Dear Kim C:
As far as being kind to him for the sake of his family, I am sure his kids understand the depth of feeling people have who opposed the "Reagan Revolution" - that march to American facism underwhich the rich do not need to fund their part of the national obligation, and the Bill of Rights is equated with Communism. I may remind you of his son's reply to his father's sence of the world, when he had his TV show.... "No, my father is wrong, trees do not cause polution..." As I said, it is a blessing that his kids where with him when he died, and had undergone a time of forgiving each other. But, as for the rest of us, we had to see that Crook (my co-religionist) Nixon remade at his death, and now we are seeing it again with Mr. Reagan. Sure, he was a jovial guy, likely generous with the people around him, but he was a bilght on American democracy.
All the best, and my condolences.
Larry