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Fri, 06-11-2004 - 11:26am
ok please don;t throw tomatoes at me here, I am a very senstive person, I am patrotic but I am not getting this whole week long, close down post office thing going on. I mean he was 93 not to metion he had alztimers so is this all jsut because he was a president or what am I
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Fri, 06-11-2004 - 11:36am
let me also clairfy, I am watching right now and it is Just Beautiful!! The place is beautiflu and the way they are doingit is beautiful,, it just all seems like an advasion of privcey,, I mean there are total starangers there acting as if they knew the man personally, wouldn't the family just want to greive in privcey?,,
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Fri, 06-11-2004 - 11:46am
Kim, IMHO President Reagan was a showman, and I would

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Fri, 06-11-2004 - 1:25pm
Let's not forget that this is also an election year, and unfortunately politicians will sink their claws into any way to pump themselves up. On another note, I grew up with Pres. Reagan during the last half of my childhood and think he was a leader of great character and moral standing. Putting aside the "showmanship" part of the funeral, I think it's a tribute to a great former leader of our country, showing he and his family, even in death, the respect that we still carry for him. That's my 2 cents ;)

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Fri, 06-11-2004 - 3:58pm
I did not know the post offices are closed?
I do think that they are going overboard with all this, but he did want this when he died.
I do think they should back off a bit and let Mrs. Regan have some time to grieve without all the cameras and have a moment of privacy to mourn him with her family.
I hate the media and how they have to be there every second and how us americans think we should see it all.

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Sat, 06-12-2004 - 6:15pm

It was a "State Funeral"--I think that's the title. Offered to presidents when they enter office as a way of saying thanks. The funeral is laid out in a 300+ page document, down to seating charts. Yes, it does seem a bit much, but Ronald Reagen gave so much to this country. He gave his family, Nancy, his thoughts, and he fought for what he felt the country needed.


He was the 40th President, a piece of history. The funeral was a close to that part in history, and very well done. Though it was lengthy, private funerals have a wake, ceremony, then burial. This was similar -- on a larger much larger scale -- but they took him to Washington so that the country (who all felt they knew him, and were touched by him) could pay their respects and say Goodbye.


It was wonderful to see the country come together again. Though it may have seemed political, the same thing would have happened if a Democrat was in office.


Debbie

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