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Air Force One collects Bush casket at start of America's national farewell

Air Force One -- seen here at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on August 31, 2018 -- has been sent to Texas to transport the casket of late president George H.W. Bush to Washington for a series of memorial services. [AFP/File / Brendan Smialowski]

America's national farewell to George H.W. Bush begins Monday with the transfer of his casket aboard the presidential plane from Texas to Washington, where he will lie in state in the rotunda of the US Capitol.

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