The eulogy

We just finished listening to President Obama's eulogy at the memorial service for Rev. Clemente Pinckney in Charleston, S.C. An unforgettable moment for our country, very likely unique in American history, to have a President speak as he did, in so heart-felt, candid, and emotion-filled way, on a subject so important, and so fraught with pain and controversy, and then to break into song. Amazing!

We were having lunch with Carol Plagge, my brother Stewart's dear friend, during the original broadcast, so we are grateful that C-Span re-broadcast it this evening. Becky came over and joined us for supper. We remembered my brother with love. He would have been 88 years old yesterday. All of this, of course, on top of the Supreme Court's affirmation of same-sex marriage earlier today. What a day! Reason for hope for our nation and the world in the midst of so much violence and despair!