(apologies to all you imaging professionals for the awful grafting)
Posted on 06/13/2004 5:23:06 PM PDT by hilaryrhymeswithrich
When I heard about the passing of my hero, President Reagan, I was not prepared for the wave of sadness I would feel. We’ve all known we lost him to the ravages of Alzheimer’s many years ago. I suppose the finality of no longer having him as a light in our world, even if only a glimmer of its prior brightness, released years of pent up grieving. We decided to make the long trek to DC to say thank you. This is very long, but I wanted to get all the sights and sounds in.
(apologies to all you imaging professionals for the awful grafting)
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I noticed a strange phenomena in my neighborhood last week. Here, as almost anywhere today, the residents are too lazy to fly American flags even on the Fourth. Last week, the flags mushroomed....and some folks even took the trouble to attach black streamers or ribbons.
The media has cause for trepidation.
Leni
s'ok.
Thank you for your wonderful report.
What is amazing is that every person who was there represents several others who, like me, just could not go but wanted to.
Thank you for paying your respects and for representing so many of us!
For some reason this pic doesn't open in the thread but opens in Samurai_Jack's comments and in my reply. Go figure.
Probably one of the few times being surronded by LEO's was a good thing in my brother's life ;>)
I can't believe we didn't make the connection! I had been talking about FR so much!
It was nice to meet you, that was a good thing you did with your children taking them to the Viewing of a great man.
Wonderful story...thank you for sharing it.
We watched you all on TV and were there with you in spirit.
God Bless President Reagan...the best President of my lifetime.
You are so right .. they were so green with envy they were replaying the Johnson funeral over on C-SPAN .. ROTFLOL! The dems are just pitiful.
Wow, so people refused to be interviewed? That had to really make the media mad. I found it interesting that all the interviews I saw where focusing on the "history" and "telling people I was there" aspect now that you mention it.
Slimy media, they probably got tons of interviews of people praising Reagan that they couldn't bear to show. It gives me even greater pleasure to know that there were so many thousands right in the media's back yard.
FYI, I waited from 7:30pm to after 5am on Monday-Tuesday here and it was an equally gratifying experience. I was disappointed there wasn't any media with the long lines....now i know better as to why.
Thank you for being there to show our love and respect for President Reagan and accepting the challenge of facing down the media hatemongers. President Reagan is very proud, especially of the young ones. God bless you all.
Thanks for sharing this, I was nice of you to attend, Reagan was the greatest. It all hit home when we knew he would no longer be with us.
Thanks for doing this website. It's great.
What a beautiful report. I watched much of the coverage on t.v. wishing I could have been there in person, but now I almost feel like I was! Thanks!
pinging myself
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