From: Ascmjk@aol.com
Date: Sun Jun 06 2004 - 00:44:19 BST
It's easy to forget, even for people who lived through it in their younger
years, the Cold War. The Soviet Union represented the gravest continuous threat
to free thought in history. Static Patterns at their most deadly. The national
mood in the late 1970s wasn't that great, especially in the wake of the
Iranian hostage crisis. Many felt America had lost its ability--indeed its very
will--to influence world events. The Soviet war machine rolled into Afghanistan
and there was no end to the Cold War in sight. Ronald Reagan is generally
recognized as the man most directly responsible for the shameless rebirth of
American pride and patriotism which unfurled across the United States like an
enormous flag during the 8 years of his presidency. A former lifeguard, Reagan in
many ways rescued the nation from a time of poisonous self-doubt. We stand
safely on shore now, out of harm's way...free to think in our own way, free to love
in our own way, free to lose in our own way...and as the Old Lifeguard swims
off into the sunset, let us remember how he inspired a nation that needed
inspiration. Let's go out and win one for the Gipper. He won one for the world.
Jon
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