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That is from the Sweet for Strings, part of the music that made up the tribute during the funeral

of Vice President Cheney today.

And the strings were beautiful.

They did not sing this particular bit of music, but the sea chanters from the United States

Naval Band, the Navy Band, the Marine Corps Chamber Orchestra, all wonderful.

National Cathedral, I hope you got a chance to see it on C-SPAN, was full of people who realized Dick Cheney is a great patriot.

A statesman, a public servant of the highest order, who, solid, tough, dependable, reliable,

loyal, wicked smart, as they would say in Boston.

But it came through again and again and again, a man of the Mountain West.

He was eulogized by his cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, very well, by Pete Williams,

who you probably remember from NBC News, but during the first Gulf War, he was then Secretary of

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