We all knew this day was coming, most people do not live for over a year with brain cancer and he had made it for several months past that. But I was not ready to hear about it this morning on the radio. I would never have been ready to hear about it and I can only imagine how heart breaking it is for his family, friends and co-workers.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins' bullets, has died at his home in Hyannis Port after battling a brain tumor. He was 77.
He owed this country nothing. He had money, he didn't need to work, but he spent almost 50 years toiling for a better, brighter America.
He wasn't perfect and there will be many stories about his failings over the next days, weeks and months, but it is my belief that we, as a nation, should appreciate the things he worked so hard to provide. Today is a sad day as we remember him and there will come a time when the health care bill is signed into law and the day will be bittersweet because he is not with us to celebrate.
My thoughts are with his family.
RIP, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, D - Mass. Thank you for your service.
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a beautiful tribute.
he worked so hard-- it sad he won't be here to see the fruition.
Thank you, I agree with you, I just hope, hope, hope that there will be fruition to his dreams. People are crazy, you know.
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