When her body lay in repose at St. Martin’s, the Secret Service agents who had been on the Bushes’ detail had stood vigil beside her casket. After she was buried in College Station, they remained on duty at the gravesite through the night, though that was no longer required for any security reason. When everyone else had gone, the Secret Service team sent out a message, as they always did at the close of day. They used the code name Barbara Bush had been known by for decades, ever since that long-ago presidential campaign in 1980. “Tranquility has reached her final destination.”
There is more to life than this world.
