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Ronald Reagan Dies at 93

Posted on 06/05/2004 1:46:20 PM PDT by dogbyte12

ABC just announced :( Ronald Reagan was 93


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To: MeekOneGOP
This is sad news but the good about it is Ronald Reagan no longer suffers.

God bless Nancy and the Reagan family.

1,221 posted on 06/05/2004 6:05:41 PM PDT by Pippin (Bush/Cheney 2004)
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To: rodguy911
Give us just a short glimpse of what he was like.

You've already seen it... what he was in public, he was in private.

1,222 posted on 06/05/2004 6:05:43 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tagline shut down for renovations and repairs. Re-open June of 2001.)
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To: scott7278

Just out of curiosity, I trolled over to DU to see how they were spinning it. I'm sorry I did. On second thought, I'm glad I did. It shows the true evil we are up against. When a poster hijacks a Christian praise song ("I've got the joy joy joy joy down in my heart") to celebrate the death of a great, God fearing man (no matter what he thinks of his politics), it really puts things into clear perspective.


1,223 posted on 06/05/2004 6:06:39 PM PDT by armydoc
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To: Petronski
Only a diehard leftist could care about Clinton's life after reviewing the greatness that was Ronald Reagan.

Only a real political junkie would think of this angle on the day the Gipper died. Not that I disapprove. But, diehard leftists are the only ones who care about the 'Toons life anyway.

1,224 posted on 06/05/2004 6:06:42 PM PDT by RobFromGa (The Four Pillars of America; Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Reagan)
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To: My2Cents

Your so right ... it was an incredible time. I saw Thatcher two years ago walking down Belgravia Street in London. I was outside Plummers Pub having a pint when she walked by holding two shopping bags with two bodyguards behind her. Everyone got real quiet when she walked by and just kind of looked at her in awe and admiration, it was a real surreal moment. She carried her own shopping bags, I thought that was pretty cool considering she had two hulks walking with her and shes quite old now.


1,225 posted on 06/05/2004 6:06:50 PM PDT by muslims=borg (Exit strategies are for losers.)
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To: Osage Orange
"Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector."

Ronald Reagan

October 27, 1964

That's one of his best quotes.

1,226 posted on 06/05/2004 6:07:20 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: scott7278

A true figure of history has passed on. Those of us who experienced his presence should count ourselves lucky. An icon, a force, and a genuinely decent human being.

R.I.P.


1,227 posted on 06/05/2004 6:08:11 PM PDT by olorin
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To: Lando Lincoln
It's a little hard now to express what the morale of the country was like in the late 70's - humiliation in Vietnam and the Soviets and their European and Asian and American fellow-travelers just piling it on. Inflation, rising oil prices, and the entire international left dancing in the blood of those we sacrificed in a fight whose importance they are still desperate to deny. Jimmy the Mouth described it as a "malaise," and so it was, with him and his as a very good deal of the cause.

And then came...this guy. This corny, ex-actor, ex-governor who had had the guts to stand up to the protestors, this guy with the simple notion that all wasn't really lost, and who was actually crazy enough to believe that we could win the Cold War and even crazier enough to say it aloud. That we'd stop inflation along the way and turn back into the leaders of that trite old phrase, the "Free World."

That was Reagan. And he did it.

We will see, in the coming days, attempts by lesser lights to cast his in the shadows of their own limited imaginations. His was not.

1,228 posted on 06/05/2004 6:08:20 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: mware

It is morning in Heaven.

Perfectly stated. God bless you, Mr. President.

1,229 posted on 06/05/2004 6:09:05 PM PDT by nutmeg (Land of the Free - Thanks to the Brave)
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To: PGalt
I can't remember the day in the early 80's, but President Reagan was giving a speech in the Lincoln Park, Michigan Sears shopping center and I was in the crowd to listen to him. On a rainy night, that one live speech, changed my life. I started paying attention to politics, voted for President Reagan when he ran for the 2nd term and have never again voted for a Democrat...
yeah... like most, I wasn't in politics then, after watching President Reagan debating Mondale, I told my self "HOW DID I MISS THIS GREAT MAN?" :)
1,230 posted on 06/05/2004 6:10:24 PM PDT by Toidylop
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To: All

Until www.reaganvigil.com goes live late tonight or early tomorrow, here is a link to the website to organize candlelight vigils in hometowns across America and internationally.

http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/reagan/


We put it together in a hurry, so please forgive its lack of slick appeal, but it should get the job done.

Send it out to everyone you know, every list you've got so that folks can get together and start organizing vigils!

And if you are in Washington DC Sunday night (6/5), come by Lafayette Park across the street from the White House at 6 PM.

Let's get this together for the Gipper!

KRD


1,231 posted on 06/05/2004 6:10:52 PM PDT by ConservativeGadfly
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To: Alkhin
...I remember the Space Shuttle Challenger

I remember the Memorial Service. Oh, how I cried! The damn broke when President and Mrs. Reagan were shaking the hands of the family members and one of the astronaut's daughters fell into his arms in tears. The President put his arms around her. The warmth & compassion of that moment will stay with me forever.

1,232 posted on 06/05/2004 6:10:55 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: rodguy911

Next time you see him,
will you make a point to
tell him he is loved and
cherished?


1,233 posted on 06/05/2004 6:11:52 PM PDT by onyx
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To: Reddy

I wasn't old enough to vote in 1980 but I had a Reagan sticker on my bookbag.


1,234 posted on 06/05/2004 6:12:43 PM PDT by muslims=borg (Exit strategies are for losers.)
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To: Dog

{{{{{{Dog}}}}} Better watch out, Dog. I'm handing out kisses too.

Isn't it great to listen to all the terrific memorable stories about the greatest U.S. president ever?


1,235 posted on 06/05/2004 6:13:14 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: armydoc

They are the sluts, demons (pick your own negative, expressive noun) of this era. Forgive me Lord, but I wish an earthquake would come & consume them all!


1,236 posted on 06/05/2004 6:13:43 PM PDT by DollyCali ("What happens in Vegas, STAYS in Vegas". Laura Bush to Jay Leno May 2004)
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To: Wolfstar
Yes, I am a much happier person these past 20 years.

I shared that story because I have a feeling that most vets of my era experienced many of the same things.

The successful operation in Grenada was a healing and we all are so grateful for it.

Thank you for you comments. You have me teared up as well.

1,237 posted on 06/05/2004 6:13:48 PM PDT by Cold Heat ("62,400 repetitions make one truth"........(a Brave new World.... the liberal Lie)
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To: rintense

Brit is to be commended for his coverage and FOX overall.


1,238 posted on 06/05/2004 6:14:23 PM PDT by ptrey (It's July the 4th everyday.)
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To: Grenada
What an appropriate person to comment on President Reagan's untimely passing.

To think, there are still those implacable socialist hacks-I'm thinking specifically, of the freaks at the International Action Center, Institute for Policy Studies, and the National Lawyer's Guild-who lament our humanitarian intervention in Grenada during the Cold War.

It's astounding to think that there were actually people who thought that Ronald Reagan was being provocative by taking such action, in addition to other bold geopolitical maneuvers, including the deployment of Pershings in Western Europe, the production of the MX ballistic missile, the initiation of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the signing of the S.A.L.T. II treaty, etc., etc., which ensured the future survival of the United States and its cross-Atlantic partners.

God bless Ronald Reagan!

May his legacy endure.

1,239 posted on 06/05/2004 6:14:39 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (Don't let the light go out! Keep Taiwan strong and free!)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
I had to watch the aftershows, as I was in college then and had ot take a class during the ceremony. I also remember the bitching and moaning the fat cows in the dormintory were lowing because they were missing the ceremony.

If I had been smart then, I would have loathed THEM with all my heart...and told them a thing or two.

I plan to have my vengeance though : I have watched, I have recorded, I will teach...and there's nothing they can do about it.

1,240 posted on 06/05/2004 6:14:40 PM PDT by Alkhin (He thinks I need keeping in order)
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