As we mourn our former President Jerry John Rawling's death, we will have to take some time to reminisce about the past aura about him and what he did for the country as a whole.
As human as he was, we must comprehend he can not be perfect but we must endeavor to look beyond the imperfections and focus on the positives.
The late Jerry John Rawlings, then Chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council, addressing supporters of the AFRC 31st December 1981 revolution who had gathered at Burma Camp after parading through the streets of Accra, Ghana, January 1982. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The Late President of Ghana Jerry John Rawlings and the late Muammar Al Gaddafi during the 18th Anniversary Of The Libyan Revolution in 1987 (Photo by Francois LOCHON /GAMMA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Speech by the late Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings on the 18th anniversary of the Libyan revolution on September 2, 1987 in Tripoli, Libya. (Photo by Francois LOCHON / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
The Late President of Ghana. Jerry Rawlings (C) speaking outside White House. (Photo by Cynthia Johnson/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)
(From L) Ghana's former Presidents John Dramani Mahama and the late Jerry Rawlings, Senegal's President Macky Sall, and Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma attend the swearing-in ceremony of Liberia's president-elect on January 22, 2018, in Monrovia's stadium. To the cheers of a crowd fired by his promise to bring them jobs and prosperity, former football star George Weah was sworn in as president of Liberia on January 22, completing the country's first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. / AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)
US Pres. Bill (C) & Hillary Rodham Clinton (2nd from R) w. their host the now late Ghanian Pres. Jerry Rawlings (3rd from L) & wife during arrival fete at start of his African tour (Photo by Cynthia Johnson/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)
TOKYO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 22: Ghana's Provisional National Defence Council Chairman (late) Jerry John Rawlings is seen on arrival ahead of the Funeral of late Emperor Hirohito at Haneda Airport on February 22, 1989 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images
The late Former Ghanaian president Jerry Rawlings (R) greets 29 September, 2001 orphans, at the Nyumbani Children's home in Nairobi. Rawlings is in the country on a three-day visit to lead a campaign against AIDS as a UN Volunteers' Eminent Person, Kenyan media reported. Then Kenyan (Late) President Daniel Arap Moi declared HIV/AIDS a national disaster in November 1999, and recently the health ministry announced that it would import 300 million condoms. / AFP / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images
These are also some great snapshots of him we greatly admire
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