1. The Bush family, Vice President and Second Lady Pence, and Speaker and Mrs. Ryan stand in respect as President Bush's casket enters the Capitol Rotunda.
![Bush Casket 1](/images/18-08/images/Bush-Casket-1.jpg)
2. Speaker Ryan offers his condolences to President George W. Bush.
![Bush Casket 2](/images/18-08/images/Bush-Casket-2.jpg)
3. America's military and political leaders bow their heads in prayer in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
![Bush Casket 3](/images/18-08/images/Bush-Casket-3.jpg)
4. President Bush's flag-draped casket sits atop a wooden box known as a catafalque—the same one that President Lincoln laid upon during his state funeral.
![Bush Casket 4](/images/18-08/images/Bush-Casket-4.jpg)
5. From high above in the Rotunda, a bird's eye view shows a steady stream of visitors who have traveled from all corners of the country to pay their last respects to President George Herbert Walker Bush. May God bless him.
![Bush Casket 5](/images/18-08/images/Bush-Casket-5.jpg)