Order of Service for state funeral of Ronald Wilson Reagan, 11:30 am, June 11, 2004

Washington National Cathedral ^ | June 11, 2004 | Washington National Cathedral

[Ronin]

If you can give me an address for the place, I am sure I can find it. As for making the copy... Let me think about that. There might be a way to do that here.

[churchillbuff]

Praise God from whom all Blessings flow.

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[BurbankKarl]

More about Ronan Tynan


Though Ronan Tynan’s singing career has made him a star, his personal story of triumph in the face of adversity is the stuff of which legends are made. The subject of an ABC-TV 20/20 profile, Barbara Walters stated, "Here on 20/20, we’ve told you about a lot of incredible people, but we have never profiled anyone with the accomplishments of the man you’re about to meet. Most people believed he wouldn’t even be able to earn a living, but what he has done is so amazing you may find it hard to believe. It’s a wonderful story".

Ronan was born forty years ago with lower limb disability. When he was twenty, his legs had to be amputated below the knee after an auto accident caused complications. Just weeks after the operation, he was climbing up the steps of his college dorm. Within a year, he was winning gold medals in the disabled games. Between 1981 and 1984, Ronan amassed eighteen gold medals and fourteen world records.

It was this kind of determination that soon propelled him to conquer a whole new field. He became the first disabled person ever admitted to the National College of Physical Education, and then a full-fledged Medical Doctor, specializing in Orthopedic Sports Injuries, with a degree from prestigious Trinity College.

Encouraged to study voice by his father, Ronan won both the John McCormick Cup for Tenor Voice and the BBC talent show Go For It less than one year after beginning to study music. The following year, Ronan won the prestigious International Operatic Singing Competition in Maumarde, France. His debut Sony album became a top five hit in two weeks, going platinum shortly thereafter. Ronan has just completed his autobiography to be published in February of 2001. Ronan’s second solo CD; will also be distributed worldwide in February 2001.

Ronan says "I want people to realize that regardless of what infirmity or disability, it should never stop you from doing what you want to do. You can mentally make your mind strong enough to overcome any obstacle that comes your way. Make a deal with yourself to take risks, because when you do and it come out right, boy it’s some buzz!."

[3catsanadog]

How soon before the ACLU files suit that a presidential funeral cannot have anything to do with a church, synagogue (mosques and wiccan circles are OK, though), no eulogies can use the terms "God," "heaven," or mention the faith and religion of the one who has died, clergy will be banned from all events, and so on.

Once the left start whining about how much this is costing the American taxpayer and subtly - then loudly - suggesting that this particular funeral was pumped up by the Republican Party for political purposes, the ACLU will be all over this.

Personally, I don't like imagining that this may happen; however, we've all seen the extreme antics of the left go full bore since Dubya was elected. So nothing will surprise me anymore.

And to the ones who hate God-talk and anything Christian? Well, now it's OUR turn to use their smug line when we object to obscene garbage on TV.

Don't like it? CHANGE THE CHANNEL!!!!

[BigSkyFreeper]

The National Cathedral is a world symbol of our country's Freedom Of Religion, therefore, Islam is represented. The Cathedral is a multidenominational cathedral.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Probably at the geneaology website, whose URL escapes me, run by the Mormon Church. When doing searches there, it helps to know names and places.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Here

[churchillbuff]

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-PAT BUCHANAN:

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Goodbye to 'The Gipper'
Posted: June 9, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Hopeful, big-hearted, idealistic – daring, decent and fair."

So Ronald Reagan said of America in his second inaugural address. And so it shall be said of him.


He came from another time and place, Ronald Reagan did, a time long ago when love of country was as natural for a boy growing up in Illinois as was a faith that nothing was beyond the capacity of the great and good people whence he had come.

He had a lifelong love affair with America, with her history, heroes, stories and legends. Now he is now one of those legends.

In life and as an actor, he always relished romantic and heroic roles, whether as the lifeguard who pulled 77 swimmers to safety, the legendary George Gipp of Knute Rockne's Notre Dame or the statesman who walked out of a summit meeting in Iceland rather than compromise the security of the country he was elected to protect.

When America began to tear herself apart over morality, race and Vietnam in the 1960s, the old certitudes he articulated and the old virtues he personified held a magnetic attraction for a people bewildered by what was happening to their country. When he spoke, he took us to a higher ground, above petty and partisan squabbles and divisions, where we could dream again and be a people again.

In the crushing defeat of Barry Goldwater in 1964, Reagan's speech of blazing defiance vaulted him into the leadership of the conservative movement. And after Watergate, defeat in Vietnam, the Soviet empire rampant and America held hostage, the country, unready for Reagan or conservatism in 1964, took a chance in 1980.

And when she did, America won the lottery.

With the help of tough Paul Volcker at the Federal Reserve, Ronald Reagan's tax cuts, after they took effect in 1983, ignited a 17-year boom unlike any in the 20th century. America was back.

Reagan's sunny persona, his grace under fire after the attempt on his life, endeared him to his countrymen. When he came out of the anesthesia after the surgery to remove the bullet so near his heart, he looked up at the nervous nurses hovering over him and said, "OK, let's do the whole scene over again, beginning at the hotel."

His refusal to compromise principle, his resolve to restore the morale and might of the armed forces of which he was now commander in chief, converted America to conservatism and created a constituency all his own: Reagan Democrats. I do not know if Ronald Reagan would have cared that they named that building in Washington after him, but he would have loved that big aircraft carrier.

In the 1960s, it was a handicap in a presidential campaign to be a conservative. Republicans shied away from the label a hostile media had equated with extremism. With Reagan, it was an honor. He was never embarrassed or ashamed at being a man of the right.

Every year, he would speak at CPAC. In every State of the Union, he demanded a line be inserted calling for an amendment to the constitution to protect the life of the unborn. He believed God had spared him and that the time left to him was to be spent doing God's work here on earth.

Where other politicians feared to tred on the battlegrounds of philosophy and principle, Reagan rushed in. Nominated in 1980, he demanded a "no pale pastels" platform – and then ran on it.

He had a wonderful sense of humor, and he loved stories. Seconds before going out to face the press in prime-time news conferences 80 million Americans and the whole world would watch, he was still telling jokes. He was devoid of ego and of the boastfulness so common in this capital. "There is no limit to how far a man can go," read a plaque in his office, "so long as he is willing to let someone else get the credit."

What did he achieve? Ronald Reagan let the American eagle soar. He cut tax rates from 70 percent to 28 percent, restored our spirit, rebuilt the armed forces into the most formidable the world had ever seen and led us to bloodless victory in the Cold War. Time declared Mikhail Gorbachev Man of the Decade. America knows better.

Branded by a hostile city as "an amiable dunce," he paid no heed. He was more concerned with what his friends at Human Events wrote than what his adversaries at the Washington Post or the New York Times said.

He was warned that his determination to challenge the Soviet Empire philosophically, and strategically in Afghanistan, Angola and Nicaragua, risked war. Yet this 70-year-old man who began his presidency calling the Soviet Union an evil empire ended it strolling through Red Square arm-in-arm with the last leader of that empire.

A British statesman once said all political lives end in failure. As always, Ronald Reagan is the exception. We shall not see his like again.

[Libertina]

Big BUMP for "all that God talk." LOL

[NonValueAdded]

Oh great, now you are bringing the Mormons into the service. Next thing we'll have shamans, buddists and druids too! :)

[3catsanadog]

On some other board, some Reagan hater claimed that he had unarmed college kids killed in California. I didn't have time to reply with a question asking for more detail on this.

Anyone know anything about this? Or is this high IQ wannabe leftist mixing him up with Nixon and California with Ohio.

[BigSkyFreeper]

If you do record it, record it on CSPAN, that will save you the agony of having to listen to Left winged secularist psychobabble media wonks yammering over the top of the service.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Sounds like the Kent State Vietnam protest, penned in a song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, titled Ohio.

[3catsanadog]

He's one of the 3 Irish Tenors, I believe. Isn't he the baldish one?

[BigSkyFreeper]

Radar O'Reilly: What's a Druid?

Hawkeye Pierce: They worship trees.

:)

[churchillbuff]

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[ALOHA RONNIE]

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'Mansions of the Lord' Finale at tomorrow's REAGAN Memorial Ceremony =

'Mansions of the Lord' Finale in
"WE WERE SOLDIERS" by Randall Wallace and Nick-Glennie Smith


Now more than ever it's...


MEL's -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=39081

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[churchillbuff]

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[sinkspur]

God Almighty, that's the best thing Pat Buchanan has ever written!

What a tribute!

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