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Secondly, they will also be notified on where they are able to sit during the funeral service and during then the casket would be carried. Thirdly, pallbearers are carrying the casket to one's final resting area after the funeral. Depending on the tradition, pallbearers would either carry the coffin on their shoulders or by their waist.
A casket team serving as honor guards in a ceremonial role over the remains and as pallbearers. For funerals for an enlisted non-commissioned officer of E-9 rank and officers, the casket is transported via a horse-drawn limbers and caissons. For all other funerals, the casket is transported using a hearse.
A pall (also called mortcloth or casket saddle) is a cloth that covers a casket or coffin at funerals. [1] The word comes from the Latin pallium (cloak), through Old English. [2] A pall or palla is also a stiffened square card covered with white linen, usually embroidered with a cross or some other appropriate symbol.
High school students at University of Detroit Jesuit School and Catholic Memorial in Boston serve as pallbearers for military veterans who died homeless.
Kennedy's body was brought back to Washington after his assassination. Early on November 23, six military pallbearers carried the flag-draped coffin into the East Room of the White House, [1] where he lay in repose for 24 hours. [2] [3] Then, his flag-draped coffin was carried on a horse-drawn caisson to the Capitol to lie in state.
Reporters had to serve as pallbearers. The photos below also show scenes from inside the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository and from outside Parkland Hospital, where Kennedy was rushed.
The ragtag members of the Kennedy clan turned out Monday for the funeral of Ethel Kennedy — the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, and the last link to the family's days of "Camelot" in the White House.
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.