June 07, 2004
Friday June 11, 2004: National Day of Mourning for Those Who Died Thanks to the Policies of President Reagan
It would be macabre to celebrate the death of Ronald Reagan, but I can't join in this national orgy of sentimental remembrance, either.
Let us instead take time this coming Friday, a day decreed a "National Day of Mourning" in honor of Reagan by George W. Bush, to remember the 60,000 who died of AIDS during the Reagan administration. The President was silent on AIDS for the first six years of his administration.
Or, on Friday, let us mourn the tens of thousands who died in Central America in the 1980s as a result of Reagan administration anti-Communist policies that entailed supporting brutal dictatorial regimes in the region, including the arming and training of Contra forces to unseat the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
Posted by Emily at June 7, 2004 11:11 AM