Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy - February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009
Ted Kennedy died yesterday, succumbing to the brain cancer that had troubled him for the past year. He was the last living connection to the Kennedy dynasty and a constant reminder in the Senate to what might have if his brothers hadn't have been shot down in their prime. Regardless of how you feel about his politics you can't deny that he was a champion for the poor, civil rights, and the working class. Perhaps his life can be summed up best with his own words at his brother Robert's graveside:
"...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."
Rest in Peace and may you join your brothers in heaven.
And to tie this in with music, here's Sen. Orrin Hatch's song written as a eulogy:
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