Respect

History has many perspectives. Perhaps the loudest voice should be from the common citizen:

“”I thought when he pardoned Nixon he stood up and did what the country needed, not what would further his political career,” said John Banks, 51, of Calhoun, Georgia. “I don’t think we have presidents that do that any more.”

Banks, who said he was in the Air Force when Ford was president, drove more than 10 hours to Washington to pay his respects.”

link: Americans line up to say farewell to Ford

Dr. Martin Luther King wrote that “the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy”. That is not lost upon the common citizen - it never is.

Catherine