From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jun 06 2004 - 13:38:24 BST
Hi Jon,
I agree whole-heartedly with your reminder of Ronald Reagan's greatness.
He was instrumental in saving Western civilization from Communist dreams
of world domination, both in Europe and in South America.
There are still those among the intellectual elite who hate Reagan for
defeating Marxist-Leninism and preserving, as you so succinctly put it,
"free thought," without which "freedom" is an empty word.
To "progressives" Reagan was characterized as an empty-headed "cowboy,"
the same epithet they now use to describe President Bush who is continuing
Reagan's legacy of defeating tyrannies and freeing millions to think and
speak without fear. Thanks to such leadership, the intellectual level
fares well.
Best regards,
Platt
> 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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