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SENATOR TED KENNEDY HAS DIED

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Senator Edward Kennedy has died. He was 77. The last remaining son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy and their youngest child, Ted Kennedy lived to see the deaths of his brother Joe, during an ill fated bombing mission in World War II, and brothers John and Robert at the hands of assassins. Ted Kennedy had many "finest hours" including epic battles in the Senate, his "The Dream Lives On" speech conceding defeat to President Jimmy Carter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention and many others. But for us, Ted Kennedy never stood taller then when he eulogized his last surviving brother- Robert, in June of 1968 in New York: My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).