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Thursday, January 05, 2012
Havel’s Flower Cortege
For the Czech Republic, the loss of Vaclav Havel is reminiscent of the mourning for Lincoln in the U.S.
Floral tributes for former Czech president Havel cover the funeral boat in Decin, 1/1/12
Photo: CTK
To honor Abraham Lincoln, there was the famous funeral train that carried his body for two weeks from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, in the spring of 1865. The outpouring of flowers along the route changed, among other things, floristry for decades to come, as the American public now had an impressive model of how to mourn.
Vaclav Havel was assuredly the same sort of heroic leader in the Czech Republic, and at his death December 18, 2011, the floral tributes overflowed.