[JohnHuang2]

Drive-by mega ping for a very worthy thread.

[areafiftyone]

Thanks for the ping. Already on it. Sniff!

[jwalsh07]

THE CIC AND HIS MEN

[MeekOneGOP]

Rest in peace, Ronald Reagan .....

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Breaking thread .....

Ronald Reagan Dies at 93

[Peach]

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Ronald Reagan

[JulieRNR21]

We were in church (4pm Mass) when President Reagan went home to the 'shining city on the hill.' Learned of it when we turned on the TV looking for the Belmont race.

A couple of weeks ago before we heard that his health had deteriorated so much....I dreamer he died on Memorial Day. But his timing was better than my dream imagined.

How fitting that he was called home to Our Lord on the eve of the anniversary of D-Day. All the leaders of the world are gathered at the place where President Reagan gave his most moving & eloquent speech.

In our computer room there is a 'Reagan Shrine' of photographs in a tall bookcase. I always think of him when I'm at the PC Freeping because of that 'shrine'.......now I look at it blurred by my tears.

He was the greatest president of my lifetime.
He inspired us all to be proud to be Americans and Conservatives.

He believed in the goodness and greatness of the American people.....I pray that his passing will rekindle the memory of that spirit! And that those too young to have known his greatness will learn of it this week.

Godspeed.....Ronaldus Maximus.

[SierraWasp]

Soon after I came to CA in 1964 from the heartland of America (NE), I was very wary of "The Land of Fruits and Nuts!" Especially when I couldn't get home to Napa from work one night because I-80 was backed up from San Francisco past Berkeley, back past Vallejo, over the coastal hills to the east all the way to the Travis AFB in Fairfield!

I turned the radio on to see what the problem was and learned that LBJ was making an appearance in SFO to actually win an election to be POTUS. I supported Goldwater and was REALLY pist off!!! Headed the other way was an old beat-out pick-up truck and a U-Haul trailer with 4X8 foot sheets of plywood stood on end to hold what looked like a poor family's every earthly possession. On the back sheet was the following message: "We're going back to Nebraska where the bullshit is REAL!"

That almost convinced me to do the same, but in a couple of years an actor in Hollywood began a campaign for Governor of CA and I had learned to love him already as master of ceremonies on the GE theater TV program, along with his Death Valley Days and commercials for Boraxo soap. He also had made a great speech in support of Barry Goldwater, so I began to have hope for CA.

Skipping ahead to after Ronnie changed not only the State, but the world, I went to his library in 1999 searching for solace after losing my own bid for re-election. I learned even more and was reminded of something profound about President Reagan at that beautiful site.

Not only did he support individuality and free enterprise, he deeply admired those in this shining city on a hill that used their freedom to succeed and make this a stronger nation in the process. There is a huge plaque on one of the walls with the names of uncountable "Captains of Industry" that contributed from their fortunes to this "Mutual Admiration Society," much as the founding fathers pledged their fortunes and in their case, even their very lives to the cause of freedom.

A lot of people don't seem to like wealthy folks, but Ronald Reagan understood that it wasn't stubbornly proud "poor people" that had hired him to be an actor, announcer, or spokesman! He knew there was no pride in being poor and that in Ameirca you could change your life if you could get past instant gratification. Legal immigrants proved it constantly!

I believe... This is what gave the man his eternal sense of optimism and enthusiasm for America and it's Americans!!! The man was and is still an inspriration to me to study his ways. The Library has a school, or training system for youthful conservatives that I sincerely hope is still operating and producing another "Happy Warrior" for our near future.

See Jeff, your tribute is also inspiring... Thanks!!!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the ping, John.

Outstanding essay, Jeff, thanks so much.

Go thy great way!
The Stars thou meetst
Are even as Thyself --
For what are Stars but Asterisks
To point a human Life?
~Emily Dickinson

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bill Clinton's self-loving tome, "My Life," will look all the more putrid after what will be America's loving remembrances and goodbyes to Ronald Reagan, a man who truly loved his country.