“If we look to the answer as to why, for so many years, we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on Earth, it was because here, in this land, we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before,”
“Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on Earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price.”
“Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don’t know where to look. The sloping hills of Arlington National Cemetery with its row on row of simple white markers bearing crosses or Stars of David. They add up to only a tiny fraction of the price that has been paid for our freedom.”
“Under one such marker lies a young man–Martin Treptow–who left his job in a small-town barbershop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire.”
“We are told that on his body was found a diary. On the flyleaf under the heading, ‘My Pledge,’ he had written these words: ‘America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.'”
“The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. It does require, however, our best effort, and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God’s help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.”
“And, after all, why shouldn’t we believe that? We are Americans.”
When a nation and country of people needed a communicator in Ronald Reagan they, we got The Great Communicator. His bluntness mixed with grace, ease, and straight to the heart delivery was what our nation, these United States of America needed during the times that we lived in in the 1980s. We were at war with Russia; during the Cold War when times felt like it was fleeting President Reagan’s voice was like a stalwart grandfather. Even his mannerisms calmed one’s mind. His humor and his life stories that he would tell gave us all that needed sense of he’s one of us. Mr. Reagan may have had faults but He was and still is THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR.
LET’S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
Ronald Regan Patriotic Speech