Love or loathe. Admire or detest. Respect should prevail, always.

[Stinky The Clown]

I am watching Nancy Reagan's funeral services. As I am wont to do as I have attended too many funerals to count, I am caused to feel the love and the loss of those who attended with me. When the funeral was for a loved one, a parent, the feelings differ mostly by degree. And so I am moved by this funeral as well.

Rest well, Nancy. We are all flawed, but we all deserve respect and a peaceful farewell.

[WinkyDink]

1. No, we do not. There are innumerable examples from history that deserved HELLFIRE.

Not saying she's one. Just cannot abide this attitude of "peace" towards thoroughly evil and sadistic human beings.

[Hekate]

2. Your earlier post about the evident love of the Reagans for each other was very moving...

I mean, I opposed President Reagan with all my being, but Ronnie and Nancy were in some respects like a single person. On this day, let no ill be spoken of the dead.

[LanternWaste]

3. What specifically leads you to believe this?

"we all deserve respect..."

What specifically leads you to believe this?

[Jitter65]

4. Didn't see your post until after I posted mine. Nice post. nt

[rustydog]

5. She was someone's little baby girl once, she was someone's loving mother

and she wed the man she loved. I may disagree with her political bent and her simplified outlook on momentous problems (just say no), but she was a human being, she was loved and she loved others. She will be missed by her family and friends.
May she rest in peace.

[DustyJoe]

6. human nature

Haters gonna hate

Grave dancers gonna dance

But ...

There is always a glimmer of civility and respect in a lot of humanity to offset the disrespectful.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. How can you not be moved by the words of her children, Patty and Ron

When at your death your children love you, your life matters.

[Hekate]

8. I caught part of Patty's eulogy and then Ron's ending. Yes, a complicated family...

I remember reading that the children -- all 4 of them -- were outside the bubble that was NancyRonnie, and they knew it.

It's complicated. I remember having to find the words at my own mother's funeral, and I wonder if my own daughter will ever be able to.

All the former First Ladies were there as well as Michelle, even Roslyn Carter, whose own age is now so evident (oh wait -- did Barbara Bush make it? she's another now very old). A lot of people here can't seem to grasp that, beyond what simple decency and dignity demand as regards public demeanor, all the occupants of the White House share something that no one else ever will.

[cwydro]

9. Bravo.

Pleased to k and r.

[ladyVet]

10. I can see being civil, but why even post about this non-event?

If people wouldn't make these posts, you wouldn't have to worry about something being said. She's dead, irrelevant. The end.

[uppityperson]

11. We deserve to be treated respectfully whether deserving of respect or not.

Treating someone respectfully is very different than respecting them.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. It should but that's not how the Reagans were, they held others in contempt

Let the Straight Community celebrate their own glorious heroes...