#state funeral

[saywhat-politics]

State funeral for Jimmy Carter to be held Jan. 9

The former president is expected to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol from Jan. 7-9.

Dec. 30, 2024, 8:44 AM MST / Updated Dec. 30, 2024, 3:46 PM MST

By Katherine Doyle

Former President Jimmy Carter’s official state funeral will be held Jan. 9, the same day as a national day of mourning announced by President Joe Biden on Sunday.

Biden is expected to deliver a eulogy for the former president, and on Monday he ordered federal offices closed on Jan. 9 "as a mark of respect" for Carter. The Supreme Court followed suit in the afternoon, announcing it would also be closed that day in recognition of the day of mourning.

Services honoring Carter will begin Jan. 4 and include a brief pause at his boyhood home and the family farm in Plains, Georgia, where he grew up, and a stop at the Georgia State Capitol for a moment of silence.

Carter will lie in repose at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta until Jan. 7 for mourners to pay their respects, before departing for Washington, D.C., where his remains will be carried to the U.S. Navy Memorial and then to the U.S. Capitol in a funeral procession.

[deadpresidents]

Why didn’t HW have a horse drawn carriage at his funeral procession?

Although most Presidential funerals look very similar and follow many of the same traditions established over the past 150+ years, each President tailors their individual service in their own way with personal touches. When they begin planning for their funeral (a process which begins soon after they become President and is frequently updated throughout the rest of their lives) It's almost as if there is a menu of ceremonies that they can pick and choose from as they update their funeral plans over the years, and there are often small differences in each funeral to honor certain aspects of a Presidents life. For example, as part of the music played during his procession and services, Gerald Ford requested that the fight song of his beloved alma mater, the University of Michigan, be performed. And when Ford's casket was brought into the U.S. Capitol to lie in state, instead of going directly to the Rotunda, it made brief, symbolic stops near the chamber of the House of Representatives (to honor his nearly quarter-century of service as a member of the House), as well as near the Senate chamber (to honor his brief service as president of the Senate -- one of his Constitutional duties when he was Vice President).

Even though their respective state funerals featured much of the pomp and ceremony of other Presidential funerals, George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford both chose to use the Presidential hearse for the full funeral procession to the U.S. Capitol instead of having their caskets placed on the horse-drawn caisson. In Bush's case, he made the choice because he felt the horse-drawn caisson was too slow -- which is kind of funny considering he was dead and probably didn't have any other plans. Ford used a motorcade during his funeral procession so that his casket could pass by several places that played a part in his long life and career. His motorcade passed through Alexandria, Virginia where Ford and his family lived when he first became President -- while the White House was in transition following Richard Nixon's sudden resignation, President Ford actually commuted to work at the White House every day from his family's modest suburban home. Ford's hearse also made at stop at the National World War II Memorial to honor his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

[grandmaster-anne]

HM The Queen Consort, The Princess of Wales, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and The Countess of Wessex Curtsy/bow to the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, as she leaves Westminster Abbey for the last time. -- @isaguor

[throughaglassdarkly1961]

State Funeral (2019), dir. Sergei Loznitsa

[theroyalweekly]

NEW details from Buckingham Palace on the #Queen’s #StateFuneral at @wabbey on Monday morning and committal service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, on Monday afternoon 👇🏼

Roya Nikkhah (@RoyaNikkhah) September 15

[not-mary-sue]

And now, a moment of silence for all the people lost to The Queue. They're not dead or anything, they're just going to be there for a really long time.

[magpie-69]

What I wore for my Queen's State Funeral.

I held it together until, at the end of the service at Westminster, The Piper to the Sovereign played "Sleep, Dearie, Sleep". As he played it he turned and walked away. The fading sound of the pipes brought it home that my Queen was gone. Then again, at the service at Windsor Castle, he played, "A Salute to the Royal Fendersmith," while her coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault, and again he turned and walked away and the sound of the pipes faded away. So very poignant! 💜🙏💜

19/9/22

[lexi-anastasia-astra-luna]

You know how Nitwit, I mean Charles can give himself a good start to being a king; say that the money for the funeral and crap is coming from their bank accounts. Their personal ones.

UK is in a living in crisis time. You can use all that money that would be spent on the funeral on giving extra payments to housing benefits, helping people pay their bills, for people to be able to eat, kids school lunches, education, medication (I like many can’t afford all my needed meds) etc.

She is dead. She is isn’t going to give a fuck. Use the money on the living, or the ones trying to live at least.