06-06-2004, 03:51 AM
Nystul,Jun 5 2004, 07:24 PM Wrote:There's my eulogy. I wasn't alive to see Washington, Lincoln, or even Roosevelt in action, but I'd certainly rate Reagan as the greatest President of my lifetime.Hear! Hear!
All too often we (or "I," or "the Younger Generation") forget that the problems and issues that we face today are not the ones that we have faced in the past. As silly as it sounds, today, if you asked thirty people around the age of 20 or so and asked them about the Cold War, only half of them would have described it as a "real" conflict.
This is ridiculous. And insulting. Especially as I am twenty myself.
Apperently the threat of nuclear war isn't much in these days. Now that's inflation for you.
He was a good man and a strong one. And let's face it: a 98% approval rating at the end of his second term should be the best praise we could give.
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