Long live Ronald Reagan.
Posted on 06/05/2004 2:23:01 PM PDT by doug from upland
MIDI - DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING
Every now and then we find that a great leader comes along
One who has greatness that we celebrate in poetry and song
He grew up in the Midwest and he had learned his lessons well
But how far he would go nobody could really tell
His accomplishments were growing but he’s not one who would boast
He learned that a man’s character is what is valued most
And he’s led his life with an honor that we can admire
Ronald Reagan we love you…and you are loved around the world
Thanks to your vision flags of freedom everywhere have been unfurled
We will all raise up our glass, here’s a salute from one and all
Long live your legacy – The Man Who Brought Down the Wall
There’s a natural right of men…that right is all men shall live free
Because freedom makes each person all the best that he can be
One president knew that much better than anyone else
Ronald Reagan we love you…and you are loved around the world
Thanks to your vision flags of freedom everywhere have been unfurled
We will all raise up our glass, here’s a salute from one and all
Long live your legacy – The Man Who Brought Down the Wall
Ronald Reagan we love you…and you are loved around the world
Thanks to your vision flags of freedom everywhere have been unfurled
We will all raise up our glass, here’s a salute from one and all
Long live your legacy – The Man Who Brought Down the Wall
You’re loved by all
Long live Ronald Reagan.
Simply beautiful Doug....my favorite music and so fitting for our beloved President. I just walked in and heard the news...Actually I feel safer knowing he is his old self watching us from above. God bless this wonderful man. Prayers for Nancy and their children.
:( Rest in peace, Sir.
That music is the only one I believe that is inspiring enough for this man's legacy. It was not chosen by accident.
Not bad at all.
Plus, it just happens to be one of my favorite musicals, and probably the best novel written during the entire 19th Century.
It's astonishing to look back on the geopolitical leadership we had in those days:
-Mulroney
-Kohl
-Thatcher
-Lee Kuan Yee
and the greatest of them all,
Ronald Reagan.
They're all gone, with Baroness Thatcher also in a fragile physical state.
Hopefully, his legacy will endure and remain with us beyond a few hundred meaningless landmarks that bear his name. They may be nice symbolic gestures, but I think a much better way of keeping his flame burning would be to agitate for the conservative aims that eluded him in office.
I say we start with the Supreme Court and revive the Human Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Reagan: I think he should pay them.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
I know a lot of people criticize him for appointing Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court-and I agree that both were horrible choices for a position that is essentially one of nine chief jurists for the entire nation-but these same people hardly ever give him credit for nominating Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia to become associate justices on the same court.
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds -- and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of -- wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
--John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922-1941)
Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so!
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