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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: pjohns on June 06, 2014, 03:51:33 am

Title: The tenth anniversary of Ronald Reagan's death
Post by: pjohns on June 06, 2014, 03:51:33 am

Today is the tenth anniversary of Ronald Reagan's passing.

Of course, the most terrible tragedy was not the moment of death per se--that is something that is (ultimately) unavoidable for all of us--but the circumstances surrounding his death.  More specifically, there is little that is more terrible than Alzheimer's disease--which Reagan had, and which eventually took his life--since it robs one of one's very essence.  It is, in effect, a living death.

Title: Re: The tenth anniversary of Ronald Reagan's death
Post by: Machiavelli on June 06, 2014, 05:31:44 pm

He was a man. Take him for all in all.
I shall not look upon his like again.

-- Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2

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