[AT] Reagan Remembered (by Patti Davis) Off topic but greatreading

[Frank]

Danny"
I have my heroes too! I understand and I don't really think apology is
necessary...he did do a lot of good things too ...he just screwed me out of
retiring at 62 is all.....but he did not do it alone either.!

Frank
gremaux at tein.net
Central Montana
www.angelfire.com/mt/deeregp/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Tabor" <dannytabor2000 at yahoo.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Reagan Remembered (by Patti Davis) Off topic but
greatreading


> Frank, I must apologize. I certainly didn't mean for
> my response to cause bitterness to anybody. I will
> keep my heroes and my conservative views to myself. At
> least when dealing with this mailing list. Sorry again
> for any discomfort my response may have caused.
> Danny Tabor
>
>
>
> --- Frank <gremaux at tein.net> wrote:
> > you might have liked him but he did me no favors on
> > my social security
> >
> > maybe this is not the place for politics
> >
> > Frank
> > gremaux at tein.net
> > Central Montana
> > www.angelfire.com/mt/deeregp/index.html
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Danny Tabor" <dannytabor2000 at yahoo.com>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Reagan Remembered (by Patti Davis)
> > Off topic but
> > greatreading
> >
> >
> > >
> > > --- DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:
> > > > I got this off AOL today it is one of the most
> > > > beautiful things a wayward
> > > > daughter could say about her father.
> > > >
> > > > Even if  you hated Reagan please read this as it
> > > > pertains to all of us who
> > > > are getting  old and may face the same  fate.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Thanks Walt for sharing this with us. It hits home
> > for
> > > us young folks to. Not only because I come from a
> > > tight knit family but also President Reagan
> > (ray-gun)
> > > was a childhood heroe of mine. Still is. As a
> > young
> > > boy I was glued to the television grasping to
> > every
> > > word President Reagan spoke. "President Reagan's
> > on!!!
> > > Don't change that channel!!!"  Thank you again.
> > > Danny
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Reagan  Remembered
> > > > Months Before the Ex-President's Death, His
> > Daughter
> > > > Shared  Memories
> > > >
> > > > By Patti Davis, People
> > > >
> > > > What was once my father's office  is now his
> > > > bedroom. On top of the desk
> > > > where he rested his elbows as sunlight  slanted
> > > > through the window, where he wrote
> > > > his last letter to America announcing  that he
> > had
> > > > Alzheimer's in 1994,
> > > > bedsheets are often stacked â?" ready to be used
> > > > for a change of the hospital bed
> > > > where he now stays around the clock. When he is
> > > > awake, which is not that often,
> > > > he can gaze at the trees outside the window. The
> > > > other day, my mother and
> > > > the nurse who was on duty moved the bed to the
> > open
> > > > doorway so he could look
> > > > into the back garden, where the sun was making
> > > > prisms  on the leaves after a
> > > > morning of rain. "Did he seem to notice the
> > > > different  view?" I asked my mother.
> > > > "I don't know," she said.
> > > > People often ask me how  my father is doing.
> > They
> > > > want to know if he still
> > > > recognizes me, if he still  recognizes any of
> > us. It
> > > > makes me realize that my
> > > > mother and I have been so  protective of his
> > > > condition since he became ill â?"
> > > > almost a decade now â?" that it  has allowed
> > people
> > > > to imagine he is still talking,
> > > > still walking, still able to  stumble into a
> > moment
> > > > of clarity. But it would
> > > > be a disservice to every family  who has an
> > > > Alzheimer's victim in their
> > > > embrace to say any of that is true, and I  don't
> > > > believe my father would want us to
> > > > lie. Today, we are like many other  families who
> > > > come to the bedside of a
> > > > loved one and look into eyes that no  longer
> > flicker
> > > > with recognition. It
> > > > rearranges your universe. It strips away
> > everything
> > > > but the most important truth:
> > > > that the soul is alive, even if the  mind is
> > > > faltering.
> > > > My father is the only man in the house these
> > days,
> > > > except  for members of his
> > > > Secret Service detail who occasionally come in.
> > It's
> > > > a house  of women, now â?"
> > > > the nurses, my mother, the housekeepers. Me,
> > when I
> > > > am there,  which is
> > > > often, since I live only 10 minutes away. When
> > my
> > > > brother Ron visits  from Seattle,
> > > > or our older brother Michael comes over, the
> > sound
> > > > of a male voice  seems to
> > > > register with my father. He lifts his eyebrows.
> > Is
> > > > it recognition of  his
> > > > sons? Curiosity about this new male intruder? I
> > > > don't know. We frequently  arrange
> > > > dinner around his bed. In fact, it has become
> > the
> > > > center of the house.
> > > > Everything radiates from that space, whether he
> > is
> > > > awake or asleep. It radiates
> > > > from the man whose life is thinning to a stream,
> > yet
> > > > flows and follows us even
> > > > when we drive off the property.
> > > > In the room next to my father's, my mother  now
> > > > sleeps in a new bed. The
> > > > king-size bed they shared for so many years came
> > to
> > > > feel vast and empty to her,
> > > > so she had it taken away and replaced by a
> > > > queen-size bed. Less empty space
> > > > across the mattress. Yet it's no relief from
> > the
> > > > loneliness of sleeping alone
> > > > after 50 years of rolling over to the person
> > you
> > > > love. She still tiptoes
> > > > across the floor if she gets up in the middle of
> > the
> > > >  night; her heart forgets that
> > > > the other side of the bed is empty. I remember
> > the
> > > > day the larger bed was
> > > > replaced. I remember the mark on the carpet
> > where
> > > > the  king-size bed once was.
> > > > It seemed to say everything.
> > > > Alzheimer's is a long  series of I-don't-knows.
> > My
> > > > father's doctor doesn't
> > > > know how he has lived so  long with this
> > disease,
> > > > especially after breaking his
> > > > hip in January 2001. I  think it's the tenacity
> > of
> > > > his soul â?" he just isn't
> > > > ready to leave his reunited  family. At a
> > certain
> > > > point in time, it might all
> > > > come down to this â?" life is  about learning
> > how to
> > > > die, how to let go and how to
> > > > hold on to what is really  important. One thing
> > that
> > > > was so startling about
> > > > the TV movie that has gotten so  much publicity
> > is
> > > > that it was based on years
> > > > of our lives when my mother and I  were often at
> > > > war. The script made use of
> > > > things I had written at that time,  before I was
> > > > able to put my rebelliousness
> > > > and political stridency aside. After  reading
> > the
> > > > script, she said to me, "I'm
> > > > so sorry about the way you were  portrayed." I
> > think
> > > > I answered, "Well, we all
> > > > came off terribly." But the moment  was not lost
> > on
> > > > me. A single sentence can
> > > > be a bridge over currents of old  history.
> > > > My father will leave, we all know that. There
> > will
> > > > be many people  poring
> > > > over his political career. There will be debates
> > and
> > > > discussions about  his
> > > > Presidency. But as a family, we will be
> > elsewhere.
> > > > We will walk past an  empty
> > > > room. We will be assaulted by the silence, the
> >
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