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.
Reagan truly wanted people to believe in God and just Believe, rather than belong to a particular church. How refreshing.
Yeah, I don't watch him either, except I've lost the remote and the tv is stuck on MSNBC.
(im to tired to walk across the room to change the channel.)
Many Christians when speaking to GOD are speaking of Jesus Christ...When asking for forgiveness and giving your heart to the Messiah that can reconcile you with the one true living GOD you refer to Jesus.... To me Jesus is GOD in the flesh of a human being...GOD made man in his own image
So who's image do you think that would be?
GOD is a Spirit, If GOD could speak to Moses in a form of a burning bush he surely could incarnate himself to a mortal sinless man..
"it must have been a long hot line."
It has been the horrid type of day we get in July, August. On the asphalt it was at least in the high 90's which is why I feared for those in uniform. Out my back window it got to 100 in the sun.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Remarks from Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday at the state funeral of Ronald Reagan in the Capitol Rotunda, as transcribed by eMediaMillWorks Inc.:
Mrs. Reagan, members of the president's family, colleagues, distinguished guests, members of the diplomatic corps, fellow citizens, knowing that this moment would come has not made it any easier to see the honor guard and flag draped before us and to begin America's farewell to President Ronald Reagan.
He said goodbye to us in a letter that showed his great courage and love for America. Yet for his friends and his country, the parting comes only now. And in this national vigil of mourning, we show how much America loved this good man and how greatly we will miss him.
A harsh winter morning in 1985 brought the inaugural ceremony inside of this Rotunda. And standing in this place for the 50th presidential inauguration, Ronald Reagan spoke of a nation that was hopeful, big hearted, idealistic, daring, decent and fair.
That was how he saw America, and that was how America came to know him.
There was a kindness, simplicity and goodness of character that marked all of the years of his life.
When you mourn a man of 93, no one is left who remembers him as a child in his mother's arm. Ronald Wilson Reagan's life began in a time and a place so different from our own in a quiet town on the prairie on the 6th of February, 1911.
Nell and Jack Reagan would live long enough to see the kind of man they had raised, but they could never know all that destiny had in store for the boy they called Dutch.
And if they could witness this funeral in 2004, their son, taken to his rest with the full honors of the United States, they would be so proud of all he had done with the life they gave him and the things they taught him.
President Reagan once said, "I learned from my father the value of hard work and ambition and maybe a little something about telling a story."
That was the Ronald Reagan who confidently set out on his own from Dixon, Illinois, during the Great Depression, a man who would one day speak before families and crowds with such ease and self-command.
"From my mother," said President Reagan, "I learned the value of prayer. My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks. And, in the end, everything worked out for the best."
This was the Ronald Reagan who had faith, not just in his own gifts and his own future, but in the possibilities of every life. The cheerful spirit that carried him forward was more than a disposition; it was the optimism of a faithful soul who trusted in God's purposes and knew those purposes to be right and true.
He once said, "There's no question I am an idealist," which is another way of saying, "I am an American."
We usually associate that quality with youth, and yet one of the most idealistic men ever to become president was also the oldest. He excelled in professions that have left many others jaded and self-satisfied, and yet somehow remained untouched by the worst influences of fame or power.
If Ronald Reagan ever uttered a cynical or a cruel or a selfish word, the moment went unrecorded. Those who knew him in his youth and those who knew him a lifetime later all remember his largeness of spirit, his gentle instincts and a quiet rectitude that drew others to him.
Seen now at a distance, his strengths as a man and as a leader are only more impressive. It's the nature of the city of Washington that men and women arrive, leave their mark and go their way. Some figures who seemed quite large and important in their day are sometimes forgotten or remembered with ambivalence.
Yet nearly a generation after the often impatient debates of the Reagan years, what lingers from that time is almost all good. And this is because of the calm and kind man who stood at the center of events.
We think back with appreciation for the decency of our 40th president and respect for all that he achieved. After so much turmoil in the '60s and '70s, our nation had begun to lose confidence. And some were heard to say that the presidency might even be too big for one man. That phrase did not survive the 1980s.
For decades, American had waged a Cold War and few believed it could possibly end in our own lifetimes. The president was one of those few. And it was the vision and the will of Ronald Reagan that gave hope to the oppressed, shamed the oppressors and ended an evil empire.
More than any other influence, the Cold War was ended by the perseverance and courage of one man who answered falsehood with truth and overcame evil with good.
Ronald Reagan was more than a historic figure. He was a providential man who came along just when our nation and the world most needed him.
And believing as he did that there is a plan at work in each life, he accepted not only the great duties that came to him, but also the great trials that came near the end.
When he learned of his illness, his first thoughts were of Nancy.
And who else but Ronald Reagan could face his own decline and death with a final message of hope to his country, telling us that for America, there is always a bright dawn ahead?
Fellow Americans, here lies a graceful and a gallant man.
Nancy, none of us can take away the sadness you are feeling. I hope it is a comfort to know how much he means to us and how much you mean to us as well.
We honor your grace, your own courage and, above all, the great love that you gave to your husband.
When these days of ceremony are completed, the nation returns him to you for the final journey to the West.
And when he is laid to rest under the Pacific sky, we will be thinking of you as we commend to the Almighty the soul of his faithful servant, Ronald Wilson Reagan.
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. We command no worship. We mandate no belief. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave it bereft of belief. All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief, to apply moral teaching to public questions.
I submit to you that the tolerant society is open to and encouraging of all religions. And this does not weaken us; it strengthens us, it makes us strong. You know, if we look back through history to all those great civilizations, those great nations that rose up to even world dominance and then deteriorated, declined, and fell, we find they all had one thing in common. One of the significant forerunners of their fall was their turning away from their God or gods.
actually, the thing I fear most is that we may be looking at the funeral of the last great US President. The last man to have the life experiences he had. The country is so divided now, changing so quickly demographically. Our political system cannot produce such a man again I fear.
Nancy waving from the car was something.
My word. What love.
It LOOKED really humid. And as a Floridian, I can recognize that.
We were in DC for 4th of July a few years back. I remember the Park Service was spraying people down and the kids who were 2 and 4 at the time ate about a thousand popsicles each.
What a lovely quote. Thank you
I believe today's ceremony was called the "State Funeral." So it would seem to be a funeral.
WRONG - This IS a state funeral. The religious funeral is Friday.
Well, seeing as Christ hadn't yet come when Abraham and Moses were around, it would have been difficult to refer to Him in prayer!
That's why I love her. LOL. She pretty much speaks her mind.
Enough with the comparisons of Stevens' speech to the nonsense that went on at the Wellstone rally.
There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, that remotely approaches that level and it is a disgrace and insulting to say such.
Stevens had his say as he was entitled to and it might not have been everybody's cup of tea, but there was not one thing inappropriate or wrong with it.
Period.
If people are fearing an avalanche of others coming out of the woodwork to echo Stevens rather than Cheney, relax. The Stevens speech is being blown WAY out of proportion and it is ridiculous. But invoking the Wellstone event is sickening.
Yeah I know. Like defeating that communist dictator was a bad thing. I'll bet the people of Nicaragua don't fault the Reagan administration for Iran-Contra.
Hope you make it to Scarborough,no sharp instruments close I hope.
I love it. Will have to keep it handy, parents voted for Clinton in '96 and Gore in '00. My previously apolitical brother told me Sunday night that the only way he wouldn't vote for Bush is if he didn't vote at all, and he's only considering that because he thinks Maine will go 65-35 or so for Kerry.
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