By Peter, E., San Diego, CA posted April 6th, 2009
I was a big fan the President Reagan. Not only because of what he did to turn our country around after Jimmy Carter, but because he seemed like a regular, happy guy.
I remember as a teen, watching press shots of Reagan working on his Ranch in California. Those images were America, and they inspired me to want to be a cowboy. Not the herd the herd, rope the calf cowboy, but I man who lived the values of the west. I wanted to be as happy as President Reagan looked when he was riding his horse on his ranch.
I couldn’t afford the ranch or the horse, but I was able to save up to buy my first pair of boots. They were Tony Lama, they were inexpensive and they were mine.
Now, as an adult I can afford any pair of boots I like and I have little place to ride and I often think back to how the Gipper inspired me to be a happy American and how he inspired me to buy my first pair of boots.
