'America's last great soldier-statesman': Bush honoured at state funeral

The late President George H.W. Bush was remembered at his state funeral on Wednesday as a World War Two hero, Cold War veteran and commander in chief of a U.S. victory against Iraq who went on to represent a bygone era of civility in American politics.

An unusual bipartisan spirit was on display at the service at the Washington National Cathedral with both Republican and Democratic politicians gathering to honour a president who called for a “kinder, gentler” nation.

Bush, the 41st U.S. president, died last week in Texas aged 94.

“George H.W. Bush was America’s last great soldier-statesman,” Jon Meacham, a presidential