Somber skies see Reagan home to California

[otohara]

The headline made me do it...then there's the fact that this is up on Salon.com in the news from the wires column.

June 11, 2004 | Point Magu, Calif. -- In a final, majestic hail to the chief Friday, the nation bade a lingering goodbye to Ronald Reagan at a stately service in Washington beneath marble arches and somber skies before the 40th president's flag-draped casket returned to his beloved California for a sunset burial ceremony.

The casket, accompanied by a stoic Nancy Reagan, arrived aboard a presidential jet at a Navy air station, where hundreds of well-wishers had waited for hours. A motorcade was to carry the coffin 25 miles to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley for the burial service.


The service earlier at Washington National Cathedral dropped the curtain on a week of American majesty, with dozens of world leaders, the four living ex-presidents and lifelong friends as witness.

“Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages now,”President Bush said in his eulogy, “but we preferred it when he belonged to us.”

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http://salon.com/news/wire/2004/06/11/reagan_home/index.html

[Bluebear]

1. Lingering is right!

[donhakman]

2. no pic?

[otohara]

3. Wow

this is some picture...

[Cleita]

4. What somber skies? I live about 120 miles north of there and

the skies were very blue and cloudless today. But weather aside, let's hope everything goes smoothly and this episode of our history passes sooner rather than later.

[DivinBreuvage]

5. Somber skies because God was sad

And what's with the Monkey King plagiarizing Edwin M. Stanton (Lincoln's Secretary of War) with the "Now he belongs to the ages" line? Don't these people pay speechwriters? Can speechwriters these days do anything other than steal from the past?

[Lisa]

6. gee, it brings a whole meaning to the term "pathetic fallacy"

(sombre skies and all that!)

[lanparty]

7. What "presidential jet????"

Did they fly his corpse BACK on Air Force One as well???? Or was this "Air Force 2"????