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The first time was seeing how the little boy whose mother died for lack of insurance was standing right next to Obama's desk as he signed. Thinking about how this is a story he will tell his grandchildren, if he has any, until they get positively sick of hearing it.
"Oh jeez, is Grandpa telling the story again about how he watched the President sign the health-care bill?"
"Yeah...let's go play games."
And it's actually a beautiful thing that by that time, they will think his story is no big deal, or at least that their government being involved in health care is no big deal. And the fact that Grandpa was there at the signing of that bill will only be proof in their eyes of how old and decrepit he really is. Because they will never have known what it was like to have parents who worried about paying their medical bills. That will be an old scare story out of the past.
Someday, your grandson will understand the full import of what he watched today, and when he does, and hears you tell him how excited he was even before he understood it all, he'll say "I was a pretty smart kid even then, wasn't I, Grandma? I knew what that bill would mean to me." And you'll laugh and say "Yes, you did."
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