General Ray Davis has died

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RIP Sir

Very nice article in todays Atlanta Journal Constitution on the funeral of General Davis. I'll try to find a link online as I only have the paper version. More than a dozen generals from Washington attended, as did General Michael Hagee. More than 400 packed the church and they had overflow using TV screens set up in surrounding churches for all to see. I found the following moving:

"Two young Marines walked in slowly and stood rigidly on each side of the coffin. One faced the casket, saluted, and bent over the body, carefully removing the Medal of Honor from Davis' neck and placing it on an 18-inch red velvet sheet, held by the other serviceman.
They both saluted and marched out. The medals were transferred to a mahogany box and given to Davis' wife of 62 years, Knox Davis."

Some quotes from article:

...retired General Robert Barrow joked that had Davis been alive in "the War Between the States, William Tecumseh Sherman would have never gotten into Atlanta."

He also said Davis was "the finest man I've ever known, a Marine's Marine. I loved him."

Harry Bruce, 75, who was a Marine Sergeant during the Korean War drove from Conroe, Texas, saying it "was the least he could do."