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Some of them knew her. Some of them didn’t. they all walked past it. The war stories, the losses, the flag-draped coffins, the KIA bracelets the heartbreak. It’s not so distant anymore. – Mallory Harrison	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The funeral services are collapsed. There aren't any coffins, my family was in despair to have a deceased person for 15 hours in their bed in the tropical heat. The funeral home said there were 16 cases like his, people without a place to be buried. – Magdiel Jorge Castro	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is going to be a longer process, so we're just at the very beginning of that stage, the analytical component of this is actually going to take a fair bit longer for us to start getting some of those answers with regard to the individuals that are contained within these coffins. – Kary Stackelbeck	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The population reacted quite positively in the first phase, however fear probably played a role, images of the coffins carried on military trucks in Bergamo were harsh, and evidently they made it clear how leaving the uncontrolled circulation of the virus would lead to serious problems. – Gianni Rezza	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The whole village is a funeral. The houses here are filled with coffins. – Niroshan Perera	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
In the background we can see the country at war, the country full of coffins while the president lives in sweetness under any circumstances. – Daria Marchenko	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
My feelings are basically the same as they always were, i find it disrespectful to the people who fought for this country — their coffins are draped in this flag. – Palmetto Restaurant owner David McCraw	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
She has been in plausible deniability about Benghazi ever since it happened, she was standing, basically before the coffins of Americans, blaming a horrible anti-Islamic video, but she’s just being consistent with her psychosis. The liar, the criminal, the crooked politician—those are the three faces of Hillary. – Michael Ingmire	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Where many retail brands have put the nail in their coffins is by opening too many stores. – West Elm president	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The coffins show the skill and care with which the Egyptians prepared for the afterlife, to us, for whom death is a taboo subject, this seems like a morbid preoccupation. In fact, it was an obsession with life and an urgent wish to ensure its perfected continuation. – Helen Strudwick	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Those (who do so) will return to their countries in coffins. – Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Any ground intervention on Syrian land without the agreement of the Syrian government is an act of aggression ... we regret that those (who invade) will return to their countries in coffins. – Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Instead of enthusiasm for the ballot box there is the silence of the coffins, less than a week to the election, and everywhere in Kurdistan is under the shadow of guns and the sound of warplanes. – Idris Baluken	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There are no coffins here, nothing, people would be wrapped in a piece of cloth and buried in the yard like dogs. – Nadezhda Ignatenko	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
What stands out more is the contrast between the care and attention taken with these burials -- large, neatly dug graves with coffins -- and the crudeness of Richard III's grave, the more we examine it, the clearer it becomes how atypical Richard III's burial really was. – Mathew Morris	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The argument that I hear from the administration is that we don't want to provoke Vladimir Putin. That is just Orwellian... history will judge this administration incredibly harshly, the only thing that will dissuade Vladimir Putin from what he is doing is when coffins come back to the families in Russia. – John McCain	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Do dead people like music? I hope they listen to mine if they do, in their coffins, in the cold underworld, between the mind and the body in an insomniac wall of sleep. – Marc Broude	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise. – Red Skelton	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Some of them knew her. Some of them didn’t. they all walked past it. The war stories, the losses, the flag-draped coffins, the KIA bracelets the heartbreak. It’s not so distant anymore.

– Mallory Harrison

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The funeral services are collapsed. There aren't any coffins, my family was in despair to have a deceased person for 15 hours in their bed in the tropical heat. The funeral home said there were 16 cases like his, people without a place to be buried.

– Magdiel Jorge Castro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is going to be a longer process, so we're just at the very beginning of that stage, the analytical component of this is actually going to take a fair bit longer for us to start getting some of those answers with regard to the individuals that are contained within these coffins.

– Kary Stackelbeck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The population reacted quite positively in the first phase, however fear probably played a role, images of the coffins carried on military trucks in Bergamo were harsh, and evidently they made it clear how leaving the uncontrolled circulation of the virus would lead to serious problems.

– Gianni Rezza

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The whole village is a funeral. The houses here are filled with coffins.

– Niroshan Perera

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

In the background we can see the country at war, the country full of coffins while the president lives in sweetness under any circumstances.

– Daria Marchenko

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

My feelings are basically the same as they always were, i find it disrespectful to the people who fought for this country — their coffins are draped in this flag.

– Palmetto Restaurant owner David McCraw

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

She has been in plausible deniability about Benghazi ever since it happened, she was standing, basically before the coffins of Americans, blaming a horrible anti-Islamic video, but she’s just being consistent with her psychosis. The liar, the criminal, the crooked politician—those are the three faces of Hillary.

– Michael Ingmire

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Where many retail brands have put the nail in their coffins is by opening too many stores.

– West Elm president

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The coffins show the skill and care with which the Egyptians prepared for the afterlife, to us, for whom death is a taboo subject, this seems like a morbid preoccupation. In fact, it was an obsession with life and an urgent wish to ensure its perfected continuation.

– Helen Strudwick

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Those (who do so) will return to their countries in coffins.

– Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Any ground intervention on Syrian land without the agreement of the Syrian government is an act of aggression ... we regret that those (who invade) will return to their countries in coffins.

– Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Instead of enthusiasm for the ballot box there is the silence of the coffins, less than a week to the election, and everywhere in Kurdistan is under the shadow of guns and the sound of warplanes.

– Idris Baluken

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are no coffins here, nothing, people would be wrapped in a piece of cloth and buried in the yard like dogs.

– Nadezhda Ignatenko

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

What stands out more is the contrast between the care and attention taken with these burials -- large, neatly dug graves with coffins -- and the crudeness of Richard III's grave, the more we examine it, the clearer it becomes how atypical Richard III's burial really was.

– Mathew Morris

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The argument that I hear from the administration is that we don't want to provoke Vladimir Putin. That is just Orwellian... history will judge this administration incredibly harshly, the only thing that will dissuade Vladimir Putin from what he is doing is when coffins come back to the families in Russia.

– John McCain

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Do dead people like music? I hope they listen to mine if they do, in their coffins, in the cold underworld, between the mind and the body in an insomniac wall of sleep.

– Marc Broude

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.

– Red Skelton

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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