At the Tim Russesrt memorial service in Washington, D.C., the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow was played, and then appearing in the sky was an unusual rainbow in the sky. Tim was watching.

Maureen Orth, Tim’s widow, talked about the day in Italy when Tim was about to leave his wife and son to return to Washington, D.C., so he could tape that Sunday’s Meet the Press, she turned to him and said:

"I said to him, ’I want to give you a hug, maybe I’ll never see you again.’ I don’t know why I said that to him. I just had a feeling."

On the morning of the day he died, Maureen recalled, Russert took a chunk of time off from work to go to his son’s new apartment in D.C. and wait for the cable man. "He could have hired someone to do it, but that wasn’t Tim."

Tom Brokaw said about Tim:

"Family and faith, were the foundations of his life."

Rest in peace Tim Russert.

Luke Russert, the son of Tim Russert, appeared on the Today Show talking about what a loving father his dad was. Matt Lauer spent a lot of time talking about how much Tim loved his son. Tim was loved by colleagues, and his family. He was much more than we saw on television.