OUTPOURING OF RESPECT FOR REAGAN.Byline: Staff and Wire Services POINT MUGU - Crowds watched from freeway overpasses and drivers stood by their parked cars with hands over their hearts as the motorcade bearing former President Ronald Reagan's body left Southern California early Wednesday on its way to the nation's capital. As the procession made the 45-minute drive from Simi Valley to Ventura County Naval Base-Point Mugu, farmworkers climbed off tractors, removed their hats and held them over their hearts. A little boy stood at attention and saluted from the tailgate A conversion layer that lets IDE devices connect to the IEEE 1394 Firewire interface. of a pickup truck by an onion field in Ventura County, where a sign read ``Rest Well, President Reagan.'' In a 20-minute ceremony on the runway at Point Mugu, the flag-draped casket was carried from a hearse as a Marine Corps band played ``Hail to the Chief,'' ``God Bless America'' and ``Amazing Grace.'' A battery from the 11th Marine Artillery Regiment of the 1st Marine Division fired a thundering salute. At the top of the aircraft stairs, former first lady Nancy Reagan waved goodbye as the crowd applauded. The U.S. Air Force Boeing 747 carrying Reagan's remains left Point Mugu for Andrews Air Force Base Andrews Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 4,279 acres (1,732 hectares), central Md., est. 1943. It is the chief military airport of Washington, D.C., as well as the headquarters for the air force's high-priority airlift command. outside Washington, D.C., at 9:40 a.m. It arrived there at 1:53 p.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT . CAPTION(S): photo, box, map Photo: Nancy Reagan stands, right, with Maj. Gen. Galen B. Jackman Major General Galen B. Jackman of the United States Army currently serves in the Pentagon as the Army's Chief of Legislative Liaison[1]. The Office, Chief of Legislative Liaison (OCLL) operates directly under the Office of the Secretary of the Army. at Ventura County Naval Base-Point Mugu as an armed forces honor guard loads her husband's casket onto the plane that would carry it to Washington, D.C. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News Box/Map: POINT MUGU NAVAL AIR STATION A Naval Air Station is an airbase of the United States Navy. Such bases are used to house Naval Aviation squadrons and support commands. List of Functioning US Naval Air Stations
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