President George H.W. Bush's extended state funeral began its final stages on Thursday in Houston, Texas, with the second imposing church memorial in two days – and his grandsons serving as honorary pallbearers.
About 1,200 invited guests at St. Martin's Episcopal Church included members of the 41st president's family, Houston athletes and civic leaders who knew him as a service-minded American who invested more than four decades in merging his family's values with America's.
He was 'the most gracious, most decent, most humble man I will ever know,' said George P. Bush, the late president's grandson who as the Texas land commissioner is the last current family member with a political future.
Recalling vacations with 'Gamps,' and his inspiring letters, he joked about games of horseshoes the former president would play 'among family, Secret Service or any willing head of state.'
'Power outage!' George H.W. Bush would trash-talk if any metal shoe failed to reach the post. Overshooting the mark would draw a snarky 'Woodrow Wilson!' – a chuckle at the president who famously sought a law to suppress disloyalty and absolute authority to censor the press in wartime.
And in grandfatherly playfulness, the late president often 'challenged all of the grandkids to the coveted 'First to Sleep' award,' George P. said.
President George H.W. Bush's extended state funeral began its final stages on Thursday in Houston, Texas , with the second imposing church memorial in two days
George W. Bush cries as country singer Reba McEntire sings The Lord's Prayer during the funeral for his father on Thursday
James Baker, a longtime Bush confidant who served him as White House chief of staff and secretary of state, said of the late president that 'he's been my friend and he's been my role model.' A tearful Baker embraced George W. Bush after his eulogy
Barbara Pierce Bush (pictured), one of former President George W. Bush's twin daughters, read the 23rd Psalm along with two of the late elder George Bush's other granddaughters, Elizabeth Dwen Andrews and Noelle Lucila Bush
He was 'the most gracious, most decent, most humble man I will ever know,' said George P. Bush, the late president's grandson who as the Texas land commissioner is the last current family member with a political future
Former president George W. Bush stood next to his wife Laura and Jeb Bush at the funeral service for his father George H.W. Bush on Thursday morning at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston
The flag-draped casket of former President George H.W. Bush is carried by a joint services military honor guards
A more elderly Bush confidant, James Baker, said of the late president that 'he's been my friend and he's been my role model.' Baker served Bush as White House chief of staff and secretary of state.
Tilting his head up and addressing his friend 'Jefe,' he told Bush that he was 'about to do something you always hated and that your mother always told you not to do: brag about yourself.'
Bush never gloated when the Berlin wall fell, he said, and was without a doubt 'America's greatest one-term president.'
'He was not considered a skilled speaker,' Baker said, 'but his deeds were quite elegant.'
Choking up, the man Bush called 'Bake' ended with a hat-tip to William Butler Yeats. 'Our glory, George,' he said, 'was to have had you as our president and as such a friend.'
Wednesday's awe-inspiring funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington was an unapologetic display of patriotic symbolism, with military escorts and flags of the 50 U.S. states flying above the length of the center aisle.
A church service a day later in a no-less-imposing space featured just two flags: the stars and stripes draped over Bush's casket and carried in front of it.
The church choir rendered 'This is My Country' as a worship anthem and the National Anthem with pipe organ and soprano descant. 'America the Beautiful' was sung as a congregational hymn.
About 1,000 invited guests at St. Martin's Episcopal Church included members of the 41st president's family, Houston athletes and civic leaders who knew him as a service-minded American who invested more than four decades in merging his family's values with America's
Country music singer Reba McEntire sang The Lord's Prayer at the service. On Instagram last week, she posted several photos as a tribute to the 41st president, saying he was a 'great friend' and that he 'had a great life'
After Reba's performance, the gospel quartet The Oak Ridge Boys performed Amazing Grace
Movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger (fourth from right), a former California governor, sat near the front. His bromance with the elder George Bush was well-known during his presidency
Actor Chuck Norris arrives with other guests for the funeral of President George H.W. Bush
And while Wednesday's musical centerpiece was famed tenor Ronan Tynan singing a showstopper based on Abraham Lincoln speeches, the Texas service featured the Oakridge Boys singing 'Amazing Grace' and a version of The Lord's Prayer performed by country star Reba McIntyre.
Barbara Pierce Bush, one of former President George W. Bush's twin daughters, read the 23rd Psalm along with two of the late elder George Bush's other granddaughters, Elizabeth Dwen Andrews and Noelle Lucila Bush.
Noelle is the daughter of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, George W.'s brother. Marshall Lloyd Bush, the adopted daughter of their brother Marvin, read from the Old Testament.
Former Houston Rockets stars Yao Ming and Dikembe Mutumbo were among the mourners on Wednesday, their 7-foot heights elevated above the crowd.
Movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, a former California governor, sat near the front. His bromance with the elder George Bush was well-known during his presidency.
After the funeral at the church, his casket will be taken by train 70 miles from Houston to Texas A&M in a clear-sided baggage car that hails from the golden era of railroads.
The locomotive carrying his body was painted to resemble Air Force One, and Bush joked that if it had been around during his presidency, he may have preferred to ride the rails rather than take to the skies.
'I might have left Air Force One behind,' Bush quipped during the 2005 unveiling of 4141, a blue and gray locomotive commissioned in honor of the 41st president and unveiled at Texas A&M University.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush stands next to the casket of his father, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, during his funeral service at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas, U.S.
Former president George W. Bush and his wife Laura arrive to the church on Thursday morning. On Wednesday, George W. gave a moving and tearful eulogy for his father in Washington D.C.
Houston Texans' J. J. Watt arrives at a funeral for former President George H.W. Bush
Former Houston Rockets stars Yao Ming (pictured) and Dikembe Mutumbo were among the mourners on Wednesday, their 7-foot heights elevated above the crowd
After the funeral, Bush's casket will travel by train from Houston to Texas A&M, passing through five small towns, marking his final journey to his resting place
Today, that same 4,300-horsepower machine will carry Bush's casket, along with relatives and close friends, for around 70 miles. The journey through five small Texas towns was expected to take about two and a half hours. It will deliver the casket from suburban Houston to College Station.
The train's sixth car, a converted baggage hauler called 'Council Bluffs,' has been fitted with transparent sides to allow mourners lining the tracks views of Bush's flag draped coffin.
There, a motorcade will take Bush to his presidential library at the university, where he will be laid to rest at a private ceremony next to his wife, Barbara, who died in April, and his daughter Robin, who died at age 3 in 1953.
Bush, who narrowly escaped death as a naval aviator who was shot down by Japanese forces over the Pacific Ocean in World War Two, will be buried with military honors, including a flyover by 21 aircraft from the U.S. Navy.
Bush's funeral train will be the eighth in U.S. history and the first since Dwight D. Eisenhower's body traveled from the National Cathedral in Washington through seven states to his Kansas hometown of Abilene 49 years ago. Abraham Lincoln's funeral train was the first, in 1865.
Robert F. Kennedy was never president, but he was running for the White House when he was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968.
Former President George H.W. Bush, left, joins then President-elect Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office at the White House in 2009
George H.W. Bush has begun his final journey today, as his casket will be taken by train 70 miles from Houston to Texas A&M in a clear-sided baggage car that hails from the golden era of railroads. The locomotive of the train was named 4141 and painted to resemble Air Force One
The 4,300-horsepower locomotive will carry Bush's casket, along with relatives and close friends, for around 70 miles. The journey through five small Texas towns should take about two and a half hours. It will deliver the casket from suburban Houston to College Station. Pictured: Bush in 2005 at the unveiling of the locomotive
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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