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
Wow, that's wonderful. Thank you for that report. I saw on Fox News' crawl that there were 'tributes at the Belmont Stakes and at ball parks' across the country, but didn't see any actual coverage of these tributes.
Here.
Earlier today I had read about his turn for the worse and remember thinking that his time was likely near.
Then this afternoon I was in the kitchen when my husband called out from the next room that he had died. I was stunned and saddened. Voting for Reagan was the first Presidential election I participated in. I have to say though that it has been in the context of later events that I have come to value and appreciate Reagan's contribution more.
We got home from Walmart around 6ish and watched the Belmont Stakes. Immediately following the race coverage NBC ran a special report on his life, and I sat there and watched it in tears. Reagan is the first president I can remember (I was born Nov '76) so his passing has hit me hard. I don't believe we'll ever have another president quite like him.
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I had just returned home after taking my 14-year old daughter some 60 miles away to take the SAT for the 1st time. First thing I did I turned my PC on and was shocked by the news.
WOW
At work and on FR via the NASCAR thread.
Lowered Flag to half mast here at work.
CHeck out post 40
This is a little off topic but my wife is shouting in my ear that she remembers seeing Nancy on television saying, "This one's for the Gipper" in some context or another and I told her she's imagining things; what say y'all here????
When Reagan was president, I hated the man. I wrote editorials saying how he was going to lead us to nuclear war. I said he was going senile in 1987 when he gave that speech at the Berlin wall. I also mocked the military quite a bit in those years.
Then the Soviet Union collapsed. And I began the long process of admitting that conservatives were right.
I heard of Reagan's death when I looged on the computer after changing out of my Navy uniform, fresh from a day of doing reserve drill.
I dont know where you live but its Saturday here in California
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, come by Lafayette Park across the street from the White House at 6 PM.
Let's get this together for the Gipper!
KRD
I was posting on a board called "True Conservatism", and happened to check DRUDGE. It could not have been more than five minutes. He is the greatest President of the Twentieth Century. G-dspeed to Ronaldus Magnus and his family.
I was freeping with my good friends in the DC Chapter. I think in retrospect it was very appropriate. We won one for the Gipper.
What an incredible post (#38). Godspeed to your Marine cousin, about to leave for Iraq...
That poem was from a pilot killed in WWII. Magee was the name I think.
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