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The funeral was today...
Oct. 21st, 2003 08:36 pm...and I'm holding up.
I ran into a few folks I hadn't seen at the viewings I'd attended. Some of them were friends of the family I hadn't seen in a couple of years.
It was a beautiful ceremony. My grandfather, a practicing Catholic, got a wonderful Catholic funeral mass. After which we went to the cemetary where he was set up in a plot next to his late father. The local Veterans Association (my grandfather served in WWII) had a 21-gun salute, after which they presented my mom with the flag that had been draped over his coffin and the shells from the salute. The standard stuff, for the most part.
Afterwards the funeral guests got together at a local restaurant, where someone from the state capital read a commendation they'd prepared for my grandfather (who'd been a part of the legislature in some form or another for years, even spending a couple of years as a Senator himself).
I really can't think of much in particular to say, to be honest with you. So I'll just end it here.
I ran into a few folks I hadn't seen at the viewings I'd attended. Some of them were friends of the family I hadn't seen in a couple of years.
It was a beautiful ceremony. My grandfather, a practicing Catholic, got a wonderful Catholic funeral mass. After which we went to the cemetary where he was set up in a plot next to his late father. The local Veterans Association (my grandfather served in WWII) had a 21-gun salute, after which they presented my mom with the flag that had been draped over his coffin and the shells from the salute. The standard stuff, for the most part.
Afterwards the funeral guests got together at a local restaurant, where someone from the state capital read a commendation they'd prepared for my grandfather (who'd been a part of the legislature in some form or another for years, even spending a couple of years as a Senator himself).
I really can't think of much in particular to say, to be honest with you. So I'll just end it here.
