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Undeterred by monsoon rains, thousands of supporters then followed Hazare as he drove in a flag-draped truck first to the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, who led India's independence struggle, and then to the venue of his public fast.

India's Anti Corruption Campaigner Begins Public Fast 2011

Mr. Sellars's directing incorporated naturalistic moments a coming-home party for Hercules with bottled beers and a portable grill; Hercules' funeral, with its flag-draped coffin and more stylized ones, like the chorus's mysterious choreographed hand gestures.

Post-Traumatic Stress Of Herculean Proportions Heidi Waleson 2011

Original post: Hundreds of visitors are silently filing by the flag-draped casket of the last American World War I veteran inside the chapel at Arlington National Cemetery, the Associated Press reports.

Arlington hosts burial for last U.S. WWI veteran; Obama pays respects 2011

Mohammad Shiri/Borna News Agency/Associated Press In Iran, people carried the flag-draped coffin of Sane Jaleh, seen in picture at left, a student who was killed during Monday's clashes, in Tehran Wednesday.

Protests in Libya, Iran, Bahrain 2011

ET: President Obama and Vice President Biden have paid their respects at the cemetery's Memorial Amphitheater Building, where flag-draped casket of Frank Buckles lay in repose, our colleagues at The Oval report.

Arlington hosts burial for last U.S. WWI veteran; Obama pays respects 2011

I actually have a memory of seeing that flag-draped coffin on our black and white TV in Brooklyn.

Mark Gimpel: Dobie and Grey Mark Gimpel 2011

Personification -- A risk represented by a name or a face (the starving child, a dead soldier in a flag-draped coffin) affects us more powerfully than a risk that may be much larger but is only represented by impersonal numbers ("millions of starving children", statistics of battle deaths).

David Ropeik: Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic David Ropeik 2011

Earlier, friends had gathered at John F. Kennedy Presidential Library to pay respects around his flag-draped casket before leaving for the funeral in the Mission Hill district.

Friends, colleagues gather at church for Kennedy's funeral 2009

I actually have a memory of seeing that flag-draped coffin on our black and white TV in Brooklyn.

Mark Gimpel: Dobie and Grey Mark Gimpel 2011

The people "lining Main Street" were holding small American flags, saluting or holding a hand over their hearts, saying a prayer as the flag-draped casket carrying their hero came home.

Dorian de Wind: America's '100-Year Wars' Dorian de Wind 2011