We write these words as funeral services continue for the 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush. There have been days of touching tributes to a man who was a patriot and public servant to the core, a man who was a decorated naval pilot during World War II, who served as a congressman, ambassador to the United Nations and to China, director of the CIA and vice-president. Many have commented that he was perhaps the most qualified U.S. president ever elected.