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To: A CA Guy
Nancy putting her head earlier on Ronnie's flag draped coffin was very touching for me today.
They were not only wonderful servants of the people, but had a real story book romance.

Once I opened my eyes and saw Nancy looking down at me. "Honey," I said, "I forgot to duck," borrowing Jack Dempsey's line to his wife the night he was beaten by Gene Tunney for the heavyweight championship. Seeing Nancy in the hospital gave me an enormous lift. As long as I live I will never forget the thought that rushed into my head as I looked up into her face. Later I wrote it down in my diary: "I pray I'll never face a day when she isn't there of all the ways God had blessed me, giving her to me was the greatest - beyond anything I can ever hope to deserve."

--Ronald Reagan

44 posted on 06/08/2004 5:27:21 AM PDT by Samwise (The day may come when the courage of men fails...but it is not this day. This day we fight!)
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To: Samwise

Yep, behind this great man was a wonderful and loyal wife.


56 posted on 06/08/2004 11:33:34 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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