<<<Reagan wanted to go back to a normal life and spoke of that connection with other veterans.>>>
That isn't what he said, is it? Do you purposely read with such an absence of sensitivity to even unsubtle nuances? This shameless man who had spent the war in Hollywood, lying each night next to his wife in a comfortable bed, drew around himself as a decoration the cloak of sacrifice that had been earned with blood, sweat and tears, as the precisely accurate cliche goes, by the "several millions" he claimed to have so much "in common with."
You call it a stupid conclusion?-- to think that Reagan was trying to look like he, "IN COMMON WITH" the veterans who had NOT spent the war making love to their wives any damn time they wanted to between clean sheets and ten feet from a full fridge so they could have chocolate ice cream after and take a nice cool bath together, and if it was a Sunday, sleep late and read about the genuine horrific, and exhausting sacrifices made by OTHER veterans, not by him, OTHERS, with whom he has some goddam nerve claiming a commonality of sacrifice or need of rest or need to lie in bed with their wives, whose faces they might not have had clear any more were it not for muddy pictures in their pockets. |
