Jennifer Regan, member of the United States (CH)Air Force, and currently deployed to Afghan Land, has been made famous since the death of Americas 40th president, Ronald Reagan. Coworkers and locals have been offering their condolences to Regan as if she were related to the late Ex-president. "I don't understand," remarks Regan, "our names are not even spelled the same."

      Regan's Family, that lives in the mountains of North Carolina, in unaware of any relation to the presidential family. Jennifer's Father, Ron Regan, commented on how he constantly endured jokes made about his name throughout, and following the Reagan years. "I never thought my daughter would have to go through this." As Regan's dad shakes his head, a tear of sympathy falls down his face.

      Coworker Sarah Bell had asked Jennifer Regan if she got to "see the ex-president much, and was it hard to see him with his Alzheimer's disease." Fed-up with the jokes, in this case stupidity, Regan replied "that it was indeed hard to see him, he was always doing stuff with TV funhouse for Saturday Night Live. Oh and then there is the fact that he has no idea that who I am, not cause he can't remember, but because I'm not related!"

      "I am always surprised to see who the ChAir Force has let in the door. I mean some of the people I work with are really dense." Regan says, with an ever-so-slight hint of cynicism.

 
     "The funniest thing is when the Hajji's come up to say, ' sorry about president." comments Steven Spires, Regan's supervisor. " We are pretty sure it is cause of her name, they don't come up to any of the rest of us and say that. I'm sorry about the president too, but I'm sorry about the one we got."

     Spires refers to the local Afghanistanians that approach Regan to express there condolences. The Afghanistanians remember Reagan from when he have them gobbs of cash and really big guns and lots of other cool toys to fight the Russians and effectively setting the stage for the current state of affairs.

     "I don't expect the Hajjis to know that I'm not related to Ronald Reagan, I just smile at them and say thanks. However, the level of stupidity I must endure, day after day, from people that I work with, is ridiculous. I'm in the military for goodness sakes, the bar needs to be raised."

 

Caleb Hunt is a writer for The Alaskan Tarheel. He is also the like only guy that does anything around here for The Alaskan Tarheel too. Wow, that guy is awesome!

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