Where Ronald Reagan Hallucinated During WW II: Difference between revisions

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Unfinished History

Fort Mason in northern San Francisco, Building 201 is white building at right. In foreground is the well-known Ft. Mason Community Garden, open to the public since 1976.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Building 201, Fort Mason. In this building, during the second World War, there worked a second lieutenant named Ronald Wilson Reagan. His job was to track down shipments that had gone astray. The safe, cushy "dream job" must have set him to dreaming, for years later, as President of the United States, he would tell stories about his combat service against the Nazis, going so far as to claim that he had participated in liberating the concentration camps. The truth is that not only did Reagan never see combat, he never even left the U.S.. In reality, he did routine desk jobs, like the one at Fort Mason, and acted in a few propaganda films. So as you walk by building 201, imagine a young, handsome second lieutenant sitting behind a desk, bored out of his gourd, daydreaming of battle with the Nazis. Those daydreams apparently somehow transformed themselves into bogus memories during the course of Reagan's political career as a stooge of the military-industrial complex.

--Dr. Weirde

After work watering at Ft. Mason Community Garden.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Apples at Ft. Mason Community Garden, a starting point for urban agriculture.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Hothouse at Ft. Mason Community Garden.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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-'''Fort Mason in northern San Francisco, Building 201 is white building behind green.'''
+'''Fort Mason in northern San Francisco, Building 201 is white building at right. In foreground is the well-known Ft. Mason Community Garden, open to the public since 1976.'''
-''Photo: Carla Lazer''
+''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
-'''Building 201, Fort Mason'''. In this building, during the second World War, there worked a second lieutenant named Ronald Wilson Reagan. His job was to track down shipments that had gone astray. The safe, cushy "dream job" must have set him to dreaming, for years later, as President of the United States, he would tell stories about his combat service against the Nazis, going so far as to claim that he had participated in liberating the concentration camps. The truth is that not only did Reagan never see combat, he never even left the U.S.. In reality, he did routine desk jobs, like the one at Fort Mason, and acted in a few propaganda films. So as you walk by building 201, imagine a young, handsome second lieutenant sitting behind a desk, bored out of his gourd, daydreaming of battle with the Nazis. Those daydreams apparently somehow transformed themselves into bogus memories during the course of Reagan's political career as a stooge of the military-industrial complex.
+'''Building 201, [http://www.fortmason.org/index.shtml Fort Mason]'''. In this building, during the second World War, there worked a second lieutenant named Ronald Wilson Reagan. His job was to track down shipments that had gone astray. The safe, cushy "dream job" must have set him to dreaming, for years later, as President of the United States, he would tell stories about his combat service against the Nazis, going so far as to claim that he had participated in liberating the concentration camps. The truth is that not only did Reagan never see combat, he never even left the U.S.. In reality, he did routine desk jobs, like the one at Fort Mason, and acted in a few propaganda films. So as you walk by building 201, imagine a young, handsome second lieutenant sitting behind a desk, bored out of his gourd, daydreaming of battle with the Nazis. Those daydreams apparently somehow transformed themselves into bogus memories during the course of Reagan's political career as a stooge of the military-industrial complex.
 ''--Dr. Weirde''
+[[Image:Ft-mason-garden-old-man-watering 1211.jpg]]
+'''After work watering at Ft. Mason Community Garden.'''
+''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
+[[Image:Ft-mason-garden-apples 1210.jpg]]
+'''Apples at Ft. Mason Community Garden, a starting point for urban agriculture.'''
+''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
+[[Image:Ft-mason-garden-hothouse 1199.jpg]]
+'''Hothouse at Ft. Mason Community Garden.'''
+''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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