Posted on 06/09/2004 1:36:48 PM PDT by Howlin
Arrival at Andrews Air Force Base scheduled for 5 P.M. EDT.
Beginning of procession: 16th and Constitution at 6:00 P.M.
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The procession begins at 16 th Street and Constitution Avenue with the ceremonial transfer of remains of former President Ronald Reagan from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson for the processional to the Capitol. The casket transfer will take place at 6 p.m. and caisson continues east with formal military escort.
The public will be able to pay final respects while the remains lie in state in the Capitol rotunda from 7:00 p.m. through Friday, June 11, 2004 at 9:30 a.m.
I'm sure he thinks he's at some Georgetown happy hour
Mine too .....
I wish we were there, too. :)
BUT I'm not! Quit taking up valuable space in my 13in TV!
Other than that, and the occasional open mike, Fox is doing an outstanding job.
LMAO!!! And I truly mean it!!
Inside the Capitol seems strangely airless compared to the outside.
It's because those creatures have sucked up all the oxygen in the Rotunda.
Yes, it does; and you're too young to know just how happy that makes the rest of us!
It's not Bill or Hillary's. It does not belong to Daschle or Pelosi. Not owned by Gore or silly screaming leftist presidential candidates. It does not belong to Nader or poverty pimps like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. And it's absolutely not John Kerry's.
We see it, the heart of America on the streets of Washington today. It's our heart. A wholesome and good heart. A kind heart. A gentle heart.
That heart beats in the chests of most good and decent Americans. It certainly beat in Ronald Reagans chest. It's a heart that cannot be stopped. No matter what the left does.
Today the heartless see America. It never went away. Never will.
They showed in on MSNBC -- someone of their crew knew something about the flyover because they had been saying where it would occur and their cameras went into the sky to catch the first group and finally the last group with the missing man!
The last time we had a state funeral was for JFK.
I was only 7 years old and I remember each grainy black and white TV image.
HERE come the jets...flights of 4 each..they are ROARING across a cloud free sky...there are SO MANY people lining the street, looks like 10 deep or so. People are running behind the crowd to get a glimpse of the parade going by.
CSPAN has much better microphones posted along the route. You can hear the military commands and the click of their kickplated shoes.
If you haven't been to the Capitol...standing at the foot of the stairs all you see is the dome and the wide expanse of the buildings stretching to the right and left...now the Honor Guard is stationed on the stairs every three or four steps, waiting...
In the long TV shots, you can see the humidity in the air...and the shadows are lengthening now as the sun is lowering itself in the sky.
Here comes the caisson, more people applauding as it passes, odd to hear applause, but it's a way for us to say Thanks to the Gipper one last time...
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ROFL....Sorry, but Kerry's voting record and stances AGAINST President Reagan will SHOW OTHERWISE....NEXT laugh, please.
I see little tommy dasshole is chuckling in the rotunda
They keep interrupting for tornado and flash flood warnings around here.
How RUDE!
I saw the Congressmen inside but I didn't see Kerry's cameraman. Does he a a special place?
As I was watching the flyover on tv, about 6 F/A-18's flew by here, scared the cr*p outta me. LOL
7:30CDT on CSPAM. 8-)
Just saw Dashole laughing his buns off in the Capitol. Pelosi, to her credit, was somber.
Fox is saying that everybody who is on the Mall is now rushing to get in line for the viewing. Thousands and thousands and thousands.......is what he said.
They are calculating the actuarial life expectancy tables of x-u-know-who.
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