Add up their years: 379 to be exact, enough time to take you back into the mid-1600s, when the notion of the American nation was still more than a century away.Consider why they were there: to bid farewell to a member of their fraternity who was the last of his generation and whose own life began just a few years after World War I's ashes stopped smoldering.

Current and former U.S. presidents and vice presidents attended the funeral for former U.S. president Jimmy Carter’s funeral in Washington.