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I lost my father, America lost a hero
The Sunday Times ^
| June 13, 2004
| Patti Davis
Posted on 06/12/2004 5:08:29 PM PDT by MadIvan
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Apologies if this has been posted before. It is quite moving.
Regards, Ivan
In memoriam
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:08:30 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
To: Judith Anne; Desdemona; alnick; knews_hound; faithincowboys; hillary's_fat_a**; redbaiter; ...
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:08:57 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
(Ronald Reagan - proof positive that one man can indeed change the world.)
To: MadIvan
Beautiful...she's become the woman he hoped she be.
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:12:07 PM PDT
by
Hildy
( If you don't stand up for what's RIGHT, you'll settle for what's LEFT.)
To: MadIvan
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:13:32 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Retrosexual Vietnam veteran against John Kerry, proud to be a "crook" and a "liar.")
To: MadIvan
The cold slap of reality affects us all differently.
God bless her.
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:15:35 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Can I get you something? Here's a pinecone.)
To: MadIvan
Patti has come to realize how right/good/heroic her father really was.
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:23:13 PM PDT
by
bikepacker67
(Imagine a world without Reagan... Scary stuff, eh?)
To: MadIvan
Yes, very moving and loving of her to share.
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:23:40 PM PDT
by
Dolphy
To: MadIvan
Thank you. Thank you, also, for Baroness Thatcher and her wonderful euology and for her attendance at the events and for her stalwart defense, with President Reagan, of the very idea of freedom. Thank you for Mr. Blair's courage with our President Bush, also, in Iraq.
God bless your Britain, MadIvan, and you.
To: Hildy
I thought all three of the children were amazingly eloquent and the class of their father and mother came through. I think I may now understand how they felt shortchanged by their parents public life. He was such an amazing man that having to share him would make doing so all the more difficult. Sharing a lesser man would probably be much easier. Now it seems they have come to realize they were incredibly blessed.
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:29:21 PM PDT
by
metalcor
To: MadIvan
This woman has an extraordinary talent for the written word. Too bad she wasted her life thumbing her nose at propriety in general and her parents in particular.
Self destructive and a total waste of talent. How sad. By spiting her parents she spited herself.
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:30:25 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
(LOSERS quit when they are tired/WINNERS quit when they have won)
To: Hildy
**Beautiful...she's become the woman he hoped she be.**
A dimocrat?
I don't think so.
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:36:16 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: MadIvan; onyx
Thanks Ivan. It's beautiful. And it's so nice to see you posting again.
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:43:37 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
(God Bless America)
To: OldFriend
I couldn't agree with you more.
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posted on
06/12/2004 5:48:49 PM PDT
by
grellis
(What's a rooster and mashed potatos have to do with being a pirate?)
To: MadIvan
Very powerful description of her father's last days. Thanks.
To: Hildy
Beautiful...she's become the woman he hoped she be.
Oh, Hildy. That simple, beautiful and said it all.
Thank you.
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posted on
06/12/2004 6:04:55 PM PDT
by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
To: MadIvan
I'm glad I wasn't one of the little soldiers in the war going on inside her head. She looked very troubled all week. A lot of pain.
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posted on
06/12/2004 6:06:07 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: MadIvan; Brad's Gramma
And it's so nice to see you posting again.
Indeed it is.
Margaret Thatcher and you.
My two favorite Brits.
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posted on
06/12/2004 6:06:49 PM PDT
by
onyx
To: Salvation
A dimocrat?
I don't think so.
That being said, I was wondering about Ronald P.
That remark about "wearing faith on your sleeve", I hope he
wasnt targeting "W"
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posted on
06/12/2004 6:21:54 PM PDT
by
ThreePuttinDude
(The French even surrender at a protest rally)
To: MadIvan
I remember reading that Billy Graham said that he has been in the room many times when people are dying, and there is a world of difference between the death of a Christian and that of a nonChristian or atheist. The death of a Christian is frequently a beautiful and moving moment, like the one Patti describes here.
She is a lovely writer and she does justice to the emotions and to the moment. I hope her father's faith has moved her spirit as well as her heart.
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posted on
06/12/2004 6:32:52 PM PDT
by
Capriole
(DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY.)
To: TheStickman
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posted on
06/12/2004 6:34:22 PM PDT
by
visualops
(Let's win another one for the Gipper.)
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