: A Stirring Send-Off For the Iron Lady – And No One Missed the Obamas

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A Stirring Send-Off For the Iron Lady – And No One Missed the Obamas

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"..this morning’s funeral for Lady Thatcher in London was a splendid
and memorable affair, which did her memory, and her country, proud. It
was a moving, dignified and pitch-perfect occasion: unmistakably
British, and a fitting send-off for the country’s greatest post-war
prime minister.

Big Ben fell silent – for the first time since the funeral of wartime
leader Winston Churchill – and tens of thousands of admirers lined the
streets to applaud Lady Thatcher’s coffin...

... Lady Thatcher’s granddaughter, Amanda, read from Ephesians chapter
6 (in a soft but unmistakeable Texas accent – she’s the daughter of
Lady Thatcher’s son Mark and his American first wife),....

... the Washington Post, rather optimistically, had reported that
protestors were expected to ‘line the streets’, but there were barely
enough of them to line a taxi stand...many of the louts and
“activists” who have been filmed drinking and dancing on the streets
of London and elsewhere in the past few days forgot to set their
alarms, and slept through the whole thing....

...early on in the proceedings there were reports of objects being
thrown at the funeral procession, but it turned out the only things
that were thrown were flowers...."

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You might also find this article published in the UK appropriate:

"A moving funeral, but Britain is now a country where behaviour that
was once unthinkable is now routine"

http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/