I know. But do yourself a favor and watch these young 'uns coming up. My son's friends all use "cool" to describe patriotic people, and I regularly have ten-thirteen year olds come and join me on my street corner freeps. There was thread on FR the other day that called we X-ers "Generation Reagan", and today's teens and younger are the children of that generation, the one who's older members won the Cold War with Ron and who's younger members watched it being won in their formative years. I sense something good is going to happen here as we take over from the Boomers and when our kids take the torch from us.
My nine-year old has been asking me questions about Reagan all week...
Noonan on MSNBC
Reagan Generation .... I like that !!!
You bring up a good point. Clearly, today's young people have not heard much good about President Reagan from their "teachers". It will surprise them to know more about this great man that they have been lied to about.
True enough. I am 34 and I come from a family of Roosevelt Democrats. My father in fact was a member of the Youth International Party. My formative years, however, were during the Reagan era and I am sure that has shaped my thinking to this day.
BTW, my Mom and Dad now have a Bush-Cheney bumpersticker on their car. 9/11 has changed everything. The Lord moves in mysterious way.
Good advice. By nature I give the benefit of the doubt, and I know no generation is a monolith. One thing the Gipper asserted, we are all individuals, no two of us alike.
My husband and I are so much a part of Generation Reagan, that we named our daughter Reagan.
Even though he suffered so these last ten years, I loved knowing he still walked the earth for all these years. I'm glad he has been mercifully released from the bonds of Alzheimer's disease to live on with God our Father in Heaven, but there is such an emptiness here on Earth. We have lost a great, great man.