Share Your Memories and Sympathies for Sen. Ted Kennedy at this link:

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Share Your Memories and Sympathies ~

Go to the link below to use the form to submit your memories of Senator Kennedy and your sympathies with his family. Selected messages will be added to the 'tributes' section of TedKennedy.org.

http://tedkennedy.org/sites/tedkennedy/index.php/pages/share_memories

Did you ever have a photo taken with Senator Kennedy? If so and you're willing to share it with the Kennedy family, please click here to upload it http://tedkennedy.org/pages/share_photos

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This was sent out in an email today from Howard Dean, M.D.:


We will miss Senator Ted Kennedy as a nation, and I will miss him as a human being.

Over the next few months, as we debate his life's passion, which was Universal Healthcare, we will feel his presence everywhere. He will be in the Senate Chamber, in the committee rooms, in the White House, and in the minds of most of the reporters old enough to have witnessed the trajectory of this extraordinary generation of America's First Family from it's beginning.

Much has been written about Ted Kennedy already. He was indeed extraordinary. My mother, who was a solid Upper East Side Republican until 2004, once happened to sit next to him at a wedding of a mutual friend. She had never met him before. I'm sure the exchange was lively, and being a Dean, I doubt my mother gave him much quarter. A week later, a beautiful, kind, and very personal handwritten letter arrived from Ted Kennedy. My mother, like so many other Americans, was hooked by the Kennedy charm and grace.

Ted Kennedy was a man with a long career of determination as well as charm. When President Obama signs a healthcare reform bill late this year, Ted Kennedy may not be standing there next to him, but his presence will be deeply apparent in the Oval Office as the President's pen moves across the page.

-Howard

Governor Howard Dean, M.D.
Founder, Democracy for America

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1. This is a great idea, and many of the DUers who have posted kind comments about Kennedy can have

them put there. I will do one.

Thanks!


and hats off to Howard Dean's continued bravery being one of the biggest faces of getting the Public Option, even if we're not going to get Single Payer. He's certainly not liked by the multi-billion dollars corporations - that's not something most would want to be, but he remains tough!

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3. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this. I thought it would get more attention.

Guess everyone must have known about it. K&R

:fistbump:

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2. here's what I wrote to his family ---

Yes, we're all weeping, and I cannot imagine the sadness his family must feel right now. But, we must remember to rejoice in Teddy's accomplishments for the poor, elderly, children, working class, GLBT, and women - and still - because the fight is not over - never stop the fight for equality for all.

We must continue to represent the classiness that epitomized Senator Kennedy, in our work and daily living, and on behalf of those around us who are in need.

Do not be afraid, do not back down, and do not forget if you and I don't fight for rights, then who will? Teddy represented Christ-like behavior better than most any person who has held office in the Senate - his family is greatly honored by this fact - and our country is the better for his tenure!

Rest in Peace, great and honorable Senator...