Arthur A Weiss

[Arthur A Weiss @artbluehawk74]

@alec_lewis Agreed but that’s what happens when you watch inslow motion. Sucks

[Arthur A Weiss @artbluehawk74]

@AaronGleeman Unfortunately very predictable

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

On December 25, 1983, Ronald and Nancy Reagan quietly broke presidential protocol in the most beautiful way imaginable. Before dawn, at 6 a.m., they slipped out of the White House without fanfare, drove themselves to a small suburban Virginia nursing home, and spent the morning serving breakfast to elderly residents who had no family to visit them on Christmas Day. Nancy stood at the griddle flipping pancakes, while Ronnie sat beside a 90-year-old woman with dementia who kept calling him “son.” He never corrected her. He simply held her hand and whispered, “I’m here, Mama. I’m here.”

The Secret Service was frantic—there was no full security detail, no advance planning, no press. This wasn’t a staged moment or a political gesture. It began because Nancy had read a letter from a nursing home administrator describing the crushing loneliness many residents felt during the holidays. She turned to Ronnie and said, “We have to do something. These could be our parents.”

What few people knew at the time was that this wasn’t a one-day act of kindness. It became a private tradition the Reagans repeated every Christmas throughout all eight years of the presidency. Always in secret. Always without cameras. Nancy baked cookies herself the night before. Ronnie brought letters from soldiers overseas and read them aloud to veterans whose eyes could no longer manage the words.

One Christmas, Reagan spent forty-five minutes sitting beside a dying Korean War veteran, holding his hand and praying quietly so he wouldn’t have to leave this world alone. When Nancy found them, Ronnie was crying. “No hero,” he told her, “should die without someone telling them thank you.”

These stories only surfaced years later, shared by nursing home staff after Reagan’s death. They endure because they reveal something rare and enduring—that the most meaningful acts of love and service are often the ones no one sees, done not for recognition or applause, but simply because the heart knows it must show up.

[Arthur A Weiss @artbluehawk74]

@MontyMayer @FBGreatMoments Tommy Kramer

[Arthur A Weiss @artbluehawk74]

Good luck

[Mike Zier @ZierMike]

7% chance we don’t lose power tonight 💨

[Arthur A Weiss @artbluehawk74]

@ShaneHpns @my__apocalypse I enjoy following storm chasing and have not noticed that chasing has caused trouble around the northlands keep up the cause

[Arthur A Weiss @artbluehawk74]

@MontyMayer @SteveTasker89 Weird

[Arthur A Weiss @artbluehawk74]

@ZierMike Good luck today

[Arthur A Weiss @artbluehawk74]

@jdspn_radio 👍

[Bite-Sized Nostalgia @landofthe80s]

"Red Dawn" debuted in theatres today in 1984. The film stars stars Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey. #80s

[Arthur A Weiss @artbluehawk74]

@MontyMayer @SergeantMartee Did McHale spend some time as the 6th man

[Jim Dahl ⚾️ 🏀 🏈 📻 🎤 @jdspn_radio]

How many NAIA schools can say they have an alum coaching in the NFL??? Dickinson State can!

[Johnny Cadillac @lippyent]

😔

[Hayes McDole @hayes_mcdole]

A cow's nest, for those of you who always wondered how baby calves were born.

[Arthur A Weiss @artbluehawk74]

@Todd_Spence I worked in won like that👍

[🦅 Eagle Wings 🦅 @CRRJA5]

♦️THE GOOD OLE DAYS.♦️

[Arthur A Weiss @artbluehawk74]

@jsimpfenderfer @ZierMike @jdspn_radio I made a lot of pizzas out in Dickinson

[NEWSMAX @NEWSMAX]

The Old State Saloon in Eagle, Idaho, is spearheading a provocative cultural pushback to gay Pride with the first-ever Hetero Awesome Fest. https://t.co/O3UQ6Kw7WI