Jimmy Carter ‘s long public goodbye began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th U.S. president’s flag-draped casket rolling through his tiny hometown and past his boyhood farmhouse on its way to Atlanta, where he climbed the political ladder and based his decades of humanitarian work after leaving the White House.
The former president’s six-day state funeral started in Americus at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, where current and former Secret Service agents who protected the late president loaded his remains into a black hearse and walked alongside as it rolled off the campus toward Plains.
If there was a single president in the last sixty years who put service to the nation and to the world above his own self-interest, it was James Earl Carter, Jr.
Fair winds and following seas, sir.
Some quotes on endangered virtues:
ReplyDeleteIf honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime
- William Arnot
"integrity is a disease: you can only catch it from someone who has it."
-LM Bujold
Or flip side:
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"Once you've done away with integrity, the rest is a piece of cake."
-J.R. Ewing
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth,
impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor,
blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice.
Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22