Reply #103: Agree absolutely! Was it for the cameras? Or for real? [View All]

I can't imagine going through the long day as she did, Blair House meetings, church services and having to stand out in the cold, windy drizzle at Andrews Air force Base while they moved that coffin around at a snail's pace. She could hardly make it up the steps of Air Force One for the flight back to California. I hope she got a nap.

The sunset burial was lovely, but should have been private!!! But the military precision of everything they did was a bit much. Taking 15 minutes to fold that flag, salute in slow motion and finally give her the flag.

I think the sound of a thousand shutters clicking and whirring as she broke down at the casket was utterly disgusting. But that's the way she and Ronnie planned it as was mentioned many times. So I have mixed feelings as to whether the day was a "movie"--their last production. The greatest Regan propaganda film ever made--and a national day of mourning, to boot.

If she had been alone with only family I think she would have wept at the casket for an hour.

(on edit) I hope she went back today and did so in privacy. I do feel sorry at her loss.