Off topic, I know, but I was just on the Ronald Reagan yesterday. My first time on an aircraft carrier, and I’m still in awe and want to go back. I’ve been reading up on Navy related stuff during work now. It was so awesome. I wish I could support her and the fleet somehow as a civilian. Sailors are also looking forward to the change from Bozo to Trump to improve the military. The Reagan museum room on the carrier was pretty damned cool. I got a couple caps for my sons and I to honor the ship.
I have a kind of neat story.
Granddaughter and I were in the bathroom of our marina getting ready to go to the Ronald Reagan Library. Another lady was in there, heard us and started talking to us. She was from Virginia and had been part of the group who led the fundraisers for the dedication party or something like that for the Ronald Reagan. Anyway she had some buttons and stuffed animals left that they had given to donors as gifts. Took down my address and said that as soon as she got back to Virginia she would mail some of it to the granddaughter.
About a month later I received a box in the mail with a couple of different lapel pins and a specially made Ronald Reagan Beanie Baby.
“The Reagan museum room on the carrier was pretty damned cool. I got a couple caps for my sons and I to honor the ship.”
I picked up an insulated steel travel mug emblazoned with the insignia of the USS Reagan, from the Reagan museum in 2004. It’s been my daily coffee mug ever since.