FAREWELL, MR. PRESIDENT
RONALD WILSON REAGAN
DEAR PRESIDENT REAGAN,
WHAT WORDS DO WE SPEAK TO TELL YOU THAT WE AMERICANS WILL NEVER FORGET YOU.
IN ADDITION TO BEING A WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING AND A GOOD LEADER, YOU MADE A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE IN THE LIFE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND IN THE LIVES OF PE0PLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
YOU, THROUGH YOUR OWN INNER STRENGTH, DETERMINATION AND BELIEF THAT PEACE AND FREEDOM IS MEANT FOR ALL MANKIND....
YOU STOPPED COMMUNIST TYRANNY IN ITS TRACKS,
THUS, BECOMING INSTRUMENTAL IN SETTING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FREE FROM OPPRESSION IN MANY OTHER COUNTRIES.
HERE IN AMERICA YOU PUT AN END TO THE CRIPPLING DOUBLE DIGIT INFLATION OF THE 1970S.
YOUR FISCAL POLICES BROUGHT INTEREST RATES DOWN SO AMERICANS COULD AGAIN BUY A HOME.
YOU REDUCED TAXES AND ALLOWED CITIZENS AND BUSINESS TO KEEP MORE OF THEIR OWN MONEY, WHICH IN TURN WAS USED TO GROW THE MOST AMAZING ECONOMY THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
AGAINST TREMENDOUS ODDS YOU COAXED CONGRESS INTO GIVING AMERICANS MORE FREEDOM FROM GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE....'FREEDOM' WHICH SADLY, SOME IN 'HIGH PLACES', IN BOTH GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS, HAVE SINCE BETRAYED, CAUSING THE FISCAL PROBLEMS OF TODAY!
YOU WERE THE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE. WE ORDINARY PATRIOTIC PEOPLE WERE GRATEFUL WHEN YOU STOOD UP FOR AMERICA AGAINST THE LIBERAL, UN-AMERICAN ELITE, HERE AND ELSEWHERE, WHO WERE THEN AND NOW MISLEADING THE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD
AND WHO THEN AND NOW, STILL DO NOT LOVE AMERICA OR THE PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH THIS COUNTRY WAS ESTABLISHED.
YOU REBUILT THE MILITARY AND GAVE US A SENSE OF SECURITY KNOWING THERE WAS AGAIN A STRONG MILITARY PRESENCE STANDING BETWEEN US AND ANY WHO WOULD TRY TO DESTROY US. YOU MADE THE WORLD RESPECT US, IF NOT LIKE US.
WE KNEW YOU HAD A STRONG FAITH IN 'A GREATER POWER AT WORK IN THE LIVES OF MEN AND NATIONS'. WE WERE COMFORTED BY THAT....BELIEVING 'GOD' WAS WORKING WITH THE 'MAN' IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
WE PRAYED FOR YOU AND FOR AMERICA AND CONTINUE TO ASK FORGIVENESS FOR THOSE BLIND PEOPLE WHO DELIBERATELY WORK AGAINST AMERICA....FOR THOSE WHO STOOD IN YOUR WAY.... FOR THOSE WHO STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND ALL YOU DID TO SAVE THIS COUNTRY FROM TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT THAT WAS GROWING WITHIN OUR BORDERS.
YOU NAME IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE IDEA OF FREEDOM OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
MAY GOD FORGIVE ALL WHO HAVE EVER ABUSED THAT FREEDOM HERE OR ABROAD.
MAY WE REGAIN AND FOREVER PROTECT ANY CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS LOST OR DISTORTED.
LET THE SHINING CITY QUICKLY BECOME OUR REALITY.
LET ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE EMBRACE YOUR VISION.
WHEN YOU FIRST SPOKE OUT NATIONALLY IN 1964 PEOPLE EVERYWHERE SUDDENLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT 'CONSERVATIVE' MEANT....REALIZED WHAT CONSERVATISM COULD BE AND DO FOR THIS COUNTRY. AND EVER SINCE MILLIONS WORLD WIDE HAVE RALLIED AROUND THAT BANNER'!
THANK YOU FOR LEADING US....FOR CARING ABOUT US.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DID FOR THIS COUNTRY AND FOR OTHER COUNTRIES.
WE KNOW IT IS NOT EASY TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES....LET ALONE BE ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD.
YOU HAVE OUR ETERNAL GRATITUDE AND OUR LOVE,
SINCERELY.........
Lois J. Crawford
June 5, 2004
“We Americans are blessed in so many ways.
We’re a nation under God, a living and loving God.
But Thomas Jefferson warned us, ‘I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.’
We cannot expect Him to protect us in crisis if we turn away from Him in our everyday living.
But you know, He told us what to do in II Chronicles. Let us reach out to Him.
He said, ‘If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves
and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land’.”
"The developing world has been told that it's necessary to give up freedom in order to achieve progress. Nothing could be further from the truth. Freedom and economic advance go hand in hand; they are two sides of the same coin. The mainspring of human progress is found not in controlling and harnessing human energy but in setting it free. The most valuable resource is not oil or precious metals or even territory; it's the infinite richness of human potential. The creative genius and diligence unleashed when people are free and working to improve their lot and that of their families is the greatest force for good on this planet."