bluestateguy
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:25 PM
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I have a beef with some of these mourners |
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If I was attending a memorial service or casket viewing for a former President of the United States I would dress appropriately. I saw some kid standing in line with a T-shirt and baggy shorts; others I saw in Simi Valley were wearing baseball caps, T-shirts, jeans and shorts. Sorry to seem petty or puritanical, but these people should just stay away if they are going to dress like slobs.
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:26 PM
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1. I think you just answered your own question. |
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:27 PM
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2. I wouldn't wear proper clothes for someone like Reagan. |
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Hell...they'd be lucky if I wore clothes.
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:27 PM
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3. Crowd fillers recruited from the streets to fill the camera angle |
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:29 PM
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rather than people who live there. And let's face it: who wears formal clothes on vacation?
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:30 PM
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5. nope..it's LA...people go into nice restaurants like that |
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:40 PM
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14. True, but I think most were tourists. Everyone else was at work. |
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:30 PM
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that some of the freepers that lined up to pass the coffin yesterday were "tailgating" in the university's parking lot.
Ronnie was such a stickler for decorum that he never went to the oval office without putting a jacket on. I'm sure that he is spinning in his casket (hopefully to the "left" to undo decades of "right" spin).
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:31 PM
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7. At my father's funeral at Arlington Cemetary |
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I saw tourists callously recording my Dad's funeral like it was another D.C. spectacle. I think a lot of people treat this as pure spectacle. Some of those involved don't honor the true meaning of it.
I have a friend who wondered why they didn't open Arlington Cemetary on July 4 so people could stand on the high areas and see the fireworks. Many people just don't get what the military honors are all about, especially some chickenshit WWII draftdodger . . . Oh so excuse my French!!!
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:32 PM
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They were there to pay their respects, not to be judged.
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:38 PM
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12. If they want to pay their respects, they should be respectful |
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And dress for the occasion.
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:33 PM
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9. What's with the hooting and hollering when Nancy Reagan made an appearance |
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I realize it was in support of her but isn't there some decorum associated with these ceremonies. :shrug:
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:34 PM
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10. It's... do as I say.... |
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not do as I do...frigging scumbags!
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:35 PM
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11. I doubt if the deceased cares what anyone wears. |
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:38 PM
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13. Is putting on a tie too much to ask? |
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Edited on Wed Jun-09-04 07:40 PM by Argumentus
I'm with you all the way. I don't think you're being petty or puritanical in the least.
Is it too much to ask that when you attend a man's funeral, you shave and put on a fucking tie? Your disregard for society's conventions is all well and good -- you have a right to feel that way -- but this isn't your funeral, it's the Reagan's and his family's funeral. Show some respect, or don't bother going. (this was a generic "you", directed towards the rude bastards at the funeral, not at anyone at DU)
Personally, I'm sitting around in my underwear and a Grateful Dead baseball cap -- I never had any respect for Reagan, so I'm not going to his funeral.
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:41 PM
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15. Where's the end of the line at? I'm all dressed. |
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:42 PM
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16. I just caught the tail end of the rotunda ceremony in WA and |
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other than the military and assorted VIP's the onlookers were very casually dressed too. So it wasn't just in LA.
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Wed Jun-09-04 07:42 PM
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17. It's Disneyland for Republicans |
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