Crowds line up to bid Graham farewell at US Capitol
Stanley Holmes, of Skyline, Md., right, holds his grandson Royce Holmes, 2, on his shoulders as they stand in line to attend the public viewing of evangelist Billy Graham's casket in the Capitol Rotunda on Feb. 28, 2018. "I told my grandson that we are going to go to the same thing together as I did with his cousin," said Holmes, "when Rosa Parks was here." Graham is only the fourth private citizen to lie in honor in the rotunda. The others are two U.S. Capitol Police officers who died in the line of duty in 1998 and civil rights hero Rosa Parks in 2005. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
WASHINGTON (RNS) — From Baptists to Bruderhofs, people spoke of personal connections with the longtime evangelist, even if they never met him or saw him in person.
