Looks like we'll soon we'll only be down to one left.
Posted on 08/12/2015 1:44:31 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
One guy higher up in the thread is going to be praying for Jimmy and I trust that freeper. So I’m good.
Looks like we'll soon we'll only be down to one left.
He has Obama?
Yes, his family had a history of Cancer that took his relatives fairly young.
I confess, I bawled like a baby when I saw that. I think a good portion of America was mourning right there with her, and not only for Ron. But the country he left behind.
He had a lot of the honest Christian conservatives voting for him based on his credentials, including my parents. I don’t think they voted for him in 1980, though.
I thought he had cancer of the brain during his presidency.
90 is a good run.
No counting Jimmuh, we still have 2 Bushes and a Clinton.
But those four were endowed with superpowers when struck by lightning at a celebrity golf tournament.
There is no viable treatment for cancer that has spread through out the body. You might get a few more crappy months with chemo.
I agree with you, but I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone ever doing that.
Reagan timed it perfectly with the setting sun. The use of Battle Hymn of the Republic as a dirge in DC, then as a spiritual at the National Cathedral, and finally as an inspirational march at the interment (go halfway to the 5:40 mark) was quite a moving theme throughout.
The Reagan Library is a beautiful place.
-PJ
One of the defining moments of my life was going to try to pay my respects to Reagan as he lay in state at his Library. My oldest son, a young teen at the time, and I left our home in LA at midnight and drove up. We heard the line was shorter from the north so we went around.
The line was the “slow lane” on the 118. Cars in a single line for miles and miles. From both directions. The talk radio station was talking of nothing else. We sat in the car for five hours (yes there were bushes available on the side of the road and everyone was using them when necessary) and at that point we had reached the exit to the Reagan Library Parking Lot, where you could be loaded onto a bus for the journey to the ranch and the procession past his casket.
But it was 5:00 and Dad needed to leave for work in 30 minutes, and there were two little children sleeping at home. So we had to go home. As we drove back toward L.A., the line of cars on the other side of the road just went on for so many miles I started crying at the sight.
All of these people. Waiting ALL NIGHT LONG. Not for a concert or sporting event. Not to be seen on TV. No one would ever know they were there. They just wanted to walk past the casket of a man they respected. They missed an entire night of sleep for that privilege and some like us probably didn’t even make it.
It was so touching to see the word HONOR acted out so clearly, in the dark of night when people usually are hunkering down in their own comfortable beds. I will never forget that. There IS good in this world.
Prayers for President Carter and his family.
-PJ
Horrible.
Probably the 2nd worst president, but still.
Or the Million people killed in the Iran/Iraq war, which would not have happened but for Jimmy Carter.
Would not wish that on anyone, streak thru the sky well
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