Comments on: Tear Down This Wall http://www.herdwatching.com/2009/11/10/tear-down-this-wall/ Just another ImposingEdifice site Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:37:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Deth http://www.herdwatching.com/2009/11/10/tear-down-this-wall/#comment-308 Deth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:31:20 +0000 http://www.herdwatching.com/2009/11/10/tear-down-this-wall/#comment-308 Ronald Regan was the reason i got interested in politics at all. I remember watching him on TV and being struck by how proud he was, how dignified. He was a man i could not imagine as anything but a good man. I became a republican because of him, and joined the young republicans at the age, i kid not, of 13. I worked fairs and rallys, victory parties and defeat consolations, for something like 4 years. All because he inspired me to do something with my life that could help other people, and to get involved in being the change i wanted to see in the world. I saw a show about him once that interviewed people who knew him. They said one of his favorite life experiences was being a life guard on a river, and how he had saved peoples' lives there. At the end of the long road of his life, as almost all his tremendous achievements lay forgotten by him, he still spoke of those days on the river. I tried to imagine that. A man who had saved the world, a man who had lead the greatest nation on earth for eight years, a man who faced the most powerful enemy ever to threaten freedom and not flinch at all - he did not bask in the glory of those grand things. Just in being a lifeguard on a quiet river, saving peoples lives and doing the right thing. I may have misremembered this anecdote, but I'm sure I'm not far off on it. I don't believe in heaven, but if there is one - Regan should be there. He was a good man, who did good things. And he saved the world. Ronald Regan was the reason i got interested in politics at all. I remember watching him on TV and being struck by how proud he was, how dignified. He was a man i could not imagine as anything but a good man. I became a republican because of him, and joined the young republicans at the age, i kid not, of 13. I worked fairs and rallys, victory parties and defeat consolations, for something like 4 years. All because he inspired me to do something with my life that could help other people, and to get involved in being the change i wanted to see in the world.

I saw a show about him once that interviewed people who knew him. They said one of his favorite life experiences was being a life guard on a river, and how he had saved peoples' lives there. At the end of the long road of his life, as almost all his tremendous achievements lay forgotten by him, he still spoke of those days on the river. I tried to imagine that. A man who had saved the world, a man who had lead the greatest nation on earth for eight years, a man who faced the most powerful enemy ever to threaten freedom and not flinch at all – he did not bask in the glory of those grand things. Just in being a lifeguard on a quiet river, saving peoples lives and doing the right thing. I may have misremembered this anecdote, but I'm sure I'm not far off on it.

I don't believe in heaven, but if there is one – Regan should be there. He was a good man, who did good things. And he saved the world.

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