Commentary
Michael Gerald Reagan, Marine Vietnam combat veteran and nationally known artist to presidents, athletes, and Hollywood stars, opened his 75-year-old hands and showed his palms to me. “You see these hands?” he said quietly. “It’s the only part of you that you can look directly at. You can only see your face through a mirror. But you can look at your hands directly and see all the changes they go through during your life. These hands have been dirty digging trenches, bloody with the blood of a dying man, and have drawn presidents, famous actors, and athletes, and now are drawing the portraits of the fallen for Gold Star families.”…