[ansel12]

It was your choice to call yourself Colonel, if you had served under Reagan, you might have remembered how incredibly aggressive he was in confronting the Communists all over the world, and his massive military buildup and aggressive military exercises, and operations and clandestine/mercenary operations globally.

It was pretty exciting serving under Reagan, scary, tense, but exciting, it was also pretty deadly since we averaged over 2200 military dead a year under Reagan, for a total of almost 18,000.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I never meant the screen name to suggest I was actually a colonel. At the time I picked the name, I was at a loss what to call myself and all I could think of was the old TV character Captain Kangaroo. If I had to do it all over again, I'd call myself Arnold Ziffel.

I think Reagan and his policy was the perfect match for the times. I just think it is not the long term way for today while the rest of the world grows fat living of our exertions.