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network with information requests that cause a slowdown or a stoppage of service. cyber criminals are after money. >> is confidential information, you don't want to many people do not how the system works. it is difficult to explain air traffic control in a soundbite. we get things every day. the major attacks we have had have done on customer information systems or things of that nature. -- theve not been attacks that keep me up tonight are the ones that would ease and damage to our critical infrastructure. >> protecting critical u.s. infrastructure from cyber attacks, monday night on "the communicators."
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>> in london on wednesday, thousands gathered at st. paul's cathedral for the funeral service for former british prime minister margaret thatcher. queen elizabeth the second, former british prime ministers tony blair and gordon brown and former vice president dick cheney attended. posted's david dimbleby verage. is is o
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it is 11:00 among the congregation won't stand. .- will stand many services have been performed here in st. paul's cathedral. ♪
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they are directly under the dome of st. paul's cathedral.
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the service begins with the reverend david - of st. paul's cathedral. >> we come to this cathedral ,oday to remember before god margaret ~ thatcher. to give thanks for her life and work and commend her into god's hands. he recalled with great gratitude her leadership of this nation. her courage. her steadfastness. and her resolve to accomplish what she believed to be right for the common good. we remember the values by which she lived. the ideals she embraced. , herignity, her diligence courtesy, and her personal
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concern for the well-being of individuals. , so we rejoice in the lifelong companionship she enjoyed witdeis and we pray , her friends and for all who mourn her passing. we continue to write for this nation, giving thanks for traditions of freedom, for the rule of law, and for parliamentary democracy. parts we havee slaved in peace and conflict over many centuries and all parts of the world. praying for all today who suffer in sorrow, in sickness come a poverty, oppression, or despair. in harmony and truth, we may seek to be channels of christ's face, hope, and compassion. to all the world.
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joining our prayers together as we say our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. give us this day, our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. amen. ♪ three people for the service, chosen by margaret thatcher. ♪
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>> after the stirring words by john bunyan, the music, the first reading will be from king james is bible read by a manufacture. .- amanda thatcher and introng in the lord the power of his might. ,ut on the whole armor of god that he may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. against principalities, against power, against the rulers of the
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darkness of this world. against spiritual wickedness in high places. wherefore take unto you the whole armor of god that he may be able to withstand in the evil day. to stand, done all, stand there for, having a going person out of truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness. d theur feet shot preparations of the gospel of peace. above all, taking the shield of you shall beh able to quench all the fiery dark of the wicked. and take the helmet of
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and then and the sword sps e wordf god. , all prayer and supplication in the spirit. and watching their unto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. thatcher, lady thatcher's granddaughter. now the anthem "hear my prayer, oh lord." this is taken from psalm 102. ♪
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>> let not your heart be troubled.
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you believe in god, believe also in me. in my father's house are many mansions. if it were not so, i would've told you. . go to prepare a place for you if i go and prepare a place for you, i will come again and receive you unto myself. , there he may be also. whither i go, he knows and the way ye know. we knoways unto him, not whether thou goest, and how can we know the way? , i am theh unto him way, the truth, and the likght. no man cometh unto the father but by me.
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anthem that follows is chosen by lady thatcher for the service at her husband's funeral, sir denis thatcher. lovely a site well in place, lord of hosts." place, lordwelling of hosts." ♪
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>> now the address which is
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given by a friend of the thatcher family and of lady thatcher, the bishop of london, right honorable richard kwa -- >> the light of the sheet of political controversy, there is a great calm.
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the storm of conflicting opinions centers on the mrs. thatcher who became a symbolic figure, even an -ism. today, they remains of the real hereret hilda thatcher are at her funeral service. in here, she is one of us, subject to the common destiny of all human beings. there is an important place for debating policies and legacies, for assessing the impact of political decisions on the everyday lives of individuals and communities. parliament held a frank debate last week. is neither the time nor the place. this, at lady thatcher's
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personal request, is a funeral not a memorial service with the customer eulogies. one should not aspire to the judgments which are proper to the politician. foread, this is a place ordinary human compassion of the kinds that is reconciling. it is also the place where the simple truths which transcend political debate and above all, .t is the place for hope it must be very difficult for ande members of her family those closely associated with the wife,ognize mother, and grandmother in the mythological figure. and their families and
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also to those who cared for lady thatcher with such evil ocean, -- devotion, especially in her later years. one thing that is noted is the courtesy and personal kindness which she should -- showed to those who worked for her. as well as her capacity to reach out to the young and often also to those who were not in the world eyes important. a letter from a young boy early on in her time of prime minister is a typical example. nine-year-old david wrote to when we wereht saying prayers, my daddy said everyone has done wrong things except jesus. i said, i don't think you have done bad things because you are the prime minister. am i right or is my daddy?
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[laughter] the most remarkable thing is that the prime minister replied in her own hand, in a very straightforward letter which took the question seriously. she said, however good we try to be, we can never be as kind, gentle, and wise as jesus. there will be times when we do or say something we wish we had not done and we shall be sorry antry not to do it again. she was always reaching out, trying to help in characteristically uncoded terms. i was once sitting next to her at some city function and in the midst of describing how high its rose to serfdom -- she suddenly grasped my wrist and said very touch thely, don't duck pate.
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it is very fattening. she described her own religious upbringing in a lecture she gave. she said she often went to church, twice on a sunday, as well as on other occasions during the week. we were taught there, always to make up our own minds and never take the easy way of following the crowd. her upbringing of course was in methodism, to which this country owes a huge debt. when it was time to challenge the political and economic status quo in 19th-century britain, it was so often the methodist who took the lead. -- some were led by not marxists, but by methodist preachers. today's first lesson describes the struggle with the prince policies and powers and perseverance in struggle and the courage to be the characteristic
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of margaret thatcher. in the presence of the leaders of the nations and many andesentatives of nations countries throughout the world, it is easy to forget the immense hurdles she had to climb. beginning in the upper floors of her father's shop, through oxford as a scientist and later as part of the team that invented mr. whitley's ice ice cream,ippy's she entered a political career. by the time she entered parliament in 1959, she was part of only four percent of women in the house of commons. she had experienced many rebuffs along the way, often on the short list of candidates, only to be disqualified by prejudice against a woman and worse, a woman with children.

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