Farewell, Ted Kennedy
The last of the trio of Kennedy brothers who so occupied my childhood and teen-aged years, and the one who continually surprised me at the stances he took for most of us, has finally, gracefully, passed on.
I say finally because having known families where someone died of a brain tumor have a similar struggle, usually, to those with Alzheimer's ("The Long Good-bye").
There are probably a million people out there trying to express what he meant to them and how they judged his footprints in the world, so I'm not going to add my own, save to say -- "Teddy, even my Dad, a very harsh critic, thought you'd paid your penance and done right to make up for your stupid mistakes as a young man. And he didn't even get to see the last 12 years."
I say finally because having known families where someone died of a brain tumor have a similar struggle, usually, to those with Alzheimer's ("The Long Good-bye").
There are probably a million people out there trying to express what he meant to them and how they judged his footprints in the world, so I'm not going to add my own, save to say -- "Teddy, even my Dad, a very harsh critic, thought you'd paid your penance and done right to make up for your stupid mistakes as a young man. And he didn't even get to see the last 12 years."