[RWR8189]

God bless the Gipper and his family.

[AnAmericanMother]

The Eagle That Is Forgotten

By Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

SLEEP softly … eagle forgotten … under the stone.
Time has its way with you there, and the clay has its own.
“We have buried him now,” thought your foes, and in secret rejoiced.
They made a brave show of their mourning, their hatred unvoiced.
They had snarled at you, barked at you, foamed at you, day after day.
Now you were ended. They praised you … and laid you away.

The others, that mourned you in silence and terror and truth,
The widow bereft of her crust, and the boy without youth,
The mocked and the scorned and the wounded, the lame and the poor,
That should have remembered forever,… remember no more.

Where are those lovers of yours, on what name do they call,
The lost, that in armies wept over your funeral pall?
They call on the names of a hundred high-valiant ones,
A hundred white eagles have risen, the sons of your sons.
The zeal in their wings is a zeal that your dreaming began,
The valor that wore out your soul in the service of man.

Sleep softly … eagle forgotten … under the stone.
Time has its way with you there, and the clay has its own.
Sleep on, O brave-hearted, O wise man that kindled the flame—
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name,
To live in mankind, far, far more than to live in a name!—

[N8VTXNinWV]

Amen! I love Ronnie. God bless him.

[nmh]

That's heartbreaking to hear. He is a wonderful man.

I think he will be going to heaven soon. When a person sleeps like that, with an illness like that, it's his body shutting down. Hopefully he'll go peacefully in his sleep while having a beautiful dream.

[My2Cents]

[Brett66]

I consider this man my ideological father. He's the reason I believe in the ideas I do today. I wish he could live forever, it's going to be tough on me when he finally passes. My eyes are misting as I type this....

[Toskrin]

[The South Texan]

This almost makes me cry, but I know he will soon be in a better place.

I'll never forget the President I grew up watching on TV and admiring. Thank God we have another man in office now that has the same respect for me and others that loved President Reagan. I'll gag if a Democrat President has eulogize Presdent Reagan much like Clinton had eulogize President Nixon.

[pctech]

I agree, God bless this great man, he is sorely missed.

[xp38]

One of the constants since I joined FR has been Reagan threads and I always enjoy looking for interesting photos. This one was captioned from the 1950s.

[Kirkwood]

The end is probably weeks or at most a few months away. I am from an Alzheimer's family and am very familar with the end stage. God bless you, Ronald Reagan.

[yonif]

God Bless Ronald Reagan.