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Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

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0 posted 2004-12-09 11:00 AM

Goodbye, Dutch....

Flags
   half staff and
          yearning down
as if they would join him there...

The air
    stirs, flares
          those sharp colors
like hope in the late day sun....

The world
    will go on
          and he’ll go on too;
this bare hilltop won’t hold him.

I can see
     him here, riding
          toward the sunset,
knowing it will become dawn.

“I know in my heart that man is good,
that what is right will always eventually triumph,
and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Feb. 6, 1911 -- June 5, 2004

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2004-12-09 11:05 AM

Ratleader
Well done, good write, Liked the pictures.

Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

2 posted 2004-12-09 11:20 AM

very well done sir.....enjoyed.

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

3 posted 2004-12-09 11:26 AM

My hats off to you sir, on a fabulous and heartwarming tribute.

Excellent!

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2004-12-09 11:44 AM

A fantastic tribute...very well done.
I love the pics too.
Hugs~Nancy

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 2004-12-09 11:47 AM

Ed

A wonderful tribute to a good man...thank you for posting it.

JL
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since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

6 posted 2004-12-09 11:52 AM

Yes Sir! This is a beautiful tribute!
Excellent write Ratleader.

JL

kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

7 posted 2004-12-09 12:01 PM

Nicely done, Ed. He was certainly a man who showed us all what we could do with our lives. Ken

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

8 posted 2004-12-09 12:03 PM

I recently visited CA...
had hoped to get up there...
but other things were
pressing...
but it would have been nice
to say goodbye in person
just as I said hello, in person,
on the 1980 train ride through Michigan.

Well done, Sir.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

9 posted 2004-12-09 12:35 PM

What a beautiful tribute! The images your words give us have such elegance, such refinement... and a simple goodness... much like the man himself. And then the pictures enhance what was already perfection... Beautiful work! *S*

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

10 posted 2004-12-11 07:40 AM

he is missed and remembered well

wonderful tribute Ed

love the new pic too

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

11 posted 2004-12-11 11:32 PM

Ed~
Such a heartwarming tribute~

Thank you ... happiest of holiday greetings to you and yours~
Merry Christmas, my friend~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

Email noles1@totcon.com

vandana

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since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

12 posted 2004-12-12 04:51 PM

good write

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24

Posts 4060
OH

13 posted 2004-12-12 05:37 PM

wonderful writing about a wonderful man and his wisdom... thank you
miscellanea

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