Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.
-- General George S. Patton
June 05, 2004
One For The Gipper
The 40th President of the United States has passed on. Ronald Wilson Reagan died today at the age of 93. President Reagan (born Feb.6, 1911 died June 5, 2004) suffered from Alzheimer’s and was fighting pneumonia. The Gipper passed on at 1:09 p.m. (PST) in his home in California.
I was just five and a half years old when Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president of the United States. I don’t remember the elections, I don’t remember him taking the oath of office and in fact I have few memories of seeing him speak on television. I was just fourteen when Reagan left the oval office. Like most teenagers I didn’t have much interest in politics. Most of what I know about Ronald Reagan has been learned more than experienced. .
As a member of the military I have come to appreciate all that Ronald Reagan stood for. He is responsible for most of the great equipment and training that we have in today’s military. While many leftists bitched that the Reagan administration was spending too much money his administration was further solidifying America's position as the premier military and nation on Earth.
During the Clinton era it was all too common to hear the "old timers" say that things were much better when Reagan was president.
I have grown to learn that President Reagan is solely responsible for most of our state of the art equipment in today's military. The military under Reagan was reshaped and revitalized. We owe a great debt to this great man.
Reagan’s efforts as President of the United States helped lead to the collapse of communism in its most deadly form; the fall of the Soviet Union is just one of the many fruitful results of the Reagan era. Reagan once challenged Mikhail Gorbachev, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” The Berlin wall did fall, as did the iron curtain. Communism while still realism in some countries is no more in the once all-powerful former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Ronald Reagan was a man of insight. And while not everyone may have agreed with his views or his party’s politics he was a great President and truly is a national treasure.
Rest in peace Mr. President
SlagleRock Out!
Although I never agreed with Reagans politics and I thought he was a far better actor than politican,I still respect the man as the 40th Presidaent of the U.S. My flag is at half staff and my prayers go out to his loved ones.
Posted by: Bob at June 5, 2004 06:17 PMPresident Reagan placed this nation above all other concerns and never wavered in his commitment to freedom for the U.S. and the world.
George Bush has a lot of those qualities and will probably be as great a president.
Ronald Reagan set a standard that the the current line up of Marxists and Marxist Appeasers can look up to and emulate.
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