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...After the media's lengthy criticism and praise of President Reagan's political life, watching the family's sunset burial service put things into perspective for me. When Reagan's children got up to speak, they didn't talk about Reagan the President or Reagan the politician but about Reagan the husband, the father and the grandfather. Watching Nancy Reagan receive the flag from the coffin and break down crying, and then seeing her children console her, reminded me that she was mourning the loss not of a President, Governor or actor but of her husband of more than...
...production assistant in New York City and co-authored a book about the family called Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family. Instead, last year the Hemings began holding their own reunions at Monticello, complete with a sunrise graveyard service at the recently discovered slave burial site on the estate...
...recent weekday morning, a bouquet of deteriorating flowers at the base of a monument neighboring Epps’ grave is the only sign that anyone has walked through Harvard’s171-year-old burial ground near the center of Mount Auburn Cemetery...
...Shattuck proposes to present to this University for a place of burial for such officers and students of the College as may decease there and whose friends are pleased to deposit their remains at that place,” wrote Charles P. Curtis, Shattuck’s lawyer, in an April 5, 1833 letter to University President Josiah Quincy, Class...
...crowd at the mosque erupts when al-Sadr appears. At 30, he is pudgy and pale faced. He stands at the lectern draped in his burial shroud, a symbol of his determination to die for his faith. He reads his address at high speed, his head down, his body occasionally rocking from side to side. Al-Sadr speaks to the crowd with no rhetorical flourishes or demagogic appeals but makes his purpose plain just the same. He takes a swipe at the Shi'ite hierarchy, which has withheld its support for his uprising. "When I die," he says...