Not too long ago, however, a common practice flourished throughout the United States of allowing the grieving families an opportunity to know they had the full respect of total strangers: Oncoming motorists would pull over as a funeral procession approached their vehicle.
“That went on everywhere when I was a kid,” stated, Garland Ann, a 76-year-old North Carolina woman, adding, “Nowadays it seems like it only goes on out in the country. Everybody else is too busy to pause from their lives for thirty seconds.”
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Still happens around here. Funeral processions get a police escort and people will pull over and wait for the procession to pass If they're walking when one goes by, they'll stop and face it with the men removing their hats and women placing their hand over their heart.
