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What an awful experience, gringo. I wonder if/hope they were able to honor him stateside.
The men and women who do this job train hours and hours and hours, over and over, to get the movements right. But we are human, and sometimes we do make mistakes.
The pinnacle of this tradition is with the Presidential funerals like JFK and Reagan. I'm still amazed that the same color guard carried the flag all the way from where the Caisson was unloaded all the way to the Capitol, and into the Rotunda, with no swapping at all. Incredible.
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"In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard. It's - and it's hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it's necessary work. We're making progress. It is hard work."
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