Posted on 06/05/2004 3:05:55 PM PDT by Jeff Head
You are spot on with that one my friend, he shall never be forgotten.
You are welcome.
Nicely done, Jeff.
My flag flies on a 6-8 foor pole at an angle from the front of the house and is not adjustable so I had to do a quick reqorking of it since it wasn't set up to fly at half staff. But it is now.
This loss is personal, not the least of which reason is the near despair I felt for my country after the Carter years and the constant diminishment of us, the citizenry, by the person who was supposed to lead. This President did indeed lift us up. Jeff, he gave us back the country we all loved and were losing. What greater gift?
Let's Win One for the Gipper
Notre Dame Football Coach ROCKNE:
Well, boys ... I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years -- None of you ever knew George Gipp. It was long before your time.
But you know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame... And the last thing he said to me -- "Rock," he said -
"sometime, when the team is up against it -- and the breaks are beating the boys -- tell them to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock", he said -"but I'll know about it - and I'll be happy."
There is a hushed stillness as Rockne and the crowd of boys look at each other.
PLAYER # 12: Well, what are we waiting for?
With a single roar, the players rushed through the doorway.
I was ten when he dabated Mondale. I watched it on TV (I started following politics early in life) and I still remember the following one liners:
"There you go again."
"Some people are going to try to make age an issue in this campaign. But I will not hold my oppoonent's youth and inexperience against him."
Viva President Ronald Reagan!
The good that men do lives after them. A wonderful tribute, Jeff. Thank you.
Well done.
perfect stranger: Precious!!
Thank you Jeff for that wonderful tribute! I think the photo that you selected truly represents the spirit of the man.
God bless and rest you Ronald Reagan...and God comfort and keep you Nancy.
Amen.
Drive-by mega ping for a very worthy thread.
What a blessing he was to this country, indeed, to this world. He set the bar high and I am grateful that I was alive during his presidency.
We know that it is a blessing that he has been called Home. May he rest in peace and may God comfort his family, his friends and this country as we morn his passing.
Brings a tear to my eye.
What a man he was...a true American hero.
Okay..I am tearing up here.
Thanks Jeff.
Thanks for the ping. Already on it. Sniff!
Thank you...my few words are glaringly inadequate...at a time like this almost any words, regardless of eloqunce, are inadequate...but they are what is in my heart and the best I can utter at this time.
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