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.

[lainie]

That seems unbelievable.

[Howlin]

Socal, can you give Silas some information?

[proud American in Canada]

"Rush: DNC refused to have headquarters flag flown at half staff."

What???? Simply unbelievable.

[alisasny]

Ya know, if it werent for RR Patty may have showed up in a burqua.....

Really, please dont have FR live threads this week degenrate into who is snubbed and who what wears..

WE ARE BETTER THEN THAT : )

[Miss Marple]

I also remember Winston Churchill's funeral. It was in Westminster Abbey, and the coffin left London on a funeral barge down the Thames to the burial site.

[kalama]

Some of pictures are so hard to look at! I can't imagine what Nancy is going through..

[pettifogger]

I was 5 years old...and my mother had me watch the funeral and to this day I actually remember my mother crying when John John saluted the coffin...I remember it as clear as it happened yesterday

I think our 5-yr-old WILL remember; the 3-yr-old will like the horses!

[eyespysomething]

lost it - now hiding behind my monitor and sniffing quietly so noone hears me crying

[Howlin]

"the casket is being shown in Simi Valley where the trial of Rodney King was held"

Good gawd.........why don't they STOP?

BTW, the flag is at half staff at DNC now.

[michigander]

Bystanders salute as the hearse carring the flag-covered casket of former President Ronald Reagan passes
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)



The hearse carrying the remains of former President Ronald Reagan arrives at the Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., Monday, June 7, 2004. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

[Serb5150]

Post 652 will make you puke.

[alisasny]

Rush: DNC refused to have headquarters flag flown at half staff

If this is true this needs to be photographed.

[tapatio]

I was 5 years old...and my mother had me watch the funeral and to this day I actually remember my mother crying when John John saluted the coffin..

I was eight at the time and I remember the same thing.

[chambley1]

Rush: DNC refused to have headquarters flag flown at half staff

Send a dump truck load of black jelly beans up to DNC HQ and dump it at their front door.

DC Chapter - here's a protest for you next week.

[Troublemaker]

Brokaw's a jerk. Have the misfortune of seeing him in town every summer as he likes to come over to do some fishing now & then. The man is incredibly unfriendly and quite the elitist snob. You would think he would be smart enough to know to not boss around people handling your food.

[af_vet_1981]

"Rush: DNC refused to have headquarters flag flown at half staff."

What???? Simply unbelievable.

No, very believable and foolish on their part. Their best strategy right now is ...

You didn't really think I was going to give them any help. Let them make their own choices.

[Silas]

Thanks all to responding about the exact schedule. I believe that I will visit late tonight.

[Endeavor]

Martha on Fox drives me absolutely insane. Almost as insane as Dari Alexander did on Saturday afternoon. They should have left it to Linda Vester - she is really good.

[Howlin]

But listen to this: On CNN the reporter at the library is saying that a lot of the people in line for the bus are YOUNG.....and some of them said that they'd never HEARD of Reagan until this and they want to pay their respects!

Can you say 'learning curve?"

[oceanview]

what a total lie - Reagan saw the depression, he was not from a wealthy family - we need that slug Brokaw to claim he didn't know what a poor person is. This from a guy that leaves his 10 million dollar apartment and has a limo take him to lunch and to work in Manhattan every day.