To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President

People Live Longer Today Than They Ever Have. They Live Happier Lives, Have More Knowledge, More Information. All This Is The Result Of Communications Technology. How Is Any Of That Bad?

The Point Of Life Was To Press On, To Do The Best You Can, To Make The World A Better Place.

And So Began Something That Had Not Quite Begun And Would Not Soon End, With Many People In Many Places Moving Off In Directions And On Missions Which They All Mistakenly Thought They Understood. That Was Just As Well. The Future Was Too Fearful For Contemplation, And Beyond The Expected, Illusory Finish Lines Were Things Fated By The Decisions Made This Morning -- And, Once Decided, Best Unseen.

Every Person You Meet - And Everything You Do In Life - Is An Opportunity To Learn Something.

The Good Of The People Was A Laudable Enough Goal, But In Denying A Man's Soul, An Enduring Part Of His Being, Marxism Stripped Away The Foundation Of Human Dignity And Individual Value. It Also Cast Aside The Objective Measure Of Justice And Ethics Which, He Decided, Was The Principal Legacy Of Religion To Civilized Life.