Ronald Reagan, remembered

From The American Thinker:

One year ago today, June 11th, 2004, Ron Reagan, Jr. spoke these words at his father’s memorial service in California:

“Dad never wore his religion on his sleeve, and never felt he had a mandate from God, unlike some other politicians.”

If any politician ever had a mandate from God, it was the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan. He joined an elite list of great Americans in this regard: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln among them. Mr. Washington was an instrument in the hands of God in birthing a nation; Mr. Lincoln in preserving a nation. In America’s second century, an evil force called communism was determined to bring a godless socialist system to our shores and wipe away any vestige of honor bestowed to the Almighty.