Robert F. Kennedy Funeral - Arlington National Cemetery, 1968
Posted on 08/29/2009 6:07:39 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
-PJ
Did I miss why they did this in the dark? Did anyone mention it, or is it just one of God’s mysteries?
While I personally did not care for Ted, I do feel sorry for his grandkids.
.. That is so interesting.. but was the graveside services going on after nine... I bet Nine in June the sun was still stronger than it was On August 29th.. When his brother was buried.
Kennedy was buried near his brother, John, in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia (just outside Washington, D.C.).[41] He had always maintained that he wished to be buried in Massachusetts, but his family believed that since the brothers had been so close in life, they should be near each other in death. In accordance with his wishes, Kennedy was buried with the bare-minimum military escort and ceremony. His burial at Arlington National Cemetery was the first one to ever take place at night. [42]Forty one years later, his brother, Edward received the second night burial at the cemetery.Due to a behind-schedule flight from Boston, MAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy Funeral - Arlington National Cemetery, 1968
“...his eternal life was at stake, and this is what he comes up with...”
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Liberals are convinced that, because of their ‘charitable and caring’ lives, God owes them.
-PJ
I was an eighteen year old young thing at that time and I was watching the event unfold on television. I kept telling my mother that they were never going to get there before dark. Sure enough they got into Washington after 9 P.M. so by the time they made their way to Arlington it could have even been 10 P.M. Just to check my memory I googled it and found this,
"Bobby's coffin was then taken to a train where it would travel to Washington, D.C. A train journey that should have taken only a couple of hours, took five hours.
As I wrote in my article The Funeral of Robert F. Kennedy
The train arrived in Washington just after 9pm; the trip took twice as long as it normally would have. After leaving the train, the funeral procession briefly stopped at the Lincoln Memorial where the Marine Corps Band played “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
The procession then moved on to the Arlington Cemetery. It was the only nighttime burial that has ever taken place there. Floodlights were placed around the grave and candles were distributed to the mourners. The coffin was carried to the grave site by 13 pallbearers; among them were Robert McNamara, Edward Kennedy, and Joseph Kennedy, the oldest son of Robert F. Kennedy.
There was a brief graveside service performed by Terence Cardinal Cooke, the Archbishop of New York. A flag was then folded and presented to his widow, Ethel, by John Glenn.
The majority of the mourners had left by midnight. Among those mourners was singer Bobby Darin, according to him he spent the night at the grave site. Darin had campaigned for Kennedy and had only met him a few weeks previously. In response to Robert F. Kennedy's death he wrote the song “In Memoriam.”"
http://rememberingrfk.blogspot.com/2008/06/funeral-of-robert-f-kennedy-june-8-1968.html
Thanks, Junkie...I had wondered.
(I refused to watch it, but I still wanted to know about it. Not the greatest thinking, I guess.)
;-)
That's not what I meant at all. I just wondered if she predeceased him.
Yes, you're right. He does hear. Whether he answers that prayer or not is up to Him though. Sometimes the answer is "No."
Maybe they should have started the show at 5:30 a.m.
And Satan cashes in another chip from the deal he made with Papa Joe.
How nice of them. Saves on air fare and wear and tear on the old prostate...get a three-fer.
LOL!
She attended the funeral. She wore white.
I don't know what that means in America, but in China (where my family is from) it's traditional to wear white at funerals and red for weddings.
Indeed she did.
She wore white.
She wore white to the funeral of Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
“He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.” PROVERBS 28
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