[Jeff Head]

You are spot on with that one my friend, he shall never be forgotten.

[GulfWar1Vet]

I remember when Reagan was shot..I was in the 9th grade. I will always remember that he joked to Nancy.."Honey, I forgot to duck."

What a man he was...a true American hero.

Okay..I am tearing up here.

[ScaniaBoy]

You are so right.

I made my first visit to the USA in 1985. I was welcomed by President Reagan's cheerful face in the passageway at JFK. Just that made me feel that there was something special in the air.

And then; the bouncing, positive attitude that I found everywhere I traveled. The country was positively buzzing.

Not at all what you had been expected to find, if you watched the broadcast news in Sweden or Britain. And certainly not the malaise that we had been used to associate with the US ever since the Vietnam war, Watergate, Carter etc.

Instead it was the "can do" mentality of the US of the late 1800s which had lasted to the Kennedy years, and now reinvented by the Reagan revolution after some sad decades.

Ronald Reagan was truly a Great American, and thus, a great man. It is a sad day when such a man passes away, but we have to console ourselves with the fact that we have been blessed with his presence.

ScaniaBoy