Soul and it is him was impossible to put that connection into words. Thank you, daddy. Heres a letter to express my gratitude to you for a lifetime of lessons, and memories and blessings. Recently he was my recently recently come you said my handwriting was getting too small. So like in recent times, i would like to read this note of thanks allowed. Except today daddy, all of these people have gathered to celebrate your live so its not just you and me. I hope as always to make you proud. Dear dad, over the past week, baltimore and the nation in the have celebrated your life and your contributions to our collective humanity. You were so many things to so many people. You touched so many lives. And that is because yours was one of not only duty but also of service and compassion. You truly saw people. And they saw you. No matter their lot in life or politics. No matter anything that made them different from you. You often said to me, thank you for just being you. You were the gift and i
When this is the 37 years of my live. In the 37 years of his live of public service. Our connection was and remains one of heart, and spirit and soul and it is almost impossible that connection indoors. But in people grateful for it. And today i just to see thank you daddy. Heres a letter to express my gratitude to you for a lifetime of lessons, and memories and blessings. Recently he was my hand writing is getting is it too small. So like in recent times, i would like to read this note of thanks allowed. Except today daddy, all of these people have gathered to celebrate your live so its not just you and me. I hope this always can make you proud. Dear dad, over the past week, baltimore and the nation in the world has celebrated your live and your contributions to our collective humanities. You know so monday things to so monday people. You touched about so monday lives. Thats because your was one not only of duty and service but one of compassion another. You truly saw people. And they
And today i just to see thank you daddy. Heres a letter to express my gratitude to you for a lifetime of lessons, and memories and blessings. Recently he was my hand writing is getting is it too small. So like in recent times, i would like to read this note of thanks allowed. Except today daddy, all of these people have gathered to celebrate your live so its not just you and me. I hope this always can make you proud. Dear dad, over the past week, baltimore and the nation in the world has celebrated your live and your contributions to our collective humanities. You know so monday things to so monday people. You touched about so monday lives. Thats because your was one not only of duty and service but one of compassion another. You truly saw people. And they saw you. No matter their lack of live and politics no matter anything that made them different from you, you often said to me, thank you for just being you. You were the guest. And i have much to be grateful for. And while you were c
[organ music playing] is we remain standing, we prepare now for the wharq servant, theublic honorable Elijah Eugene cummings. It shall be done in a few draping ofter the the coffin by the honor guard. [horn sounds] amen. Was a cummings churchman. We sing to the glory of thgod this morning that opening hymn that meant so much to him. Bishop thomas you may be seated. Let us pray. Lord, we thankyou for your servant, Elijah Eugene cummings, assiduously, sagacious, and with integrity to preserve and protect the sacrosanct founding document of this country, from enemies both foreign and domestic. Lord, we thank you for one who stayed the same wherever he was as he ironically embodied kiplings command to walk with kings yet not lose the common touch. For ruthe praise you and robert cummings. You, thatt, we bless you lived in him, spoke through him, and strengthened him to do the work of kingdom building in the guise of a congressman and committee chair. Father, whereas we come to pay rose tha
And even better good to have those spectacular authors like David Mccullough sitting on this stage right here with all of us. [applause] i dont have to say this the most celebrated living historian of the american. [applause] and to take us through the ogermantown the building of panama canal truman or adams and the americans then has been given the president ial medal of freedom which is even better than honor. Excuse me and you have been writing about america. Your trajectory of 150 years since the revolution to Charles Lindbergh and to be on. Is there a theme quick. Yes. I now see it and some things you do gain as time goes thousand now see almost all of my books of americans who set out to accomplish Something Worthy that they knew would be difficult and going to be more difficult than they expected and who did not give up and learned from their mistakes and to achieve their purpose in the first place. But that is to increase our whpacity for gratitude for those who went before us