The former president of the United States Jimmy Carter, who died last Sunday at the age of 100 in his hometown of Plains, will be honored during six days of memorial ceremonies in different places around the country, which began Saturday in Georgia, his home state.
“He was an incredible man, and an incredible woman held him and calmed him down.”. And together, the two changed the world, it was incredible to see it from so close and to be able to participate in it. Thank you for your service,” said his son James Earl ‘Chip’ Carter in a speech in which he was clearly affected.
Georgia opened the president’s funeral chapel at the beginning of a 48-hour state funeral. The funeral itself began with the arrival hours before of the former president’s family at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center to prepare for the transfer of the deceased along a route that will take him through local historical sites to the state capital, Atlanta.
Services began Saturday in Georgia, where the procession toured Plains, his hometown, and stopped briefly at his childhood home. Next, The motorcade headed to the Georgia State Capitol and then to the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, where the former president will rest until Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday, his body will be transferred to Washington, where it will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda before his funeral at the Washington National Cathedral. The Capitol will be open to the public so that people can pay their respects before the funeral.
Carter, born on October 1, 1924 in that town, Plains, He was the 39th president of the United States, between 1977 and 1981as a candidate of the Democratic Party.
In 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his initiatives “to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, promote democracy and human rights and promote economic and social development”.
