Posted on 06/05/2004 6:55:30 PM PDT by al baby
I Just a thought this could be a place to share where and what you were doing today when you learned of His passing I think this will be like when JFK was killed the shuttles going down and the wtc and the Pentagon attacks We will never forget
We were getting ready to watch the Belmont Stakes and Smarty Jones win the Triple Crown (which alas, did not happen), when the sad announcement came on Fox News.
I had just arrived back home form visiting my mother, called mom to let her know I had arrived home, and she she told me the sad news.
Right here... just now.
I woke up, logged on to FR. It was not a good way to start Sunday morning.
I had logged off FR and was working in the garden for a while. Then I went to my study to work on some items of interest and the radio is always on. It was Brinker's announcement.
Sitting in Jason's Deli eating dinner with my wife. I had my back to the TV and she kept staring at it. I turned around and saw CNN with the A Memory of Ronald Reagan Headline. I shrugged it off at first figuring it was CNN playing games again trying to get an up on the competetion by putting a very sick man prematurely in his grave.
Then it got real quiet in the deli. Real quiet. Reverently quiet. No dishes rattling, no orders being yelled. I could here the hear the drink fountain cooler from across the room it was so hushed. Then I knew.
I had just visited the library with my son when I heard the news in my car on the local Christian station that Reagan had taken a turn for the worse. That was at 1pm Central time.
The next time I turn on the radio, it was after getting a prescription filled. They were announcing that Reagan was gone, and I heard it around 4:50pm Central. It's the sort of thing you know is going to happen soon but never expect it once it does happen.
BTW, who was the poet from which Reagan was quoting when he gave a speech for the Challenger victims in '86, and he said something like "They slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of God." How Reagan delivered that speech made an 11-year old like me cry. It was that touching.
That is so awesome. I hate to say it but if I had been at Belmont and one jerk had said "Good!" or anything close I would have probably decked them.
With friends like that who needs enemies.
Reading articles on FR, when the local station broke in to announce his death.
Freeping. Of course, later this evening my sister-in-law had to p*ss me off by b*tching about how that "bastard" started taxing unemployment benefits. Just held my tongue.
After I read that Reagan passed I watched the various news stations to see how they covered the news. Dan Rather ticked me off when he said "Reagan left the White House a very popular president but left a large deficit and a recession that was looming in the near furture". Rather just cannot hide his left tilt using his death to get in a last dig or two.
I was at my in-laws house visiting.
Sitting right here at my computer,
when admiralsn and Meek both
posted to me that he had died.
I suddenly wasn't in a hurry anymore, stopped in my tracks to listen to the news, my eyes immediately tearing up...
I had just woken up and found an SMS on my phone from a friend of mine.
I was at my office working, and just checked into Free Republic. My first reaction was the save the FreeRepublic main page for posterity.
foreverfree
Me, I was cruising down the road with the wind in my hair, 70 mph down the freeway, blasting my local Hard Rock station (shout out to TK101), having spent the day out in the sun.
Suddenly, my fun stopped. The DJ came over the air following "Smells Like Teen Spirit", and informed me that Ronald Reagan had dies about 90 minutes prior. My jaw dropped, and my eyes watered up.
I turned the radio off and said a little prayer, and I made my way home to mourn President Reagan.
I was home from work for about 20 minutes, had just logged off of FreeRepublic, was getting ready to grab two beers from the fridge to go outside and BS a bit with a friend.
My wife was watching Fox News channel and told me. I glued myself to the television for about a half an hour then logged back onto FreeRepublic.
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