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God, I miss Ronald Reagan. He was my commander in chief for 8 of my 20 years of active duty.

I was blessed to be in the AF, eight years of which were when Reagan was at the helm. I'm sure you remember as I do the crushed sense of morale we in uniform felt during the miserable, dark Carter years... a condition lifted briskly away with the election and inauguration of President Reagan. Remember that "adults are in charge" feeling upon seeing Reagan recite the Oath of Office? What a great time!

Oh, yeah. I well remember what it felt like. Held down with Carter nothing % pay raises. Reagan gave us two large pay raises to get us above the water line a bit. Then when he put the Soviets on notice, man what a feeling to have a real leader in charge for a change. During the Iran thing I was as mad at the heads in DC as I have ever been. We just sat on our butts and looked totally helpless. Like we were pleading with them to not hurt us. Stinking Carter. One of the things that I struggle with in my Christian faith is to love my enemies. I pray about that all the time, asking God to forgive for my failures to do that enough. It is hard to love someone like Carter and his DIMOcrats when they are wanting to destroy you and your way of life. Like agreeing to commit suicide or something. I just struggle with that every minute of the day. God tells me I have to love them, but man it is hard. Soooooo hard to do.