OPINION: Elfie Gallun sent a letter to President Reagan about her escape from East Germany. She was moved by his 1984 acceptance speech and references to the people carrying the Olympic torch through our country. She was particularly touched when he said, “This is what America is all about.” In her letter, Gallun, who passed away in 2019, explained her efforts to escape East Germany when she was just 19. On her first attempt, in 1951, she was caught by the authorities as she tried to cross the