Posted on 06/09/2004 10:21:40 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:16:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
He said goodbye to us in a letter that showed his great courage and love for America. Yet for his friends and his country, the parting comes only now. ...
When you mourn a man of 93, no one is left who remembers him as a child in his mother's arm. Ronald Wilson Reagan's life began in a time and a place so different from our own in a quiet town on the prairie on the 6th of February, 1911.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Thanks for the post, katt -- it was a wonderful, well-delivered eulogy.
All the eulogies were fine but I thought Vice President Dick Cheney gave the best speech of his life this evening. It was the best case one could ever make for Ronald Reagan the man as well as the President. I was really touched by it.
Just saw the replay on C-SPAN ...to hear this in his voice was such a privilege, and you could tell it meant a lot to Nancy.
Thank you for posting.
Thank's for posting!
VP was wonderful and so consoling. BTW...did anyone notice how Michael Reagan seemed like he was off to the side? Why wasn't he next to Patty & Ron?
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