On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 4:47:46 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 07:35:22 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote:



"devnull" wrote in message
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On 12/5/18 5:47 AM, micky wrote:
All federal offices are closed todayin the US.

Is that normal for the day of a president's funeral? Or is it a stunt
by Stumpie to a) to make it look like he respected Bush,


President Bush is a true war hero.

So was JFK, but I dont recall that happened when he as buried.
I do recall his little kid being told to salute as the corpse went by tho.

Jesus, JFK's funeral lasted a week and the whole damned city was shut
down. (I lived there and went to school a block from the White House
in 1963)


Idk what the schools did, but JFK was assassinated on a Friday and buried at Arlington 3 days later, on Monday. That's 3 days, mostly a weekend, not a week. Thursday was Thanksgiving, so the schools would have been closed thur and fri for that.




I am also not quite sure how he was a war hero. If he was John
McGillicutty he would have been court marshaled for insubordination,
hazarding his vessel and conduct unbecoming. When he was sitting there
in the dark with his engines off he was disobeying a direct order and
2 of his crew members paid the ultimate price for it.
My father was in Naval intelligence after the war and he used to spit
at the TV whenever he heard that PT109 bull****.