I did not expect the funeral of Dick Cheney in Washington, DC this week to stir as much reflection in me as it did. But it did. And perhaps that says as much about our current moment as it does about the man whose life was honored.
And love his country he did. That came through unmistakably during the service. He loved his family too and the testimonies of his grandchildren and his daughter were moving, as was the testimony of former President George W. Bush.
The music, the readings, the eulogies: none of it felt performative. It felt like a nation at its best, even if the man being honored was often at the center of one of its fiercest controversies. There was something grounding in seeing political rivals, old colleagues, military leaders, Supreme Court justices, and diplomats share the same room, not to score points or stage a spectacle, but to remember a life and to acknowledge the seriousness of public duty.
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