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He was enormously popular with the common Turkish people, and when he died in 1938 thousands of mourners lined the railway track to salute the white presidential train as it carried him from Istanbul for burial in Ankara, the new capital.
Often, women in the local Islamic community prepare food for mourners and their guests.
Mourners had to undergo 50 days of purification before being allowed back on Miyajima.
Do we want him laying the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, comforting our mourners, saluting our heroes?
Lincoln died in a room barely large enough to hold his bed, but Brady photographed the multitude of mourners one by one in his studio, and the painter Alonzo Chappel assembled them (often in the exact poses Brady had choreographed) in a monumental and wildly popular painting, The Last Hours of Lincoln (1868).