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‘Our Hearts Ache With His Loss’

The late President George H. W. Bush’s Capitol Rotunda ceremony was a glimpse of grace in an era that has been devoid of it.
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The ceremony for the late president began at the Capitol as the sun set. A military guard carried his American-flag-draped casket into the Rotunda, where current and former lawmakers, Cabinet officials, Supreme Court justices, and his family stood waiting.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered the opening eulogy for George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, three days after he had died at his home in Houston. “We stand with

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