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Back in 1982 when my Dad passed away several friends and family from other states attended the funeral. As the procession drove the 30 miles to the cemetary cars in the oncoming lane pulled over and stopped until the procession passed. our fair state is the only one in which I had ever seen that respect.
The laws in other states are different, which might be why others just don't know that custom. Drivers outside generally are schooled to never break the procession by cutting in, and hearse drivers either use left lane or center lane (in case of 3 lanes) so that it doesn't put people in awkward positions trying to merge on/off exits.
It's also very difficult to identify a procession ahead in heavy traffic areas when 1.the chain has many regular type cars, 2. everyone seems to have daytime running lights standard, and 3. those lights are all facing foward, unseen from a car behind until noticed in rearview.
I've been guilty, but I didn't mean it!
Thanks for clueing me in on the custom. I'll be sure to observe it.
Back in 1982 when my Dad passed away several friends and family from other states attended the funeral. As the procession drove the 30 miles to the cemetary cars in the oncoming lane pulled over and stopped until the procession passed. A friend riding with my family and me asked why the cars were stopping. I told him, "it's just our way of showing respect for a grieving family". I had never really noticed, until then, that our fair state is the only one in which I had ever seen that respect.
When we first moved here, we were behind a procession and the cars on the other side pulled off and stopped until it went by. I was telling my parents about it and she said she didn't know that they still did that. She grew up in WV and said that they always did that out of respect.
Everywhere in Western New York State , they also pull over...course the southern tier of WNY is part of appalachian plateau...I guess mountains bring up good manners.
From my reading of Civil War history of the state I've noted several things that made me grin. I read of one company of Union volunteers that came several hundred miles to Wheeling, but when they found out they might have to leave the state, they marched right back home.
One historian wrote that when there was a Confederate raid through an area, Union recruitment went up, and when there was a Union raid, Confederate recruitment went up.
Gen. William L. Jackson (Stonewall's cousin from Parkersburg) organized the 19th VA Cavalry in the central counties, and he noticed that when they passed near home a number of men went AWOL, though they would eventually return after doing their chores. Rather than be a stern disciplinarian and risk losing them altogether, he allowed them a certain amount of time away, and that is why he was able to keep most of his regiment together until the final days.
Perhaps the state motto should be changed to "Montani semper contrari".
Those unauthorized furloughs date back to the Revolutionary War and Valley Forge. Washington did the same thing after Trenton.
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