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Ceremony
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:43 pm
by woodchip
Luckily in my shop I have a television that I only turn on when something momentous is taking place. Today was such a day and I turned it on to watch President Reagans funeral service at the National Cathedral. It is seldom that America gets to be seen in such a highly visible manner. While I'm sure there are many in the world that view us as a upstart country with too much power and a arrogance to boot, what was displayed today and the four days previous is our true nature. A country built on religion that give us a steadfastness in our day to day affairs. A quiet dignity that belies all the sensational images ours and the worlds press likes to peddle. A sense of honor exhibited by the hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens that stayed in line for hours at end just to pay their respect, by the military men and woman who flawlessly performed their ceremonial duties and even by our broadcast stations who did not utter commentary while the cameras rolled that in turn allowed the quiet sounds of the ritual to transfix us. This quiet dignity is the real America and other countries will do well to understand us in that context.
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:25 pm
by XeonJr
view us as a upstart country
AN upstart!!!!!!!!!!!
and a arrogance to boot
What school you went?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:42 pm
by Gooberman
If you hated Reagan, now is the time to let it go and say nothing. Not everything needs to be criticized you know...
The funeral was very lovely. I watched it all, didn't plan on it, but ended up doing so.
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:22 pm
by Krom
I started watching it somewhere in the middile, watched till the end, I think it was a good use of my time.
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:06 pm
by Will Robinson
That kind of ceremony-overkill just bores me silly. I voted for the guy and I'm glad it's finally over!
I am glad I caught the very end though, when his children spoke.
His youngest son Ronald P. Reagan reminds me of his father, witty and honest. All three of them had great comments to send the old guy off with.
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 11:45 pm
by Top Wop
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. (October 27, 1964)
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
The Democrats may remember their lines, but how quickly they forget the lessons of the past. I have witnessed five major wars in my lifetime, and I know how swiftly storm clouds can gather on a peaceful horizon. The next time a Saddam Hussein takes over Kuwait, or North Korea brandishes a nuclear weapon, will we be ready to respond? In the end, it all comes down to leadership, and that is what this country is looking for now. (RNC Annual Gala, Feb. 3, 1994)
I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other. (April 11, 1984)
They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.
The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.
When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:39 am
by Flabby Chick
I thought it was excellent. All that pomp does wonders for country's spirit. On a side note i thought Maggie stole the show, despite her ill health.