Watching those guys carry the casket up the stairs (it's on the news hour--hard to avoid watching them carry the casket up the stairs) I wonder if there's a protocol to take a rest along the way? In all of the time it is taking them to move it from the portico into the rotunda, it must be heavy. Do you suppose there is, as when informally moving a heavy chest of drawers, a signal for resting it on a corner before dropping it?

"Put it down--my fingers are breaking!"

The gravity of the situation must make that box all the heavier.

The rotunda is a beautiful room. But I'm turning off the program now, because the zealots are about to start speaking.

SRS