Author Image: Julie Hirschfeld Davis

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A President?s Passing: David Hobby

When former President Ronald Reagan?s caisson passed by me on its way to the Capitol Rotunda in
Washington in June, the thousands of mourners around me became eerily silent. Then a spontaneous
wave of applause swept through the crowd. It was heartening to see love and admiration overcome
the rigid protocol of a state burial.
District worker Marvin Fisher places a flag on a lamppost on Constitution Avenue. Up to 5,000 flags are being placed along the procession route.
Soldiers surround an Iraqi detainee in this photo obtained by The New Yorker, said to have be taken in December 2003, at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.
Soldiers surround an Iraqi detainee in this photo obtained by The New Yorker, said to have be taken in December 2003, at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.
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