OPINION
Funerals are a symphony celebrating a person lost to us – Let's please leave politics at the door
By Kristi S. Hamrick | Fox News
FILE -- Aretha Franklin, John McCain (AP photos)
In the same month in which Sen. John McCain and Aretha Franklin passed away, my mother also died.
My heart has ached for the family and friends of those legends in a personal way, as my brothers and I arranged for our own mother’s funeral and began the process of making sense of all the items that make up a life, categorizing them, distributing them, selling them, mourning over them and reflecting on the life of a legend in my own family.
It’s the stories of a life that make such horrific moments bearable, I think, as you laugh through the tears of the moment.
Which makes it rather shocking in my view that so many took time from the funerals of great Americans this week to make partisan political points.
There is a lack of courtesy and self-awareness on the parts of too many of the privileged who think that their politics are worthy of the time of the rest of us, no matter the setting.
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All politics aside, my mother and these two great Americans are beyond the petty stuff of Earth, so I pray for those left behind, that they are surrounded by people who also miss those gone on and can laugh at the stories.
At times like these, it’s the love we had for those we lost, not who won an election, that should be front and center. Rest in Peace.
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