i think it s personal. people s lives are being messed up. we have to step in and provide hope. it s so tough in the hours and in the first few days that follow because you were saying to me you were hoping sort of that you would wake up and it will be a bad dream. i m sure you re not alone in that. the shock is giving way a little bit so the mourning process can begin. what are hearing from the folks in your church community what folks need and what they want to give? i think people are ready to jump in and they want community and want to be around each other. i think when there s somebody hurt, you help them up. do you know what i mean? i think the church community right now is saying let s do everything we can to help people walk through and make sure we are not so insulated to doing our think that we are not in the city. so we are pushing people in our church we will not create anything new. stuff on the websites and things are saying this is how can you help so go do those t
at thanksgiving. it was a marvelous experience. thousands of troops in a natural amphitheater in the sand dunes, and in case barbara bush and the president and brent scowcroft and the senior leadership of congress and we felt mighty good about this man. jon meacham, patti davis was on tv tonight, and she was talking about the mourning process for a public family. talking about her own experience with her dad and her mom. and now the bushes with the first lady and the president. there s public grieving, which you are forced to share with all of us onlookers in hd live television. imagine how intrusive any of us would find it in someone brought a single iphone to a funeral of one our family members and tried to snap a picture. and then multiply that. so i guess i m asking about
mourning process for a public family. talking about her own experience with her dad and her mom and now the bushes with the first lady and the president. there is public grieving, which you are forced to share with all of us on lookers in hd live television. imagine how intrusive any of us would find it if someone brought a single iphone to a funeral of a family member and tried to snap a picture and multiply that. i guess i m asking about their ability to proceed with what s going to be painful, private grieving. this has been their north star for three quarters of the american century. absolutely. i remember in mrs. bush s diary, she writes about both the kennedy funeral in 1963 and rfk s funeral in 1968 and
powell and norm schwartz kof and secretary baker. that was the atmosphere within which we deployed the war. then of course i had the president on the ground with me at thanksgiving. it was a marvelous experience. thousands of troops in a natural amphitheater in the sand dunes and in came barbara bush and the president. the senior leadership of congress and we felt mighty good about this man. jon meachem, patti davis was on tv and talking about the mourning process for a public family. talking about her own experience with her dad and her mom and now the bushes with the first lady and the president. there is public grieving, which you are forced to share with all of us on lookers in hd live
what we witnessed together is the beginning of the mourning process in thousand oaks, california. the very visual hearse carries the sergeant s body in this motorcade. the processional now. we will no doubt see others laid to rest in coming days now. and we ve seen so much of this heartbreak across the country recently with what happened in pittsburgh and now we mourn as a nation together. let me bring in someone special to make this part of our story have a bit more texture. the ventura county sheriff s department captain, i don t know if you can see what we can see. we are watching that processional, when a loss happens in any community and its law enforcement it touches all of you. absolutely touches all of us.