Today is the 9th anniversary of the day Ronald Reagan passed away

http://www.foxnews.com ^ | june 5, 2013

[lowbridge]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,121883,00.html

[DoughtyOne]

[DoughtyOne]

[Ezekiel]

“The outburst of national grief on account of his death became proverbial”

From Easton’s Dictionary (King Josiah)

[workerbee]

The very first vote I cast was for Ronald Reagan

Me too.

We should be thankful that we got to see one of very last "national" great ones. From here on out, it's all about whatever the individual/family/ community can sustain of Judeo-Christian values.

[TSgt]

A part of the Great Shining City on the Hill died that day.

[TSgt]

“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth – Put out my hand and touched the Face of God.”

Challenger: President Reagan’s Challenger Disaster Speech - 1/28/86
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa7icmqgsow

[MacMattico]

9 years ago President Reagan died
10 years ago next week my father died

For me, two great influences growing up who I don’t think would recognize the country today.

As a kid things seem so easy and obvious. I remember being 10 and they said on the news Carter was up by something like 15 points. I thought to myself what are they talking about, there is no way Jimmy Carter even comes close to beating this great man. I think that’s when I started seeing the mainstream media for what it is.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

Oh my, has it been that long? We were on vacation on a sailing trip and we stayed in the marina an extra day so that my family could watch the funeral services on TV. I had been a delegate for him in 1976 and had met him on a number of occasions. I think it was the first time my boys saw me cry.

[4mybiz]

My first vote was for Reagan too. Sadly, I wasn’t politically aware, and voted for him because he seemed kind, humorous, and quick witted. The second time I voted for him, I had just become a mother and believed he was making a safer world for my little girl.

[MacNaughton]

The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia, PA, at the Pennsylvania State House/ Independence Hall from 5/25-9/17/1787 for the purpose of drafting a new constitution to succeed the Articles of Confederation. George Washington was unanimously elected by the delegates to serve as the convention president. Washington presided over the convention while sitting in a mahogany chair crafted by John Folwell in 1779. James Madison, who presented the blueprint for the new Constitution and kept copious notes of the debate, reported that delegate Benjamin Franklin, near the conclusion of the convention, said: "I have often looked at that (a headboard carved with the face of the sun) behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now I ... know that it is a rising ... sun."

Outside Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, PA, when the Constitutional Convention was nearing adjournment in September 1787, Mrs. Powel asked delegate Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin sharply replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."

The final memorial service and interment of POTUS #40 RWR took place on 6/11/2004 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA. The service was broadcast live on network TV stations. During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II formed a successful alliance which contributed to the internal collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the end of the 44 year Cold War. After the conclusion of the graveside service, the mourners filed by Reagan’s casket to pay their final respects. Lady Thatcher paused before his casket then turned her head to the left to gaze over the Pacific Ocean at the setting sun as it was literally slipping below the horizon.

Four plus years after POTUS #40 RWR’s death and 221 years after the Constitution was drafted, Barack Hussein Obama was elected as the 44th POTUS.

[JimRed]

Are liberals still celebrating?