What Presidential funeral did you get the most emotional?

[Passepartout]

What Presidential funeral did you all get the most emotional? I probably got emotional with Nixon & Reagan. Remember crying when Nancy Reagan went to her husband's coffin and cried so much with her children by her side. Oh that was so heartbreaking.

[Nomad Broncofan]

I didn't get emotional but I remembered R.R. more because I was born in 73 and don't remember Nixon or Ford.

[DevilSpawn]

None because quite frankly, those who died during my life I either don't remember as president or didn't really care for as president.

I do know that if I was alive during The Great Depression & WWII, I would've wept for Franklin Roosevelt. He's my favorite president along with his cousin Teddy and Abe Lincoln.

And William McKinley because he's on the $500 dollar bill.

[CinnaMunMun]

I'm too young to really know much more than what the history books say. It was saddening, but really they were strangers to me.

[WhoDeyBengals]

None because quite frankly, those who died during my life I either don't remember as president or didn't really care for as president.

I do know that if I was alive during The Great Depression & WWII, I would've wept for Franklin Roosevelt. He's my favorite president along with his cousin Teddy and Abe Lincoln.

And William McKinley because he's on the $500 dollar bill.

That pretty much sums it up for me, too. The only presidents that have died during my lifetime have been Reagan, Nixon, and Ford, and while I certainly didn't weep for Nixon, I didn't particularly care for either of the other guys, either.

And I agree with you on FDR, too. A great man.

[Dean]

For me it was the assasination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (date me doesn't it). It was a different time- a different way of life from what is is today. Publicly, he was everything that the American people ever wanted in a president. The very idea of someone shooting him was unthinkable. An entire nation was devastated.

[PAINTERDAVE]

Which President?

The funeral of JFK

I was just a little kid... but dang! Everybody loved him. It was such a shock. The way the adults all were crying for days... it got to us kids as well. This country was in mourning from November right through to the next year.


That next spring the Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan show. I think that is what finaly pulled this country out of the deppression we were all in, following the assasination of JFK.

[PAINTERDAVE]

Hey

Dean and I were thinking the exact same thought at the same time.

[Day1BroncoFan]

For me it was Ronald Reagan, I wasn’t old enough when JFK died to really be very involved in the whole affair.

[12and4]

the earliest person to be my president in my life is i think clinton lets see, bush has been prez for 6 years , clinton 8, thats 14 years ago clinton started, so no, it would have to be the person before clinton since i am 15. so i guess george bush sr? hmmm and he hasnt died yet i think.... so......

[DevilSpawn]

the earliest person to be my president in my life is i think clinton lets see, bush has been prez for 6 years , clinton 8, thats 14 years ago clinton started, so no, it would have to be the person before clinton since i am 15. so i guess george bush sr? hmmm and he hasnt died yet i think.... so......

I cried when he was elected. Same for his son.

[His Wife]

The funeral of JFK

I was just a little kid... but dang! Everybody loved him. It was such a shock. The way the adults all were crying for days... it got to us kids as well. This country was in mourning from November right through to the next year.


That next spring the Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan show. I think that is what finaly pulled this country out of the deppression we were all in, following the assasination of JFK.

I so agree. That funeral happened when I was a baby, but saw reruns of it from being small on. Then in the 70's when I watched documentaries on the shooting, and his son saluting him as his casket went by....well....it can still bring tears to my eyes. I'm overall a republican, but I'd welcome another democrat like JFK any day. He and Reagan both seemed to have a way with talking with the people and their speeches....no matter how you felt about their politics....they were charming and charasmatic. Clinton had NOTHING on either of those two Presidents.

[orangenblue420]

I dont cry very much but lately the hormones are making me insane -

Dwills death has me upset but im crying today for him and a few other things - I cried ALOT when Dale Earnhardt died and cried watching the funeral and ever documentary for some time to come

My dad's son died when he was only 20ish (his ex kept his kids away and we didnt know them) but when I saw my dad cry for only the second time in my life i couldnt help but cry

Ive been very fortunate to not have lost anyone real close to me - Thank You Jesus

[MarvinWillis]

George Washington , i was there trust me i was there.

[KCLadyFan]

I can't say I really cried when any of them died...Ford and Reagen were both 93
years old...thats a life time...if I can live to be 93 and be able to take care of myself,I will consider myself lucky...I did watch more of RR's funeral than I have Fords...its something to see really...

Like alot of people on here...I was real young when Kennedy was killed but have watched documentaries on the assasination many times....now that was sad not only for his kids to grow up w/o him but also Jackie being in the car right next to him....I will say tho I did cry when John Jr. got killed....that was so sad...