Happy 100th Birthday President Reagan!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the peaceful life that I have lived these past 47 years. As a college student in the 80’s, I was worried that the world would be melted down into nuclear oblivion — but, whew! Not so with you at the helm. Due to YOUR strength and ability to stand up to the evil in this world, we made it just fine ...and my husband and I married and raised a family during one of the most peaceful and prosperous times in our nation.
Not sure about the future now, however. My next 40 may not be quite as comfortable or quite as secure. But with you in our memories, maybe many of us will gather the courage and strength to fight off the same old evil ...and ensure that our children will be able to live in a world as peaceful and propperous as we have enjoyed.
My husband and I made a trip into in East Germany at the time the wall fell (he was stationed in Germany at the time). We were young, but I’ll never forget the scenes of East Germans who had packed up all they had into one or two suitcases and lined up to cross into the West at the Brandenburg gate. They were SO joyful, and nervous ..but mostly just joyful to be able to see their relatives to see FREEDOM. They were all so ragtag and unhealthy looking — but this is what communism does to people.
And THAT was what Reagan did for THOSE people ...not just us here in the States. He gave the gift of freedom to others as well.