And has anyone any comment on the way the full-military-honours funeral motif, with its uniformed pall-bearers, muffled drum & fife &c, has so incongruously, &, it would appear, universally, survived into this cowboy context from the earlier 'Young soldier/sailor' British versions ~~ tho, as I have remarked before on other threads, why a young serviceman should ever have considered himself entitled to such an honour for dying, not gloriously in battle, but from a dose of the pox, I have never understood. Why, what vain & conceited impertinence, to be sure!