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There's something very emotive about music which gets to me. I frequently mist up at Sunday church services when I hear certain songs and really think about what's been done for me.

So, I found the music during the National Cathedral service very powerful. The "Battle Hymn of the Republic" always gets to me anyway (it's a picture of Christ takin' care of business- "every knee shall bow and tongue confess" that He is Lord), but it was particularly moving at the funeral service with the choir and orchestra strings. A real tear-jerker!

One of the most poignent images of the week for me was video of a little uniformed Cub Scout in the Capitol rotunda saluting President Reagan's casket. He used the Cub Scout hand salute. In my mind I pictured Reagan scopping him up into a one-armed hug while handing him a handful of jelly beans!

I'll miss Ronaldus Magnus. Well done, good and faithful servant......