Plan "B"

I was going to rant about Java LayoutManagers today, but there's a much more pressing issue that I feel I need to jot down. As with most people in the States today, we are remembering Ronald Reagan in our different ways. I remember him mostly because he was president when I was in high school, when I was old enough to vote, and when I joined the Army. His decisions affected me very deeply along with thousands of men and women in the armed services. Although we called him "Ronnie Ray-Gun" because of his "Star Wars" efforts, he was key in winning the cold war - without a single shot being fired. There's something to be said for that.

At the time, I didn't know the impact of the, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. Imagine if Reagan had done what Bush Jr. is doing? War with Russia in the 1980's - yikes. If that doesn't make you think that Reagan was a good president for foreign policy, I don't know what will. Then again, what do I know. I don't know off the top of my head which president was in office when the U.S. trained Osama Bin Laden and his gang-o-thugs. I don't know the consequence of Iran/Contra.

Heck, there's lots about Reagan and his administration that I don't know. What I do know is that we was fond of jelly beans, had great hair and he loved his wife, Nancy very very much.