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To: ansel12

Granted, not all had access to the same technology, but Reagan will be very hard to beat as the best communicator.


7 posted on 02/06/2023 7:39:18 AM PST by bigbob
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To: bigbob

Reagan was also the last president we will have that was a Trooper in the Horse Cavalry.

President Reagan’s June 2004 state funeral in Washington
“But if one looked towards the caisson, the Army artillery cart traditionally used to bear the coffin in military funerals, there was a truly rare and moving sight that will never occur again in American history.

The caisson was pulled by four magnificent Army horses. Close to them, to the sound of slowly beating, muffled drums, a soldier on foot led a riderless horse named Sergeant York, to represent the fallen Commander-in-Chief. There in the stirrups, turned backward, were Reagan’s Model 1940 US Cavalry riding boots and spurs. This old Cavalry practice continued a Roman tradition in which a slain leader symbolically faces and salutes his men on the way to his final resting place,

Ronald Reagan is the last President who was a veteran of the United States Horse Cavalry, a living link to the mounted Cavalry of American mythology.”


14 posted on 02/06/2023 7:52:39 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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