Inside the Pomp and Circumstance at John McCain’s Funeral
Invited guests lined up outside the Washington National Cathedral hours early for what became an unrivaled assemblage of official Washington to mourn the death of a father, a warrior, a senator and a friend.
The invited guests started to line up about 7:15 a.m. By the time doors of the Washington National Cathedral opened at 8, two hours before the start of Senator John McCain’s funeral, hundreds were waiting. The queue snaked out to the sidewalk along Wisconsin Avenue, between satellite TV trucks on the side of the road and the media tent city that stood on the lawn.
The designated media minders told reporters headed into the sanctuary that they would be seated 90 minutes in advance, would need a chaperone to visit the restroom and could not leave until the
