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National Day of Mourning
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dstieger Offline
#1 Posted: Mon, Dec 3 2018, 2:57 PM EST
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National Day of Mourning ....ok...whatever....maybe a little hyperbolic, but all right....Federal Holiday?!? Really?? Who's paying for that?
Ewok126 Offline
#2 Posted: Mon, Dec 3 2018, 3:08 PM EST
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Native Americans of New England? Anxious
delta1 Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Dec 4 2018, 1:31 PM EST
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Didn't this happen when other Presidents died? Seem to recall similar declarations when Nixon, and Reagan and Ford died...
Abrignac Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Dec 4 2018, 2:34 PM EST
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If a nation doesn’t choose to mourn a deceased what does it say about that nation?
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#5 Posted: Tue, Dec 4 2018, 3:19 PM EST
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I have no problem mourning the death, but the holiday is not needed and is out of place.
DrafterX Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Dec 4 2018, 3:46 PM EST
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Ya, January 2nd woulda been a good day for him to die... Mellow
Speyside Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, Dec 4 2018, 5:00 PM EST
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I am not sure how a day off is symbolic of mourning for 41.
Abrignac Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Dec 4 2018, 5:53 PM EST
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ZRX1200 wrote:
I have no problem mourning the death, but the holiday is not needed and is out of place.


I agree. One doesn’t need a day off to mourn.
delta1 Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, Dec 4 2018, 6:19 PM EST
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Pretty sure the National Day of Mourning for Reagan and Ford were federal holidays. We, as public employees in CA, also got the day off.

I don't think it's big deal...how often does a past President die?
Mr. Jones Offline
#10 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 12:19 AM EST
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Not me...I gotta work to stay alive...
I'll mourn while I'm dumpster diving, trash picking,
Metal scrapping and lotto ticket trash picking.

I don't get federal holidays...

Unless???
The FBI RETURNS MY $1+ MILLION IN CASH...
( and believe it or not...I could see G.H.W.B. decreeing just that for me, he never liked the FBI...he was a stand up guy)
tailgater Offline
#11 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 9:21 AM EST
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delta1 wrote:
...how often does a past President die?


Just once.
rfenst Offline
#12 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 11:22 AM EST
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I have no problem with a day of mourning.
delta1 Offline
#13 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 12:37 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
...how often does a past President die?


tailgater wrote:
Just once.




see?
frankj1 Offline
#14 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 1:55 PM EST
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tailgater wrote:
Just once.


except for President Elfego Baca
RMAN4443 Offline
#15 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 2:00 PM EST
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That's what I was thinking too....Anxious Think
frankj1 Offline
#16 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 2:20 PM EST
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a couple of TV generation brats.
frankj1 Offline
#17 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 2:28 PM EST
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http://www.westernclippings.com/remember/elfegobaca_doyouremember.shtml

the nine lives of Elfego Baca
frankj1 Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 2:31 PM EST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVM1VgppxYw

and the theme song
teedubbya Offline
#19 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 6:43 PM EST
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I miss the days when the person in the office respected the office and we demanded it. We demanded it even a few years ago when bammy did some things felt to be beneath the office (right or wrong). Now we accept what would have been unacceptable a short time ago.

Godspeed GHWB. Regardless of politics you did it right.
frankj1 Offline
#20 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 6:46 PM EST
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teedubbya wrote:
I miss the days when the person in the office respected the office and we demanded it. We demanded it even a few years ago when bammy did some things felt to be beneath the office (right or wrong). Now we accept what would have been unacceptable a short time ago.

Godspeed GHWB. Regardless of politics you did it right.

I especially like the line attributed to him..."they are my opponents, not my enemies".
delta1 Offline
#21 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 6:56 PM EST
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were those the days when America was great?
teedubbya Offline
#22 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 6:58 PM EST
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He put the country before his political well being. It cost him reelection and billy bob got credit for the bush economy turn around. He never said a thing and embraced the clintons rather than vilifying them. GWB same deal in that regard. I took issue with some of his policies but he wasnt evil or the enemy at any time. I hope we return to civility and not rewarding the fringe.
frankj1 Offline
#23 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 7:10 PM EST
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didn't feel the same way about President Cheney though...
delta1 Offline
#24 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 7:13 PM EST
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Sounds like GHWB, and America, were pretty great then...I respected 41 ... thought he represented our country well, though I disagreed with some of his politics...

if Trump really wants to make us great again, he could study GHWB...
frankj1 Offline
#25 Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2018, 7:36 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
Sounds like GHWB, and America, were pretty great then...I respected 41 ... thought he represented our country well, though I disagreed with some of his politics...

if Trump really wants to make us great again, he could study GHWB...

not gonna happen, wouldn't be prudent.
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