Posted on 06/11/2004 2:48:04 AM PDT by ambrose
LIVE THREAD--Reagan State Funeral Ceremony: Lying in State at the Rotunda (6/11/04)
That's what I thought, too. I was out of town when the obituary first ran, so I didn't write to the Times until after I read Keller's blatant lie in the Observer. But if I had written to the Times on Sunday, I would have sent the letter to either the Letters section or the Public Editor. I wouldn't have written Keller directly, and I suspect most people would think the same thing as me. But because Keller didn't personally get the emails sent directly to him, the complaints don't register? Gimme a break.
Navy Hymn was played on C-SPAN as the casket was carried into the Church.
Thanks!
Watching the ABC News now...again amazingly positive like the service.
Yes, they were there. Al Gore, with Tipper to his left, was on the aisle and Karl Rove was behind him. I'm trying to think if he was seated right behind George H.W. Bush, or if there was another row between them. At any rate, I didn't see mugging and when Fox just replayed some of the service and the crowd-scanning shot showed them, their expressions looked engaged and normal. (this in contrast to the extremely bizarre expressions captured several times on the Clinton faces)
President Reagan would be so proud of Freepers helping tear down that leftist media wall!
I should say like they were after the service.
We have one.
America needs to stop listening to what was once called "the nattering nabobs of negativity," find the real news, and support our president.
President Reagan was a great man, and a product of his life and his times and an opportunity he was large enough -- and "American" enough -- to seize.
President George W. Bush has shown us, since 9/11, that he, too, can grow to meet the challenges. He's a patriot, and a champion of the right causes, and he has the character and substance to be "a real American President." He's risen to the occasion, and -- while the political climate has forced him into some domestic and fiscal policies I abhor -- many of us are quite proud of him.
He will be a great President, if we let him.
Someone posted, on this thread, that he was "starting to look presidential" (I could have a word or two wrong there, but you get the gist). President Bush has been looking, and acting, "Presidential" since 9/11, (many of us would argue that the date should be 01/20/01) and will make us proud if we let him.
We live in a republic, after all, and he's limited by those elected to other branches of government (from both parties!) and "public opinion" (shaped in large part by a lying liberal media elite), and don't forget that he couldn't have accomplished a damned thing if he hadn't been elected in the first place!
I'm not saying he'll match President Reagan; maybe he will, maybe he won't, maybe he can, maybe he can't. Taken as a whole, though, his contributions have been great, he's lifted America's spirit, he's restored honor and dignity to the White House, he's brought about a sharp turn in our handling of "foreign affairs" and the terrorists who want to kill us all, and he's given me some of my hard-earned money back from the IRS.
Are we just watching and gloomily wishing for the resurrection of Ronald Wilson Reagan, or are we willing to step up and help George W. Bush become another great American president?
Sorry. I don't rant much (online ;-), but today has gotten to me. I'm so proud of President Reagan, of my country, of the flag flying on my porch, and, yes, of President Bush, that I'm just not myself this week...
God bless America.
God bless President Bush.
I thank God that He's blessed us with both.
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The "Battle Hymn" was born in 1861 in the thick of the Civil War, when Julia Ward Howe visited a Union Army camp on the Potomac River. She heard the soldiers singing "John Brown's Body" and was inspired to write new verses. After publication in the Atlantic Monthly, her words quickly became the marching anthem for the Union Army.
Since then the song has mostly rested unsung in hymnals--criticized by some as inappropriately militaristic--only to be revived again in time of national crisis. In our own day that has included World War II and the civil rights movement. It was sung at the funerals of Winston Churchill and Robert F. Kennedy.
The hymn's revival now is of a piece with the spontaneous national burst of flag-waving. Everywhere we looked this weekend, we saw the flag--hanging from homes, stuck in flower pots, flapping from car windows. In a Virginia Catholic church we visited this weekend, the recessional song was "America the Beautiful," and not a soul bolted early for the exit. Half the congregation was in tears.
This can't be dismissed as simple jingoism. That much they know at ground zero in Manhattan, where one of the first things the firefighters did was raise the colors over the rubble where the twin towers once stood. Flying the flag is as much an encouragement to duty and sacrifice as it is an expression of loyalty.Surely that must be the way it was seen by the 168 New York firefighters who yesterday stepped up to accept promotions--"battlefield commissions," Mayor Giuliani called them
There were people between the Gores and Pres Bush #41 -- Gore was back quite a ways if I remember. I didn't know he was there until I saw him much later.
Here we go ... Battle Hymn ...
Very well stated and thank you from the bottom of my heart.
All this negativity on here is getting on my nerves!
I know that the Yankees' opponents don't like him, because it seems the Yankees always hit well in the seventh inning after Tynan sings -- the Twins manager last season blamed Tynan's singing taking too long for his pitcher being rusty.
chill out,,it is a private joke.
He had that look during GWB's eulogy. Acutally, I think he looked stoned.
George's eulogy was awesome!! A friend who's not a big GWB fan heard it this morning and was both moved and impressed.
Patty looked a little peeved that there was going to be another verse..LOL This song ends with huge power when done proper and that has not happened yet.
I don't think we will ever have another President like Reagan. That's not a put down to Bush, he is a good man - its the American people that have changed.
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