The tribute speech has to be around 5 minutes. People, places, things it doesn't matter.
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Visit this website. They explain from beginning to end on how to write a tribute speech.
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Can I tell you what we did for my Grandfather which may be of help to you.  Like your Dad, he was the cornerstone of the family and didn't care much for gifts--but we did a very special thing for him which made it a wonderful occasion for him. I suggest you do this with a writable CD.  There used to be a television show called "This is Your Life...(fill in a name)" Where someone would be honored for their accomplishments and contributions throughout a life time, starting with family photos when the person was really young, working up through high school and college and then career.  Anything that would be important to that person as memories. During different phases, different people would talk from behind a curtain describing favorite memories until the guest of honor figured out who it was.  For our family, we had all his children telling little stories about favorite times together and tape recorded it, and worked it in with the slide show of photos.  It wasn't mushy, it was honoring.  I'll just be frank here, it's like a living memorial while the person is still alive.  As  a poem I read said:"If you have anything nice to say to me, tell it to me now while I can appreciate it, don't tell it to the cold unfeeling gravemarker, tell it to me now when I can bask in the warmth of sincere appreciation." Or words to that effect.  It is easier than ever to make multi-media CD's now or some photo shops will do it for you. You cazn even have music in the background from the 20's,30's and 40's.  It would mean so much to me to have my children put on CD words that they love me, and appreciate me as a father along with memories of happy times together.  It doesn't have to be a big production, and it would mean more than any store-bought gift whether it be $60 or $600. People like to think that they have accomplished something in their life time--it doesn't have to be anything major --infact for a man it can be just that he raised his family as best he could, went to work when he wasn't feeling well, saw his kids through heartaches and sorrows, joys and happy times and is appreciated for it and loved.  My Dad died when he was 62, and I have wished over and over that I had taken more time to say "Thanks Dad for being a great dad and all that you did for us kids and the family!"  I don't have that chance now. You do.  I know you will do that which is right.\n-Spec
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Someone already asked that question in the last 5 minutes.
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Exactly as long as it takes.\n\nWay too little information.
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I suggest trying find it the "old school" way - find a local library that has copies of "Vital Speeches of the Day".  It is a publication that has published influential speeches (likely determined by its publisher/editors).  Since they began publishing in 1934, it's likley they may have published some of Og Mandino's speeches.  If so, the library may have a copy on microfiche.\n\nI also found a good list of other sources at SUNY Albany.
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Simple. Give to some charity trust. You don't need a day. You need just one miniute to do that
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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, America's first Republican president.\n\n\nFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. \n\nNow we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. \n\nBut, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, shall not perish from the earth.
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We are planning the same sort of thing, and to be honest once the service and pictures are taken, then you have had something to eat and the speeches there is not a lot of time left, we were thinking of just playing some music and letting people wander around and mingle and talk to each other.
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sounds good...and you could work  the song "one world (not three)" by the police into yer presentation...good luck!
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So you are going to give the people 48 hours?  are you going to add a note to the notice saying, " if you are a bad guy or think you may be a bad guy or have any intention to harm the US or its people please disregard this notice."\n\nC'mon...you are talking about nuclear warfare...I don't care how you cut it...it makes us worse than the terrorists that we spent so much time trying to demonize.   \n\nNow I am glad you are not running the country...how's that for an insult...you actually make me feel better that G. W. is in office.
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Good question!  I would have to say between 5-10 seconds.
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Only one person should speak one at a time,\nAgenda should be specific in advance,\nRespect the ideas of others,\nMajority wins during a vote, and\nKeep a record of the meeting.
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nothing...what should u say?you will spoil the moment
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I think you're a bit behind the times. Bush has signed into law a piece of legislation barring protests at military funerals.\n\nThe new law bars protests within 300 feet of the entrance of a national cemetery and within 150 feet of a road into the cemetery. This restriction applies an hour before until an hour after a funeral. Those violating the act would face up to a $100,000 fine and up to a year in prison.\n\nThis was directed at Fred Phelps and his band of nutjobs, no doubt.
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Just say that there was a death in the family.  Usually no further explanation is required.
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at least 30 minutes or longer, 5 days a week.
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It is actually quite simple, really.If you are there, I/M me and I will you.I have to go somewhere in a few minutes