On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 17:43:34 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:

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.


They had Pennsylvania avenue torn up on sunday for the procession and
they did not get started putting it back together until tuesday,
since, as you say thursday and friday were holidays the whole week was
shot.