For Those Too Young To Remember, And Especially For Those That Do...

[WillyT]

RFK's funeral train.

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His body was returned to New York City, where he lay in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral for several days before the funeral mass held there. His brother, Senator Ted Kennedy, eulogized him with the words, "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."

Senator Kennedy concluded his eulogy, paraphrasing his deceased brother Robert by quoting George Bernard Shaw: "Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"

Immediately following the mass, Kennedy's body was transported by special train to Washington, D.C. Thousands of mourners lined the tracks and stations, paying their respects as the train passed by.

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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4vJxi9Kis

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[DesertRat]

1. I was 12 and remember it clearly

So tragic, and just 2 months after the tragic killing of Martin Luther King, Jr. too. It was a terrible time. :cry:

[NMDemDist2]

2. I saw him in his motorcade the day he died

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[Historic NY]

3. I watched him get shot on live TV.........I felt robbed again of a life

that could have made things different for many people. I've visted Bobby's grave many times and have often wondered what his life would have accomplished. Teddys words are burn into my brain.

[roguevalley]

4. I remember that and Malcolm X, MLK and JFK. The end of hope.

That train trip broke your heart. People standing along the way in ones and twos. Farmers and hard scrabble people coming out to say goodbye to their future, their hope and their champion.

[bobbolink]

5. Sadly, this same country would not support a Bobby Kennedy today.

How far we have fallen.

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