Planes, trains, and automobiles or how long does a funeral take?

[NightWatcher]

This is just obscene. How long are we to slobber over this guy? Now his corpse is taking a train tour of the state. He liked jumping out of airplanes too, does that mean...

Ok, that I'd tune in for.

[HipChick]

1. Meh...I'm not going to begrudge another day

above ground..

[Retrograde]

2. RFK's body was flown to NY for his funeral

then taken by train to the DC area for burial. There's a film of the train's progress (recently shown at the SF Museum of Modern Art: the train managed to bypass most of the state RFK represented).

Lincoln's funeral procession was even more elaborate. His body was taken on a tour of most of the cities of the Union states where it was on display in an open casket for a few days in each. A team of undertakers went along, since the body needed constant, um, maintenance. By comparison Bush is having an understated funeral.

[BannonsLiver]

4. But back then there were no TVs with only one channel

[FSogol]

3. Turn off your tv. n/t

[HAB911]

5. I'm certain when they put him on the train

he sat up and said, "OK! Enough of this shit!"

[Sneederbunk]

6. Will be very upset if we don't see lowering into grave and backfilling.

[SeattleVet]

7. They hauled that S.O.B. Reagan's corpse all around the country.

All that, when all they really had to do was flush twice.

[panader0]

8. Let's see---load the body into an ambulance. drive it to the airport.

Load the body on a plane, fly it to DC. Put it in another hearse, put it on
display. Then load it up again and drive it to the National Cathedral.
Load it up again, fly it back to Texas. Display it again, load it on a train, then drive it again
to College Station.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211514114

[malaise]

9. I have always wondered if the body I actually in the casket or back at the funeral home

How would anyone know?

[zeusdogmom]

10. Out of line

We are better than this type of comment.

[Iggo]

11. Not me.

I stayed quiet and respectful for the wake.
I stayed quiet and respectful for the funeral.

He wasn't my friend.
I didn't like him.

I'm done.