Remembering Reagan - Ivan
[This rememberance of President Reagan was sent to me by a former John Foster Dulles scholarship winner.? The award was given out?by Little Rock Community College and was discontinued after President Reagan triumphed over the Evil Empire.]
In the summer of 1917, Oregon, Illinois smelled of the good clean freshness of corn on cool mornings before the sun got too high.? Lovingly carried by competent Mid-West breezes, the scent would blow in through the window and dance across the rosy cheeks of the boys and girls of Oregon, gently but firmly waking them for a day full of frolicking at the swimming hole with penny candy the Pa Kenny?s General Store and Grange.? It always felt like summer on days like this.?
America’s cornfields feed the world and make children smile.
This is why we fight islamo-fascism in all its treacherous forms.
Nobody loved summer more the little Ronnie Reagan but ever since the Christmas of 1916, Ronnie and his mother took an hour a week to sit down at his little wooden writing desk to write to Ivan, his pen pal in a far away country called Russia.? It was a strange and marvelous place filled with dancing bears and opulent palaces made completely of gold.? Ivan said he lived in one of those.? How Ronnie had cried bitter tears when he read that.? He crumpled the letter in his pint-sized fist and flung it to the floor.? ?I hate being poor,? he yelled!? ?When I grow up I will be wealthy beyond belief!? I will?show that Ivan!?? He grabbed?the photograph that Ivan sent him ? Ivan sitting on a snow white horse in front of a gleaming place ? and was just about to tear it in two?when his mother reminded him that all the money in the world couldn?t buy Jesus? love.? Ronnie felt ashamed and flung himself into his mother?s arms, weeping.
From there on out, his letters to Ivan glowed with an inner serenity far beyond his years.? But it was true ? they were poor.? Ronnie?s father was an Irish Catholic, which meant that he frequently drank himself out of jobs leaving his wife to scrape together pitiful suppers made from potatoes and radishes.? A nickel was a lot of money in those days, but she always found?a way to pay for the stamp to mail the weekly letter to Ivan.
Unlike working mothers today, President Reagan’s mother devoted
all her energies to her child.? He grew up to become President of the
United States of America.
In the summer of 1917, little Ronnie Reagan worried.? While Ronnie faithfully wrote Ivan every week, he?d not gotten so much as a postal card from Ivan.? Was he alright?? Was he angry that Ronnie had Jesus and all Ivan had was grand clothes, a private tutor and any toy he wanted?? Had Ivan been eaten by a dancing bear?? His mother told him something about some trouble in Russia in February, but what did that have to do with Ivan?? How Ronnie?s mind whirled and whizzed with so many questions but no answers.
Summer faded and the corn ripened and soon the fields everyone helped harvest the crop.? What a sense of community!? In his later years he frequently spoke of those days when the whole town pulled together.? ?I miss those days,? he said once at a fund raising event at the Ritz Carlton in 1979, ?the days where you knew your neighbor and your neighbor knew you and there was no such thing as a hand out ? only a helping hand.? The days when you could walk down the main street of your hometown without tripping over a drug addict.? The days when America spoke English?
Habla ingles?? ?NO! Imagine how wonderful America was without
illegal immigrants infesting our town and refusing to learn our language!
September gave way to October and soon the frost was on the pumpkin and still no letter from Ivan.? By now, Ronnie guessed that their pen pal correspondence was over but, always faithful and stalwart even as Alzheimer?s ate away at his mind and body, he continued to write.? Oh, maybe the letters lacked the sly wit and shared confidence of his first letters but that was to be expected and his mother did not chide him.
On October 26th, 1917, little Ronnie Reagan smiled.? His father managed to stay sober enough to hold his job for almost six months.? This meant that, with the family?s debts paid off, Ronnie could buy that football he had his eye on.? The competent Mid-Western winds bore the first signs of winter and danced across his rosy cheeks.? Aimlessly wandering down the main street, he saw a crowd of people crowded around Pa Kenny?s General Store and Grange all straining to read something.? Curious child that he was, he tugged on a man?s jacket.
?Hey, mister,? he asked, ?what?s all the commotion??
?Oh, hello, Ronnie.?? It was Mr. Carroll who seemed to stop by once a week to visit with mother.? ?Seems that the Russian peasants kicked that old Tsar off of that golden thrown of his!? It?s no time to be a man of wealth in Russia.? I can tell you that much.?
Ronnie pushed through the crowd and saw a newspaper with the headline ?Tsar Nicholas II Forced To Abdicate?.? He didn?t really understand what that meant but as he scanned the paper he saw a picture of a boy just his age on a snow white horse in front of a gleaming palace.? Beneath the picture these words were written.? ?Not even the children spared ? revolutionaries are reportedly killing the young and old alike.?? Even as he felt the tears well up inside himself, he said to himself, ?No.? No, I will not cry.? That is not the way to honor my dead pen pal friend, Ivan.? No.? Instead, I vow to you, God, to destroy these revolutionaries some day and to wipe them off the face of this Earth.? I swear this to you.?
Poor little Ivan was mercilessly executed by Communists who were the
al Qaeda of their day.? If they only knew how Ivan’s death would affect the
course of history, they may have thought twice.
On Christmas Day, 1991, President Reagan smiled as he heard the new that Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as ?President? of the USSR rendering the Soviet Union extinct.? Mrs. Reagan saw him wipe something from his eye.
?Ronnie,? she asked tenderly, ?are you all right??
?Oh,? said the President, ?I?m just fine, Mommy.?
Nancy frowned slightly.? ?What?s going on in that great big handsome head of yours??, she asked.
?Oh,? he sighed with a dream-like satisfaction, ?I?m just thinking about a boy I knew a long time ago.? And a promise I made to him.?
God Bless You, President Reagan!? We’re sure you’re up in Heaven
keeping freedom alive there, as well!
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*Masterbates with her cunt*
God bless President Reagan! One of the best presidents next to Bush!
I have some friends who are recovered alcoholics, and one thing they talk about avoiding is euphoric recall. That is when you remember the nights of fun with friends, having a few beers and enjoying life while forgetting that same night you ran into a tree with your car. People remembering Reagan suffer from euphoric recall. Reagan funded Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. Osama is what he is today thanks to Ronnie Rayguns and Bush 1. Of course the enemy for Osama then was the Soviets in Afghanistan, and Hussein was our guy against the Iranian threat of the day. Funny how our friends turn into our enemies in a short few years.
Bubba
Sir you made this ol veteran weep. I am PROUD of my service in the US ARMY an how we STOPED the COMMIES from takin over the world and America.
I was at Ft Bragg when President Reagan was made PRESIDENT and guys was so happy they signed on agin. My Pappy wanted me back on the farm so I went but we knew it was the END for COMMIES. Sir tonite the Chook family will be sayin prayers for lil Ivan who was the Presidents Friend.
Holton
Irish Catholics are all genetically predisposed to alcoholism? Do Irish Americans like Ronald Reagan who convert to Protestantism miraculously not inherit the alcoholic trait? Ronald Reagan had Alzheimers even as a child? Was that the reason as President he turned the US from the number one creditor nation to the number one debtor nation? Was that how Vice President George H.W. Bush pulled off Iran-Contra without President Reagan knowing about it? Do great Presidents have childhood acquired Alzheimers? Communists were the Al Qaeda of their day? Godless communist governments were like religious fanatic terrorist groups who want a theocracy? The former President Reagan is keeping freedom alive in Heaven? The Almighty God needs help from former President Reagan to keep the Devil and his minions out? What a hilarious comedy bit!
That was a revelation to me.
Ambassadors, diplomats, congressmen, senators, they tried to get their heads about it. But there is no comparison when a world leader has a personal relationship like that. I guess its stupid to fool ourselves and maybe hope against hope that Ivan is still alive somewhere in the huge expanses of that poetic, yet barbarous, land. And if only he had kept those letters from when he was a boy. What a story that man could tell. He would pinch himself now and wonder how it could be that god let him correspond to the actual man who destoryed that evil empire, of which he was an actual sufferrer!
Imagine how those letters got through history. Surviving bolshevik oppression and shells, the ukrainian famine, the second world war, the doctor’s conspiracy, the kitchen debate where Richard Nixon proved something to Nicoli Kruschev, the cold war, Spassky versus Fischer, the 1980 winter olympics, the fall of the evil empire. All that turmoil and trouble to reveal the earliest thoughts of the President, uncensorred by history or passing opinion.
“American cornfields feed the world”
ROTFLMFAOL
I don’t think that Reagan was enough smart at that age.
Poor little Ivan was mercilessly executed by Communists who were the
al Qaeda of their day. If they only knew how Ivan?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s death would affect the
course of history, they may have thought twice.
Actually the russian revolutionaries became communist later. And hey, the Romanovs really treated their people like shit. With policies like the ones deployed by them, it was only a matter of time for that powder keg to go off. The Romanovs had sown the wind and reaped the storm.
So actually Ronnie just wiped those out that came AFTER those curageous revolutionaries. He killed the ones that (often forcefully) replaced them. He basically avenged them! And not his pen-pal.
Sir you made this ol veteran weep. I am PROUD of my service in the US ARMY an how we STOPED the COMMIES from takin over the world and America.
Aye, you did, Holton. But just don?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t forget that you had a lot of friends to help you with that. (My personal opinion about the soviets is something I won?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t bring up here. There could be children reading this site after all. Let?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s just saymy family lost more than half a dozen members to the commies in WWII and during the Cold War.)
America?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s cornfields feed the world
They can?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t even feed america. You need to import food actually.
Reagan: I say it again: Good god that the soviets weren?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t hot-headed when he was around. A hot-headed politb??Ǭ?ro with him in charge of the USA and the whole world would have gone BOOM. Somewhat too much cowboy for my taste.
The German Guy
IMPEACH BUSH!
ummm, youre kidding…… right? Please cite your sources for this fairy tale. speaking of fairy tales, I thought that telling stories like this was against your grain?……
As this story tells, the kid was killed in the February revolution. The revolutionists then wanted democracy in their country. They were only overthrown by Lenin and his bolshewik revolution in the October of the same year.
See wiki for details.
If I made any mistakes, Susanne, shame on me and feel free to correct me.
The German Guy
IMPEACH BUSH!
My personal opinion about the soviets is something I won?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t bring up here. There could be children reading this site after all. Let?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s just saymy family lost more than half a dozen members to the commies in WWII and during the Cold War.
Payback is a bitch, you know.
@Business End: I know. I just don?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t like commies (understatement here). I?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•m just above wanting payback and starting that circle of violence again.
2 Proud German: I just want to remind you that ‘commies’ and ’soviets’ didn’t start WWII nor Cold War.
Darn it, guys, can’t you stop living in the past? What is done, is done and there is nothing you can do about it. The only thing we can do is look ahead and make sure the same mistakes do not repeat themselves. Stop reducing people to their ideologies, religions or nationalities. It sucks.
God or Lucifer or whoever bless all those equipped with brains!
Sen
Darn it, guys, can?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥t you stop living in the past? What is done, is done and there is nothing you can do about it.
All-out friendliness without reducing people to groups is good only in commercial videos, where idiots rejoicing worldwide because some new sort of cola-jeans-mobile phone.
Our past is defining who we are now. And knowledge of one’s past and respect to this past can be only mutual or cannot be at all.
As old Russian proverb says, ‘Who remembers past aloud, will lose his eye. Who forgets it, will lose both’. :-)
I don’t mean we should forget about it. But it’s time to move on. Let’s learn from the past. Past showed us that grudges and prejudice did never lead to anything good.