The TV and radio were off. I had been composing a text document offline. I logged onto FR/My comments and saw a thread from mhking's ping list with the announcement.
Sitting right here. FR is the only place I'd have wanted to be anyhow, but I'd just logged on for a few moments...honest...seven hours ago.
Kind of weird, I admit, but at least it will always help me remember where I was.
I don't know how to truly express this loss to our country........
When I logged on to FR it was the first thread I saw. I didn't have the news on so that was the first I had heard of it.
I was with members of O.S.O.T., having lunch at Galloping Gertie's after a support the troups gathering on the bridge outside Ft. Lewis. The horse race (on TV)was interrupted with the news. We all bowed our heads and said a prayer for this wonderful soul, a gift from God to this nation and the world. May his legacy live on and on and on.....
I caught original wind of the fact that it was not a good day when I logged on to a local news & discussion website.
I had just gotten home in disgust after a going-away party for my cousin (a marine), who is going to Iraq for one year after having served throughout the Afgan war.
What made me so disgusted is that his scuzzy mother and grandparents keep telling him, "I hate Bush! We have no business there! Iraq isn't worth a single American life!"
What these scumbags are really telling him is that HE has no business there, and that HIS sacrifice is worthless and there is no good in what HE is doing.
I left early, but I hope his patriotic enthusiasm holds up against their evil Democrap barrage.
I hate all liberals and Demoncrats!
God bless and keep our greatest president ever; Ronald W. Reagan!
I love you, Mr. President. Take our struggles up to God with you, and, as you look down upon us, pray for our country.
My husband and I were at a car wash in Erie, PA...waiting for the detailing to get done..they had a TV in the waiting room...how sad...this world is an emptier place without the Gipper! May the Lord comfort Nancy and his family....
I just poseted on the other thread - I was at the Belmont Stakes race. 100,000+ people there, they put the notice up on the large screen TVs and public address system. All rose, you could here a pin drop as we stood for the moment of silence, the flag at the track was lowered to half staff.
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.
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.
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.
I was at my in-laws house visiting.