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With Kennedy, Pusey said he "had a sense of slowly becoming one of his friends, though I was never an intimate friend, still I am sure we got on very well." Pusey felt honored, he said, when he was asked to march behind the President's coffin in his funeral...
...aware of tears flowing hard. Eventually I had to restrain myself from sheer bawling. I knew objectively that I was sitting there alive and well in a room in Upper Manhattan, but subjectively the sensation of death was as vivid as if I were looking into my own coffin...
...canonization ceremonies, accordingly, were lavish: a three-hour liturgy climaxing four days of celebration. Nine Orthodox bishops, in jeweled crowns and brocaded robes, presided. Pilgrims from all over the U.S. jammed the tiny wooden church in Kodiak. At the end of the nighttime liturgy, St. Herman's wooden coffin was borne out of the church and around it followed by a long line of worshipers bearing candles...
...could some day be fighting a real war. Another commercial has an Idaho woman recounting the hardships brought on her family by war-stoked inflation. A series of print ads is also being mailed free to antiwar groups, which pay for their publication in local newspapers. A flag-draped coffin is depicted in one ad with the headline...
...British military patrol froze in momentary disbelief. Down one street in the Belfast working-class district around Newtownards Road came the funeral procession of James McCurrie, one of six Protestants killed during a weekend of fighting between Ulster's two religious factions. Down an intersecting street came the coffin, weeping widow and keening friends of Henry McIlhone, the riot's only Catholic victim. The British soldiers quickly detoured McCurrie's cortege, but not before the two groups of mourners had caught sight of one another. There were jeers, fist shakings and muffled epithets like "Bloody Prods...