George HW Bush casket arrives in Washington before state funeral

Crew carried out ‘Special Air Mission 41’Wednesday declared day of mourning for former presidentHis face etched with grief, former president George W Bush watched on Monday as his father’s flag-draped coffin was placed on the Lincoln catafalque to lie in state at the US Capitol in Washington.The 43rd president, now a son in mourning, blinked hard as George HW Bush’s casket was carried into the Capitol rotunda at sunset by uniformed officers. His wife, Laura, kept her arm linked through his for most of the 40-minute ceremony.Bush died last Friday at the age of 94. He was the longest-lived president in American history and the last of the second world war generation.The Bush family gathered in the Capitol rotunda, replete with statues of Bush’s Republican contemporaries, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, and surrounded by diplomats and members of Donald Trump’s administration, the US Congress, the military and the supreme court, including Justice Clarence Thomas, a controversial Bush nominee. Continue reading…
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