I have a beef with some of these mourners

[bluestateguy]

If I was attending a memorial service or casket viewing for a former President of the United States I would dress appropriately. I saw some kid standing in line with a T-shirt and baggy shorts; others I saw in Simi Valley were wearing baseball caps, T-shirts, jeans and shorts. Sorry to seem petty or puritanical, but these people should just stay away if they are going to dress like slobs.

[freetobegay]

1. I think you just answered your own question.

[Lestat]

2. I wouldn't wear proper clothes for someone like Reagan.

Hell...they'd be lucky if I wore clothes.

[Racenut20]

3. Crowd fillers recruited from the streets to fill the camera angle

[supernova]

4. Probably tourists

rather than people who live there. And let's face it: who wears formal clothes on vacation?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. nope..it's LA...people go into nice restaurants like that

[Cleita]

14. True, but I think most were tourists. Everyone else was at work.

:-)

[lapfog_1]

6. I'm absolutely sure

that some of the freepers that lined up to pass the coffin
yesterday were "tailgating" in the university's parking lot.

Ronnie was such a stickler for decorum that he never went to
the oval office without putting a jacket on. I'm sure that
he is spinning in his casket (hopefully to the "left" to undo
decades of "right" spin).

[demnan]

7. At my father's funeral at Arlington Cemetary

I saw tourists callously recording my Dad's funeral like it was another D.C. spectacle. I think a lot of people treat this as pure spectacle. Some of those involved don't honor the true meaning of it.

I have a friend who wondered why they didn't open Arlington Cemetary on July 4 so people could stand on the high areas and see the fireworks. Many people just don't get what the military honors are all about, especially some chickenshit WWII draftdodger . . . Oh so excuse my French!!!

[MrChupon]

8. Bleh who cares

They were there to pay their respects, not to be judged.

[Bake]

12. If they want to pay their respects, they should be respectful

And dress for the occasion.

Bake

[Norbert]

9. What's with the hooting and hollering when Nancy Reagan made an appearance

I realize it was in support of her but isn't there some decorum associated with these ceremonies. :shrug:

[PaDUer]

10. It's... do as I say....

not do as I do...frigging scumbags!

[Catherine Vincent]

11. I doubt if the deceased cares what anyone wears.

[Nevernose]

13. Is putting on a tie too much to ask?

I'm with you all the way. I don't think you're being petty or puritanical in the least.

Is it too much to ask that when you attend a man's funeral, you shave and put on a fucking tie? Your disregard for society's conventions is all well and good -- you have a right to feel that way -- but this isn't your funeral, it's the Reagan's and his family's funeral. Show some respect, or don't bother going. (this was a generic "you", directed towards the rude bastards at the funeral, not at anyone at DU)

Personally, I'm sitting around in my underwear and a Grateful Dead baseball cap -- I never had any respect for Reagan, so I'm not going to his funeral.

[elvisbear]

15. Where's the end of the line at? I'm all dressed.

[Cleita]

16. I just caught the tail end of the rotunda ceremony in WA and

other than the military and assorted VIP's the onlookers were very casually dressed too. So it wasn't just in LA.

[Cronus Protagonist]

17. It's Disneyland for Republicans

They ARE dressed appropriately.

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