Posted on 06/12/2004 11:14:50 AM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper
Edited on 06/12/2004 12:09:05 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Here is a collection of the eulogies delivired by the various speakers.
Former President George Bush
Ronald P. Reagan
Michael Reagan
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
President George W. Bush
Patti Davis's eulogy
Mulroney's eulogy
Vice President Dick Cheney
Senator Ted Stevens
House Speaker Dennis Hastert
THANKS!!
Thank you....bumpin' to the top!
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Can you redirect the Patti Davis link to the following thread in order to make sure the paper doesn't take down that page? Thanks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1152921/posts
While here - if anyone checking this thread has not found the link to the beautiful "Mansions of the Lord" music from the Funeral of President Ronald Reagan, it can be heard here.
As I am not a movie goer, I had never heard that beautiful hymn or its haunting drums and melody sung and played as the President's casket was carried out of the Cathedral. It is a new "favorite".
The music, the hymns, both sung and played; the euologies; the military precision and dress; the respect and love poured out by the American people; the poignant grief of the very tiny Mrs. Reagan with her huge eyes of sadness and sorrow mixed with the arms of God upholding her; the wonderful gentle kindness and strength of the General escorting her; the witness and honor shown to the life of the President by Baroness Thatcher, especially; the riderless horse; the horse-drawn caisson; the throngs lining the streets of Washington DC and the Highways of California; the rain at the Cathedral and peaceful sunset at the Presidential Library; the flag folded so carefully and given to Mrs. Reagan; her final tears of sorrow for her beloved husband shed over that beautiful mahogany casket holding his earthly remains...and the bagpiped Amazing Grace ------ how could any week be any more profoundly moving?
There is something we say / sing in church: God be in my speaking, in my thinking, and in my dying.
God was certainly in President Reagan's dying. What a gift we have been given.
My father said his large church's service was packed today. He, a WWII Veteran thinks this week's events, perhaps like the 911 events and National Cathedral Service in which President George W Bush spoke so movingly as well, have drawn people back to God - and to a love and gratitude for our country.
I hope he is right.
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Ping for the collection.
The one for Margaret Thatcher looks different from what has been posted here the other day. It was much longer.
Just a bump to get this page going again.
Bump for those who may have missed.
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