As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In this age there is a chorus not of political opposition but assassination rhetoric against far too many people, and the words and actions are coming from people like Snoop Dog and Kathy Griffin, in making the mistake that if one person was removed, that all of their problems would be solved. The problem is that like John Hinkley, they are still the same deluded people they were before and ridding the world of John Kennedy only gets you a person no one voted for in Lyndon Johnson.
In this post, I am going to take you into a day which none of you were in or only watched from the outside. It is the day President Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinkley in Washington DC. This story will be told from the perspective of Nancy Reagan, to show you how compartmentalized the information is when an assassination attempt is made.
The rhetoric against President Reagan was equal to what President Trump is enduring. Nothing was new in the media lying about the President, calling the President a liar and stating he was crazy.
This opens in Nancy Reagan is at the White House, she is talking to the decorator when her Secret Service detail motions for her to come and speak to them. It is then she is informed there has been a shooting, but the President was not hit, but others were on the ground and they are all at the hospital.
Mrs. Reagan immediately demands to go to the hospital, because if Ronald is there, she wants to be there to comfort those who have been shot. She is told it would be better if she stayed at the White House, but informs the Secret Service that either they take her or she is walking to the hospital.
A limo appears and the Secret Service escorts the First Lady to the hospital, but due to media, emergency vehicles and onlookers they can not get to the hospital and sit in traffic waiting. The Secret Service talks Mrs. Reagan out of getting out of the car several times and continuing on her own.
When the traffic is finally cleared, Mrs. Reagan enters the hospital and meets Mike Deaver, who tells her the President has been shot and the situation is not good.
Nancy Reagan is stunned by this and begins asking question, asking to see her husband, demanding to see him because she knows that Ronald Reagan needs to see her, to know that she is there, as that is how close the two are, but she is placed into an office and convinced to stay out of the way to let the doctors work.
Over the next eternity a constant stream of nurses appear with reports. The situation is horrifying for someone concerned, as reports come in they have lost the President's pulse and are concerned he is going to go into shock.
They are worried if the President has blood in his stomach and that will have to be removed before operating.
They have found the bullet in an x ray of the President.
He is still losing too much blood so they are going to have to operate.
There is a constant rush of doctors, nurses and law enforcement yelling for the corridors to be cleared and get the media out of there.
In all of this Mike Deaver informs the First Lady that they thought at first the President had a heart attack as he was pale when he came in. It was not until the nurses cut off his clothing that they discovered the small bullet hole in his side without an exit wound.
They will operate and for the first time the First Lady can finally see her husband. She walks into the emergency room, and sees the pile of clothes her husband had cut off of him, there is discarded bloody gauze, there is a tube in his side to inflate his lung, he has on an oxygen mask, he has blood on his lips. He lifts the mask to speak to the First Lady, but she puts it back onto her husband and tells him not to talk.
They move the President down the hallway to the operating room. Mrs Reagan sees Jim Brady the press secretary being moved down the hall to be operated on. He has a head wound. Nurses report they do not expect him to live. His head is open and it is swelled from the shot. He looks horrid.
This is what assassination begins to look like, as it is not clean, people get hurt, others get hurt in the fire, and everyone suffers as a nation suffers.
Mrs. Reagan tells Mike Deaver that her Ronnie looks bad in he is ashen. Mike Deaver responds that she should have seen him when he came in. Mrs. Reagan does not understand the meaning until later of how bad it was.
The First Lady is moved to a waiting room. She goes to the window and is moved back by the Secret Service as they do not know if there are other shooters. She sees the sheets in buildings across the street of people sending good prayers.
Sarah Brady, the wife of Jim Brady appears. They go down to the chapel to pray.
The nurses are coming in again with reports. They can't find the bullet. They might have to close him up. She wonders how they can not find the bullet, another report comes in that they found the bullet, some good news, they removed it from his lower left lung, it flattened to a dime size and missed his heart by an inch.
It has been almost 5 hours, and at 7:30 the President finally wakes up. He tries sitting up as he says he can not breathe. There is a tube down his throat, but his son Ron jr. assures the President he is breathing as the machine is doing the work, he lays back down and scrawls weakly asking if he is alive, as he later told his wife that he saw all white, all the people in white, and thought maybe he had died and was in Heaven.
Mrs. Reagan leaves the hospital as it is deemed important to send that message to the country that the President is recovering. She does not sleep at all that night. She is cold and her son lights a fire in the room. She watches television until morning.
The President has not slept all night. Ron jr. was in Nebraska with his family and chartered a plane. The military plane for the other Reagan children does not arrive until the next morning.
The President is rolled on his side every 4 hours and the nurses are pounding his back in order to loosen the fluids building up in his lungs. The First Lady tells her step daughter the sounds are what the nurses are doing to her father to keep him alive.
When Mrs. Reagan does get to speak to her husband, they have kept him in the dark about the others injured. When told of the others, and Jim Brady was shot in the head, it is the first time he is angered and curses as he slams his fist into the bed saying, "Damn".
Normal people would never want anyone to go through anything like this nor put a nation through this. Normal people would understand that there is nothing pleasant about people being injured or what their families go through. Normal people consider realities like this and would not have to be in a position of someone they care about being hurt or dying to understand that people should not ever be put through things like this.
The above is a rare glimpse of what assassination really is. Jackie Kennedy never recorded the events she suffered through and all there is are bits and pieces of her misery, from holding a piece of her husband's brain for the doctors in case they needed it.
Our world has enough horror and problems and adding to it in voicing not thought out realities of what their wishes are is something which until they witness the reality never begins dawning on them, and in that their first thought will be, "Why are people blaming me as this is all so unfair". That trauma they can relate to, but not the pain of others and a nation.
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