If past bipartisan practice is any guide, one or more extraordinary individual in uniform will grace the First Lady's box in the House gallery, perhaps bearing the scars of terrible wounds suffered in the line of duty.

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He said Reagan led "with great grace, " and he expressed his condolences to Reagan's widow, former first lady Nancy Reagan.

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