From a reader:

The Gipper’s First Inaugural Address:
“Beyond those monuments to heroism is the Potomac River, and on the far shore the sloping hills of Arlington National Cemetery, with its row upon row of simple white markers bearing crosses of Stars of David. They add up to only a tiny fraction of the price that has been paid for our freedom. Each one of those markers is a monument to the kind of hero I spoke of earlier. Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, the Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno, and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam.” At a minimum, this statement is intended to reflect the nobility of the cause and the sacrifices of the military, which to say the least, does not mesh with the “antiwar protestors-as saviors of the Republic” 1960s nostalgia. No one has to point out the obvious that Reagan created talk radio, and 1981 was more than “three years ago”.