Here is the text of Edward Kennedy's eulogy for his brother Bobby.

[Swede]

It was 38 years today.


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.

Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world.

As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him:

"Some men see things as they are and say why.
I dream things that never were and say why not."

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ekennedytributetorfk.html

[baby_bear]

1. Thank you Swede

I will never forget it. It was a pivotal event for the world, the U.S. and for my family. I was a young teenager but an ardent RFK supporter. My parents were working in McCarthy's campaign but also loved Bobby. My father took me to see him in Southern California not long before he was killed. He appeared at the town plaza in Oxnard, California. My father gave me a hair pin ("bobby pin") to put on my blouse as a sign of support.

My mother woke me up after midnight when he had been shot, to tell me. She knew I would want to know.

Sometimes it seems like nothing good ever happened after that. There was Chicago in August. My parents broke up 6 weeks after that. There was no hope.

I still am so sad thinking about Bobby. What if.....

b_b

[Erika]

2. The Kennedy's were raised with a mandate to public service

They were "privileged" so they should help the needy as their mother taught. W was raised in the republican mandate, you were born rich and keep it that way. It's your entitlement as a rich person.

I will never forgive the crass, and utterly gross, republicans who hate Ted Kennedy. His brother Joe was killed in war, Bobby and JFK were assassinated.

The pettiness of those Ted Kennedy haters disgust me. They put themselves above Ted Kennedy while Ted lost all his living brothers. They are contemptuous beyond belief.