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The rest of the pallbearers would take the second carriage. [19] Honorary pallbearers are arranged in a similar manner following the active pallbearers. [20] Pallbearers’ carriages would leave a specific place at a certain time in case those who wish to ride to the church or house could meet at that area. [21]
A military chaplain for family members. A casket draped in the flag of the United States and as a pall. 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.
Honorary pallbearers included Paul Bern, Hunt Stromberg, Irving Thalberg, Louis B. Mayer, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Tod Browning, Lew Cody, and Ramon Novarro. The U.S. Marine Corps provided a chaplain and Honor Guard for his funeral. While his funeral was being conducted, all MGM studios and offices observed two minutes of silence. [15] [18]
Samuel L. Jackson was a sophomore at Morehouse College in Atlanta when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.
President George H. W. Bush lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda on December 3, 2018. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and other civilians who have rendered distinguished ...
Shane MacGowan, lead singer of the Anglo-Irish band The Pogues, was honored at a funeral on Friday in County Tipperary, Ireland, attended by stars including Johnny Depp and Nick Cave, after he ...
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.
Soldiers from the Hungarian Defence Forces form a guard of honour at a welcome ceremony for US president George W. Bush's visit to Hungary, 2006. A guard of honour (Commonwealth English), honor guard (American English) or ceremonial guard, is a group of people, typically drawn from the military, appointed to perform ceremonial duties – for example, to receive or guard a head of state or ...