Posted on 06/11/2004 8:22:42 PM PDT by Bob J
Blubbering like a baby in LA...
"I was a tad concerned - when Ron Reagan made the comments about his father invoking his faith, but not "using it as a mandate," and ended with, "there's a difference," it seemed to be a very politically charged statement. However, I couldn't quite figure out where he was going with it. Was it a protest against the Islamofacists who threaten us? Or was it propaganda against Dubya, who unabashadly makes references to his faith?
I really didn't want to have these thoughts throughout this. Ron Jr.? What's the deal? Can someone please clarify all this for me? Thanks."
I had the same thought. I was wondering if it was a snide remark at President Bush too. I loved President Reagan, and am not that excited about President Bush, but if Ron Jr. Reagan was making a political statement against President Bush's openess about his faith, I think that was pretty low.
Let's be gracious today, particularly to Ron's family...he would have wanted us to do that.
Amazingly emotional...cried through the entire service. Perhaps you should have asked those who "didn't cry" to post as they must be quote different from the majority.
Not sure I want to hear from them right now...
let us thank God that such a man lived.
We do, and I think this week was about right.
The Reagans made us proud, and we made the Reagans proud.
God Bless America, now it's on to November.
What choked me up was the throngs of people applauding Nancy and wishing her well during the trip to the rotunda. Very moving. She's an amazing woman.
...let us not mourn Reagan to excess. Rather, let us thank God that such a man lived.
Indeed, let let thank God for giving us Ronald Reagan, and let us celebrate his life as well.
Let us also reflect and analyze why we are mourning the loss of a great man, and determine through that reflection what it is that made that man so great, so that we might aspire to emulate those virtues in our own lives. That is what heroes do for us and why we need them, now more than ever.
As heart-wrenching as the service was, we live on in the knowledge that one day we will see him again, when Our Lord walks among us.
i feel so for her at this moment.
...and thus through such vigilance, faith and commitment to principle, shall liberty and freedom and this Republic endure.
Thanks for this thread Bob. Please let me know when you come up with a date for that library tour.
Amen...spot on.
Teared up a little during Patti's and some of Ron's comments, but the worst was when Nancy was handed the flag and she hugged it and seemed to clutch it for dear life. Then she went to the coffin and didn't want to let him go. I was holding my sleeping son, sweating from the bosy heat, but I didn't want to put him down either. That was the most heart wrenching moment of the whole blessed event. But I did choke up again when Lady Thatcher curtsied toward her dear old friend one last time here on earth.
On an unrelated note, the thought struck me that Raisa Gorbachev, Denis Thatcher, and now PResident Reagan have all passed within the last couple of years. The three couple who were so heavily intertwined throughout our nations' histories still share a common bond.
me too. I can't even say I admired him in the 80's. I was a stupid liberal then and I just came to be a believer as history has proven him right. I'm glad enough others had better insight than I, and elected him so that the country had the benefit of his idealism.
But I've been crying all week.
It struck me that maybe I should spend a little time this weekend doing some introspection and figuring out why this was such an emotional thing for me.
THANKS.
Mercifully, yes!
Have had much fewer tears the last couple of years--soooo 'cried out' for so many reasons.
Had become concerned that I was somehow walled off or hardened and that alarmed me.
It was a great wonderful relief to have so many repeated times of tears with todays ceremonies.
Thanks for the opporutnity to say so.
Blessings,
There were several thoughts-all brought tears:
DAMN, I'm proud of our Country.
DAMN! I'm PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.
DAMN! I'm PROUD that we had such a man as President.The News finally had to admit HE DONE GOOD!
DAMN! Those CHP motorcycles sure look SHARP!
DAMN! I'm SO proud of the Californians who stopped on the freeway.(usually a get a citation for that, and the CHP ignored it today. The CHP also ignored the camera guys in the back of a Chevy Avalanche.) I'm proud of the Californians that clogged the overpasses to see THE MAN on his last ride.
I'm proud of what the Liberals would call" Corny" in that people with their families, stood at the side of the road waving their little American flags. TAKE THAT, Ted Kennedy!
Maybe we will see the resurrection of the notion of heroes.
We just buried one today.
Thank you
Eales Up for President W. Reagan and his beloved Nancy, and God Bless our country and our current President George W. Bush and his beloved Laura.
I agree...was just kidding and my eyes are so swollen I can hardly read much less spell. Everything was wonderful. Nancy is amazing.
My stepfather was a wonderful man who treated me like a son from day one. After he retired, he moved to Oregon, while I ended up in Texas. Before he succumbed to emphysema, I had the chance for one last visit, to tell him that I loved him.
When my fiance picked me up at the airport that evening, she was extremely subdued. While driving home, she told me that my dad went into a coma five minutes after I left, and died that afternoon.
Michael's beautiful words brought those memories back. Not the sad ones, mind you, but the good times we spent with each other, and the love (albeit mostly unspoken) that we had for each other.
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