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Ronald Reagan is gone. I didn't know him personally, but I had heard of him. Apparently he did great things in his time for the country he managed, for the world.

Last week Nelson Mandela retired permanently from public life in South Africa and world-wide. He wants time to sit at home and be an old man. There is talk that he may not be around much longer. And the news mentioned that when he dies the police will be geared up to deal with a grief-related crime surge.

Icons. More and more of them are passing on. Every few days there's another.