The headlines of today's local paper (Portland Press Herald) read "A Simple, Solemn farewell" The article describes how Kennedy "Family members watched from the deck of a Navy destroyer as a brass quintet played a hymn...The flag was lowered to half mask as ...mourners....flanked by sailors in dress whites gathered on the stern of the USS Briscoe...A Navy honor guard was also on hand to fire a rifle volley...The service was conducted in private...amid orders that planes keep five miles away. Boats were allowed no closer than a mile." As I read this I could not keep my mind from straying to the 17 Iraqi civilians killed by US Bombers last Sunday, and trying to picture just what kind of funeral they had, and what would be the fate of their family members Frank