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Mar. 25th, 2015
It’s crazy.
The queue to pay respects to Mr. Lee Kuan Yew has stretched so long...
An update at 5pm says that the expected waiting time for the queues is 8 hours… so much so that they have advised the public not to join in the queues anymore.
Tribute centers and the lying in state will be opened 24 hours to the public… because there was just too many people going to pay their respects.
Trains and buses will run all night today too.
It’s crazy...
But at the same time...
If you just think about it…
Like what Lenin, Stalin was to the Soviet Union… or Mao Zedong was to China...
Lee Kuan Yew is that same legend to Singapore.
I remember watching old footage showing kilometres of people queuing to pay their respects to Lenin. Years from now… people will be looking at footage of the Lying in State now and commemorating the founder of Singapore.