Aerosmith and Josh Groban performed, and the seven astronauts scheduled to fly the shuttle Atlantis as early as September accompanied a color guard onto the field.
One recent morning, a worker attached a sneeze guard onto a dipping cabinet for Ciao Bella Gelato, an ice cream company.
Not far from the town of Bedias, the caravan crossed a cattle guard onto a ranch owned by friends of Mr. Watson.
Howard Dean's eyes followed the flag-draped container on Wednesday as four servicemen slowly marched it from a mammoth cargo plane past a military color guard onto the back of a school bus.
Instead, Mr. Obama appeared with Michelle Obama, passing through a Marine color guard onto the South Lawn of the White House, where hundreds of staff members waited silently at 8 46 a.m., the time the first plane hit the World Trade Center.
Constance would still be able to smell it later on, as she drove down the winding ramp for the last time, pulling away from the closing electric gate and the saluting security guard, onto the gritty ground floor and out into traffic, en route to.
