BG: Re: Ronald Reagan

[Doris Bradley]

June 6, 2004 6:00 pm   AMEN to that.  He was a good, decent man who did his best in the world's hardest job.  Despite all the criticism of  Nancy Reagan, she was a loving & loyal wife doing what I think she saw as her life's work, standing by her husband to the end.  She said the same thing I said after watching my Mama die too young of a cancer we felt as helpless to control as the Reagans must have felt to control the horrible disease that destroyed former President Reagan's mind mostly, then his body.  Nancy Reagan said in an interview not long ago that "one thing I've learned from Ronnie's illness-this sort of (Alzheimers) disease  has no eyes and doesn't care whether it strikes a good person or a bad one-it just strikes wherever and whenever it pleases.  And if you don't think people pay for whatever they've done in this world, I'm here to tell you that I've learned by watching Ronnie slowly slip away from me that you do pay-sometimes for things you've never even done."  We're all here to learn a lesson of some sort, perhaps.  Ronald Reagan had a long, mostly happy life and he met every one of  the many challenges life threw at him with his head up & by seeing life's glass as always half full, never half empty.  That takes some doing.  He was a good President.  He has been sorely missed since his letter to the American people in 1994.  No doubt his family will feel it far more now that he is physically beyond their reach also.  I pray for them just as you so wisely suggest-and for us all as we sustain the loss of a kind and gifted statesman who worked very hard to make this country a better place.   We should all stop to say a prayer of thanks for the sacrifices made by every serviceman, veteran, widows of servicemen, widowers of servicewomen & veterans of every war this country ever fought.    These men & women were courageous enough to fight for what they believe in and many died to keep our country free.  President Reagan was a Captain, I think in some branch of the service and fought for his country.  We all owe them our undying gratitude.   Doris Stanley Bradley, LLB Attorney at Law Member, Tennessee Bar Association ----- Original Message ----- From: Neal Osborne To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 12:31 PM Subject: BG: Ronald Reagan I think we should all have a moment of silence and say a silet prayer for Mrs. Nancy Reagan in this sad time, after President Reagan's death.   Neal Osborne