moosie 12:37 AM 08-26-2009
Senator Kennedy dead at 77.
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SmokeyJoe 02:14 AM 08-26-2009
I did not agree with him on many points, if any, but I hate to see cancer claim anyone.
May his family be comforted.
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Ahbroody 02:38 AM 08-26-2009
Agreed Joe,didnt agree with his views, but regardless its a horrible thing to go through.
My father is currently winning the fight, but it is definetly the ugliest word in our language. To have experinced the ups and downs I would never wish it on anyone.
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Bruins Fan 03:25 AM 08-26-2009
The country has lost a great man, a true champion of the people.
He will be missed in his home state.
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taltos 04:40 AM 08-26-2009
massphatness 06:36 AM 08-26-2009
The Kennedy family has had it rough these past few weeks. Prayers for them to be sure.
I think I'll dig a hole and bury myself with cigars for the next 10 days or so until the Ted Kennedy love fest and sainthood cannonization process winds down.
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blugill 06:40 AM 08-26-2009
Originally Posted by massphatness:
The Kennedy family has had it rough these past few weeks. Prayers for them to be sure.
I think I'll dig a hole and bury myself with cigars for the next 10 days or so until the Ted Kennedy love fest and sainthood cannonization process winds down.
:-)
It'll be wall to wall coverage that will rival Michael Jackson's.
Rest in Peace Mr. Kennedy. I never agreed on any of your views but I'd never wish cancer on anyone. It's claimed many of my family members too.
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ratpack 07:00 AM 08-26-2009
It is sad and an aweful death to die of brain cancer. I have seen it first hand. You have to admit though, the Kennedy family has been cursed. It's crazy.
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Originally Posted by blugill:
:-)
It'll be wall to wall coverage that will rival Michael Jackson's.
Rest in Peace Mr. Kennedy. I never agreed on any of your views but I'd never wish cancer on anyone. It's claimed many of my family members too.
Maybe they will stop talkking about Michael for a while.
:-)
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DougBushBC 08:21 AM 08-26-2009
On this day I send my prayers out for the Kopechne family. The sainthood of Ted Kennedy will all but completely ignore their poor daughter.
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elderboy02 08:27 AM 08-26-2009
Originally Posted by DougBushBC:
On this day I send my prayers out for the Kopechne family. The sainthood of Ted Kennedy will all but completely ignore their poor daughter.
:-)
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Wanger 08:30 AM 08-26-2009
He was not a saint, but he did serve the country for MANY years. For that I thank him. He saw lots of personal tragedy within his family over the years, and made it through, though he wasn't unscathed.
Having lost my mother to cancer, I feel horrible when I hear of or see someone that is going through it or has lost their battle with it.
May he find the peace in death that he didn't seem to find in life.
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Doctorossi 08:38 AM 08-26-2009
Originally Posted by SmokeyJoe:
I did not agree with him on many points, if any, but I hate to see cancer claim anyone.
May his family be comforted.
Have to second Joe. RIP.
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SeanGAR 09:48 AM 08-26-2009
1 vs 4334 ... you wonder what reality some people live in.
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icantbejon 09:53 AM 08-26-2009
Originally Posted by SeanGAR:
1 vs 4334 ... you wonder what reality some people live in.
??
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csbrewfisher 10:19 AM 08-26-2009
I wanted few things more than Mr. Kennedy out of the senate, but not through a horrible death. Tender mercies to his family.
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Tenor CS 10:19 AM 08-26-2009
Originally Posted by SeanGAR:
1 vs 4334 ... you wonder what reality some people live in.
I don't get it either.
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Darrell 10:26 AM 08-26-2009
I was not a Ted Kennedy fan, at all. With that said, my heart still goes out to his family for their loss.
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tzaddi 10:33 AM 08-26-2009
As a flawed individual myself I honor his service to country and find inspiration in his devotion to family.
I went to the polls for the first time when I was 18.
My older brother could not vote when he was 18.
Originally Posted by :
Senator Kennedy was a long proponent of the 18 year old's right to vote. He demonstrated his support in his testimony in front of the Subcommittee for Lowering the Voting Age to 18. During his testimony he stated: "Long ago, according to historians, the age of maturity was fixed at 21, because that was the age at which a young man was thought to be capable of bearing armor. Strange as it may seem, the weight of armor in the 11th century governs the right to vote of Americans in the 20th century." Senator Kennedy continued to support this initiative until it was realized with the signing of the Twenty-sixth Amendment on July 5, 1971.
This legislation made the lyric from the 1965 Barry McGuire song "Eve of Destruction" outdated.
Originally Posted by :
The eastern world, it is exploding
Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’
You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’
You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’
And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin’
That third line expressed the inequity of a time when men and women under the age of 21 serving our country did not have a voice on election day.
"…the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
May God's blessings be upon us all.
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