Then again, Ford ended a war

Here's something you don't see every day. In fact, President Ford's may well be the first flag-draped coffin you have seen on TV all year. President Bush (41, that is) banned cameras from Dover Air Force Base during the Iraq War (the first one, that is), and future presidents have upheld the ban at the facility where the military dead are brought in and laid out in ceremonial caskets.

This reminds me that I should salute Jim Lehrer's "NewsHour" for another year of remembering the fallen with pictures in silence at the end of many of his newscasts. Here's hoping, however wishfully, he's not still doing it a year from now.