LIVE THREAD: Reagan Funeral - California

www.freerepublic.com | June 7, 2004

[Howlin]

Reagan family has arrived in Santa Monica to escort President Reagan's body to his library.

[Bahbah]

Mr. Reagan looks lovely, but she is so tiny!

[TontoKowalski]

I was a boy when Eisenhower died. I guess I was 8. I do remember seeing it on TV... in hindsight, my parents were vigilant in telling my sister and I that we were witnessing history. I can remember the riderless horse, and "the buggy" with the flag-draped coffin. Not much else. I don't know if it was a State Funeral or simply an honor.

Off topic, but I recall my parents letting my sister and I stay up well past bedtime to see Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon for the first time.

Same story: "Tonto, I want you to remember this, because it is a special moment in our history, and one day you'll be able to say that you saw it."

[al baby]

[Howlin]

I am so glad that that family healed.

[Wait4Truth]

God bless President Ronald Reagan and may Nancy find peace and strength. This is so moving. This makes the Democrats look even smaller than they are. I'm going to check out the Bush website. How wonderful of him to honor Reagan in this manner. President Bush admired President Reagan with all his heart.

[Peach]

I just had to come back in here to mention how pleased I am to see Patty holding her mother's hand. She looks quite devastated and is probably remembering less happy times with her parents and feeling quite guilty.

Wolfstar :-)

[chambley1]

Quips are best, President Reagan was the best at that indeed.

Since the attention span of libs is so short, quips are the best.

[cyncooper]

Lord's prayer...

[Wolfstar]

I just surfed in time to hear Tom Brokaw inform the audience how Patty used to fight with her mother.

There are times when the word hate isn't strong enough to describe what I feel for the so-called mainstream media.

[socal_parrot]

For ever and ever, amen

[mombonn]

John 11:25, 26

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Life doesn't really begin til we reach the other side!

[ken5050]

I guess, but a black suit would have been better, and the lenght is NOT appropriate..OK..I'm a curmeudgeon..

[Howlin]

I see your point though.

[hispanarepublicana]

when the President opened his eyes for the last time, they were clear, not clouded.

I, too, recall a similar incident with my father-in-law. It was about 5 or 10 minutes before he took his final breath after suffering years from Alzheimers. We were all surrounding his bed, and his grandson arrived and said "Hi, Grandpa. It's ****** (his name)." We had all been softly talking to him, but on hearing that, my father-in-law, who hadn't had any kind of an expression on his face in about a year, suddenly got the widest, happiest grin on his face and held it for a few seconds. A few minutes later, he was gone. Perhaps that smile was for his grandson, or perhaps it was because, although he hadn't had the intellect or capacity to actively reach out and hold on to the Lord's hand for years, he was so happy to see that the Lord had held on to his anyway all that time.

[Conservative4Ever]

Just let the tears flow...we are all Americans today.

Red

[Mo1]

Patty looks like she's having a hard time keeping it together

[michigander]

Former U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan casts a last glance from the window of a limousine at memorial flowers
outside a morturary, as she is driven with a hearse bearing the body of her husband, former U.S. president
Ronald Reagan, in Santa Monica, California, June 7, 2004. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson



Former U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan acknowledges a crowd of well-wishers as she prepares to leave with
the hearse bearing the body of her husband, former U.S. president Ronald Reagan, from the mortuary in
Santa Monica, California, June 7, 2004. Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters



Former first lady Nancy Reagan, wife of the 40th president of the US Ronald Reagan, and daughter Patti
Davis view a makeshift memorial in front of the funeral home in Santa Monica, California.(AFP/Jeff Haynes)



With hundreds of flags, flowers and messages in the foreground, military pallbearers carry the casket of
former President Ronald Reagan to a hearse from a funeral home in Santa Monica, Calif., Monday, June 7,
2004. Reagan's body was being taken to lie in state at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)



Steve Davis of the Santa Monica Fire Dept. salutes the hearse carrying the casket of former President
Ronald Reagan as it advances down Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, Monday, June 7, 2004. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

[Wolfstar]

Thanks, Miss Marple. I'm glad Patti reconciled with her parents some years ago. It's time for them to support their very brave mother, now.

[Serb5150]

Yes, she's an incredibly tiny woman. I had the good fortune to meet her in person at the library about a year and a half ago. When she stepped out of the limo, in heels, her perfectly done hair barely reached the top of the limo's roof.

[lainie]

Wouldn't surprise me. Let 'em. Maybe they'll learn something.