Slideshow posted in National/World | Thursday, November 29, 2012
13 of 21: Former President George H.W. Bush salutes the audience at the Temple Theater Tuesday, May 16, 2006, in Meridian, Miss., after being acknowledged during the funeral of former Rep. G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery. Montgomery, a conservative Democrat, had represented an east-central Mississippi district in Congress from 1967 to 1997, and for 13 years chaired the House Veterans Affairs Committee. He died last Friday at a Meridian, Miss., hospital at the age of 85. (AP Photo/ ROGELIO SOLIS)
