<This article was a good reminder of what we went through at the end of the Cold War, and despite the frantic attempts of the Left to rewrite history, who was responsible for us winning, and who were the biggest obstacles to that victory.

I really liked Reagan, and I like the effect he still has on leftists. The mere mention of his name evokes from them that cringing, openmouthed hiss that one usually sees in vampire movies when one confronts Vlad with an ornate crucifix. I can do the same thing to them by waving an American flag, but it's hard to carry one around with you and I only have two flag T-shirts.

My grandfather--my last grandparent--died last night. At the end he was one of those very, very old men who spent long years slumped in a chair in a home. His great farmer's strength gone, betraying him at the last by leaving him a powerful heart that went on for years after his beloved wife died and his body failed. But my mother and aunt cared for him constantly--he was never alone.

Reagan is like that now, slumped in a chair somewhere, cared for endlessly by a loving wife he no longer knows, and forgotten by many who no longer live under the shadow of worldwide nuclear holocaust.

But I remember them both the way they were.

I don't have a picture of my grandfather in his prime to put here. I'll make do with one of Reagan.