Aug 25 2009 photography by Lane Hartwell
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.
Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: 'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.'
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) speaking at his brother Robert F. Kennedy's funeral at Saint Patrick's Cathedral New York City June 8, 1968.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy dies after battle with cancer
The senior Senator from Massachusetts has died of brain cancer at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass. at the age of 77.
Aug 25 2009 photography by Lane Hartwell
- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) speaks at a campaign rally for presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Friday, Feb. 1, 2008 in Oakland, Calif. (Photographer/Lane Hartwell)
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.
Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: 'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.'
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) speaking at his brother Robert F. Kennedy's funeral at Saint Patrick's Cathedral New York City June 8, 1968.
- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) speaks at a campaign rally for presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Friday, Feb. 1, 2008 in Oakland, Calif. (Photographer/Lane Hartwell)
- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) speaks at a campaign rally for presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Friday, Feb. 1, 2008 in Oakland, Calif. (Photographer/Lane Hartwell)
Video Senator Edward M. Kennedy's speech responding to the Republican party attempts to block a minimum wage increase on the floor of the U.S. Senate Thursday, January 25, 2007.
