What we know about funeral plans for former President Jimmy Carter

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-31 13:35:38 | Updated at 2025-01-08 05:22:27 1 week ago

What we know about funeral plans for former President Jimmy Carter
cnn.com ^ | Mon December 30 | Michelle Shen and Nikki Carvajal

Posted on 12/31/2024 5:20:58 AM PST by V_TWIN

Carter to travel from Plains to nation’s capital Carter’s motorcade will travel through Plains on January 4, past his boyhood home and the Georgia State Capitol, before arriving at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, according to plans released by the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region in the Department of Defense, which will conduct the ceremonies. After the service at the Carter Center, the former president will lie in repose there, and the public can pay their respects until the morning of January 7.

He will then lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, congressional leadership announced Monday. The Capitol will be open to the public on the night of January 7 through January 9, ahead of Carter’s funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral at 10 a.m., according to the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region.

Following the service, the late president and his family will travel back to Georgia to the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where the former president taught Sunday school for decades, for a private funeral service. After, the public is invited to gather along a motorcade route that will travel through Carter’s hometown to his residence, where he will be buried — the same location his wife, Rosalynn, was buried following her death last year.

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1 posted on 12/31/2024 5:20:58 AM PST by V_TWIN

To: V_TWIN

Who cares? And other than a few RAT trolls on FR, why post it here?

2 posted on 12/31/2024 5:22:48 AM PST by LouAvul (2 Sam 23:3: He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. )

To: V_TWIN

Wonder how many will show up. When they did it for McCain mostly democrats showed up and there were less then a dozen people for the motorcade

3 posted on 12/31/2024 5:25:30 AM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)

To: LouAvul

Most Americans aren’t old enough to remember him. Since the left doesn’t have tha much to brag about they’ll play it up. Since we’re the racists we can also be the unfeeling when it comes to the truth.

4 posted on 12/31/2024 5:26:05 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

To: McGavin999

The Party will bus in “mourners”.

5 posted on 12/31/2024 5:27:01 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)

To: LouAvul

Because it’s history - the death of any president - and we’re not ignorant progressives who censor history. We don’t have to like Carter to respect the office he once held. To denigrate that is to encourage the other side to disrespect Trump should he die while a progressive is in the White House. Hate the man; respect the office.

6 posted on 12/31/2024 5:28:32 AM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)

To: V_TWIN

“…the public can pay their respects until the morning of January 7.”

Quick! Everybody book your flights and hotels. Jump to it!

7 posted on 12/31/2024 5:32:36 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)

To: V_TWIN

Carter's 'motorcade'.

8 posted on 12/31/2024 5:32:52 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)

To: V_TWIN

I hope they reuse GHWB funeral plans.

9 posted on 12/31/2024 5:33:07 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)

To: V_TWIN

I wish they did not make a big deal about Carter’s dying, but you can bet the “powers that be” will make a big public spectacle laying to rest this man who did so much damage to the world by his naive policies. Carter will always be known to me for 1) record high interest rates, 2) the gas crisis 3) giving away the Panama Canal, 4) encouraging the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran by stabbing the Shah in the back, 5) his cringe-worthy “malaise” speech, and 6) the Iran hostage crisis where he let those stone age sand people humiliate the USA for several years while he cowered in the White House.

10 posted on 12/31/2024 5:34:52 AM PST by rod5591

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