How long shall they kill our prophets?

[Minstrel Boy]

Photographs from the RFK funeral train.


Old pirates, yes, they rob i;
Sold i to the merchant ships,



Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit.



But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty.



We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.



Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom?
'cause all i ever have: Redemption songs.



Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.



Have no fear for atomic energy,
'cause none of them can stop the time.



How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?



Some say its just a part of it:
We've got to fulfill the book.



Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom?
'cause all i ever have: Redemption songs.

[mike_c]

1. what amazing photos....

That is so moving.

[mdmc]

4. k/r

:patriot::cry::patriot:

[DixieBlue]

2. Thank you for this post ...

The hopes of a generation on that train.

What have we become?

[Marnieworld]

3. Beautiful. Thanks.

I didn't see at first what it was but only through the pictures figured it out. I've never seen those pictures before. The fact that just everyone saluted shows how a man of peace is mourned.

I salute as well. :patriot:

[spuddonna]

5. Thank you...

:cry:

[mazzarro]

6. Thank You -- n/t

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. How moving these photos are. I was moved by them before I

saw who and what what their subject was. The scattered knots of mourners, regular, down-to-earth, toiling, suffering people, seem to convey a pathos even more powerful than massive crowds or ceremonies of state, at which the people have had the opportunity to dress up smartly as a token of their respect.

I also happened to be playing The Old Rugged Cross for the first time in many months. Photos, moving and still, seem to be powerful media of spiritual communication.

[roguevalley]

21. it was the death of hope.

[Joe Chi Minh]

35. It must have been.

[Critters2]

8. Thanks

I was moved to tears.

[EFerrari]

9. Kick

[seemslikeadream]

10. Khibil ahamlack, yim mas gan

Y mas gan ulaghize
Let him be praised continually
Khibil ahamlack, yim mas gan
Glory to god, let him be praised

He will take us by the hand
And lead us to the wonderland
If we can be good, we'll be careful
And do the best we can

Ulaghize y mas gan
Let him be praised continually

He will take us by the hand
And lead us to the wonderland
If we can be good, we'll be careful
And do the best we can

Y mas gan ulaghize
Let him be praised continually
Khibil ahamlack, yim mas gan
Glory to god, let him be praised

He will take us by the hand
And lead us to the wonderland
If we can be good, we'll be careful
And do the best we can

Ulaghize y mas gan
Let him be praised continually
Ulaghize yim mas gan
Let him be praised continually

jah bless Minstrel Boy jah bless

[Minstrel Boy]

12. i and i

we ketch dem vampire

[Lady Effingbroke]

11. The chasm between what could have been and what was, and what is today...

the hopes and dreams of those people... :cry:

K&R

[Lasher]

13. Where could we have gone if Bobby could have stayed with us?

He freed a lot of people but seems the good, they die young. Not about Bobby but the sentiment applies.

[EFerrari]

14. kick

[earth mom]

15. K & R. Thank you.

:cry:

[DeepModem Mom]

16. Thank you.

[Philosoraptor]

17. Thank you.

[mirandapriestly]

18. Those are so cool

pictures tell a thousand words ,wow.

[Swede]

19. Didn't you love the things he stood for?

Abraham,Martin and John - Dion

Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
You know, I just looked around and he's gone.

Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
I just looked around and he's gone.

Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
I just looked 'round and he's gone.

Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, and it's a-gonna be one day ...

Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill,
With Abraham, Martin and John.

[zippy890]

20. thanks for posting

:dem:

[northamericancitizen]

22. Thank you

[H2O Man]

23. Let no one, he said in his

most eloquent passage, be discoveraged by

"the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence ... Few have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

"It is from numberless diverese acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres od energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

-- Robert Kennedy and his times; Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; page 803, quoting from RFK in South Africa

[G_j]

24. K&R

Wow! great post

[seemslikeadream]

26. G_j !!

Good to see you! :hi:

They tried to fool the black population
By telling us jah jah dead
Say they tried to fool the black population
By telling us jah jah dead..
I & I knows jah - jah nuh dead - jah nuh dead

Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Oooh nooo - jah nuh dead

My knowledge increase
My memory reflect
Marcus Garvey did say

A rumour rumour rumour rumour rumour
Aah Marcus say

Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Oooh nooo - jah nuh dead

It was I-man who say
I it's Green and gold, it's the rainbow

The lion the lion decrowned the king
The lion the lion decrowned the king
Inna in adis abeba - aaafrica

Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Oooh nooo - jah nuh dead

Meet me at the bank of the beautiful river
When your journey has end
I & I will discuss about this matter
Jah nuh dead, jah nuh dead, jah nuh dead

[G_j]

27. it's the rainbow !!

:hi: :hi: :hi:
Meet me at the bank of the beautiful river
When your journey has end
:-) :-) :-)

[Usrename]

25. K&R

another fine post!

[butterfly77]

28. THANK YOU!

[shance]

29. Beautiful tribute MB.

The spirit of Bobby Kennedy and his legacy continue and are given the deserved recognition when people like you share your words and as well, these moving photos.

Thank you.

[FredMertz]

30. Kick

Thanks for posting.

[mogster]

31. Great post! K&R n/t

[Joanne98]

32. One of the saddest days ever.

[applegrove]

33. Yes. Great photos. Another time. Don't remember it actually. But yeah -

great photos. I could never understand how america became such a big gun culture after such a small number of nuts ended it (great leadership) three times in a row (or four if you count Malcolm X). Four nuts. And the dreams for millions ended.

[chiffon]

34. Simply...Sadly...Beautiful.

[Miss Marmelstein]

36. Wow....I'm speechless

Thanks for the post

[DrDebug]

37. K&R

It's gorgeous

[Pharaoh]

38. Wow Wow Wow!!!!

great pics!!!!

How we need you now Bobby!

[Burried News]

39. Never forget. Never forgive.

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

[tomreedtoon]

44. And exactly who is not to be forgiven? The PLO? Israel's enemies?

People can play games with the assassinations of JFK, MLK and others, but Sirhan Sirhan was pretty clear about his reasons for killing RFK. He hated the support of Israel that Kennedy promoted.

There were, in fact, a lot of Palestinians who celebrated the assassination of the Israel-lover Kennedy in posters and song. So, since you have decreed that there is to be no forgiveness, should we lump Palestinians in with the Empire of Evil?

If this sounds like carping, well, the last time I heard "he never forgets and he never forgives" was in the title song of "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street." Not a great role model.

[Snaggletooth]

40. Don't go breaking my heart...again.

Thank you. I remember that day. And now I'm in tears again.

I think the perfect 2008 ticket would be Al Gore and RFK, Jr. But I don't know if we could ever get over it if the unthinkable were to happen again; another coincidental twist of fate that favors the tyrants among us...


Snaggletooth the Crone

[Generic Other]

41. Beautiful Minstrel Boy

Breathtaking.

[BrklynLiberal]

42. The end of the innocence.....

[Solomon]

43. Damn. You've made me cry. I was one of those kids on the traintracks

waiting for the coffin train to come by. We all went out to salute RFK that day.

Thanks for bringing back that memory. That feeling. It's been gone ever since RFK left. He was the last hope. It died with him. It was almost toomuch take so soon after MLK.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

45. Many thanks Minstrel Boy

Touching, sad and beautiful.

[me b zola]

46. Thank you, Minstrel Boy

The assassinations that occured in the 60's, JFK, MLK, and JFK, struck a horrible blow to our collective soul. It seems as though we have been souless, rudderless, ever since.

[pberq]

47. Heartwrenching!

Kick and Nominated

[rman]

48. kick

[Kurovski]

49. Remembering with tears now.

I was a boy when it happened, and my mother came to my room, stunned, and said "They've killed another one."

Martin Luther King Jr. had just been assassinated three months prior.

[bloom]

50. kick