My Tribute to Ronald Reagan, The Gipper

JEFFHEAD.COM ^ | June 5, 2004 | Jeff Head

[jwalsh07]

THE CIC AND HIS MEN

[pctech]

The last great president (no offense President Bush) has passed into God's waiting arms. May he be blessed in his eternal reward, and may his family know God's love and peace in their time of sorrow.

[areafiftyone]

First president I ever voted for and will forever be proud of my vote. We will miss you greatly. God Bless President Reagan. Rest in Peace with the Angels for you surely are one of them.

[backhoe]

Thanks, Jeff... God bless.

[Jeff Head]

Exactly! Muitliply that by millions and the work proceeds at a rapid pace.

[betty boop]

...[that] sterling light, [that] great shining beacon on a hill has gone out.

No it hasn't, Jeff, because the entire meaning and purpose of Ronald Reagan's public life was to make sure it didn't. He was there to "pass the torch"; from "the Greatest Generation" to its descendants two generations "behind." God bless Ronald Reagan for his intelligence, wisdom, humanity, and undeniable ability in the highest executive office on the face of this planet. He literally changed the dynamics of the world, for the better -- in the interests of liberty, peace, and justice.

But we must not fail to recognize the fact that Ronald Reagan, when things got dicey, got plenty of help from like-minded friends -- Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher; and His Holiness the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, John Paul II. May God bless all of these extraordinary human beings.

Somehow I'm tempted to feel that Ronald Reagan's passing leaves the world the poorer. He was a man of principle and impeccable devotion to the ideas that made and make America a truly great country and society.

But then I think, judging by his record which is now history, he did successfully manage to "pass the baton" to succeeding generations. If that is so then, God willing, America will persist and flourish for yet another 200 years.

God Bless America. And God Bless Ronald Reagan.

[Jeff Head]

Thanks, Jim. He did indeed restore pride and faith and love for our country...at a time when the other side had laid us very low indeed.

God's hand was with Ronald Reagan IMHO...and still is, only now it is grasping his and pulling him into a warm embrace.

[ScaniaBoy]

You are so right.

I made my first visit to the USA in 1985. I was welcomed by President Reagan's cheerful face in the passageway at JFK. Just that made me feel that there was something special in the air.

And then; the bouncing, positive attitude that I found everywhere I traveled. The country was positively buzzing.

Not at all what you had been expected to find, if you watched the broadcast news in Sweden or Britain. And certainly not the malaise that we had been used to associate with the US ever since the Vietnam war, Watergate, Carter etc.

Instead it was the "can do" mentality of the US of the late 1800s which had lasted to the Kennedy years, and now reinvented by the Reagan revolution after some sad decades.

Ronald Reagan was truly a Great American, and thus, a great man. It is a sad day when such a man passes away, but we have to console ourselves with the fact that we have been blessed with his presence.

ScaniaBoy

[Jeff Head]

""Some people are going to try to make age an issue in this campaign. But I will not hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him"

I remember that debate! Reagan was in a class all his own, head and shoulders above the likes of Mondale.

[Jeff Head]

God bless you for such a tribute...the song of the heart is a prayer to Heaven.

[Admin Moderator]

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[Jeff Head]

Yes it does...to inspire the rising generation, or those in it with the virtue to see and be inspired by such good to actions of their own as they are called upon and as they are needed.

[Jeff Head]

Thank you both!

Ronald Reagan was a true American hero.

[MeekOneGOP]

Rest in peace, Ronald Reagan .....

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Breaking thread .....

Ronald Reagan Dies at 93

[Grampa Dave]

I doubt if many of us would be around today if Ronald Reagan had not been our president for two years.

If Jimmy Carter had served for one more term:

Our military would have been weakened beyond repair.

Our economy would have been destroyed.

The language of our land would have been Russian, Mandarian and Farsi.

President Reagan buried the Soviet Bear and contained the other communists.

President Reagan was a good and gentle man, who loved America and his fellow Americans.



God Bless you President Reagan!

[VOA]

Aye Ronnie, we're glad we knew ye!

[Jeff Head]

Thanks so much...and I agree about the photo.

[SoDak]

Wow, I just found out. Even though he's suffered with the disease for so long, and has been out of sight, I still feel stunned of the country's loss. Goodbye, Mr. President.