RIP - sen. edward kennedy

“An important chapter in our history has come to an end. Our country has lost a great leader, who picked up the torch of his fallen brothers and became the greatest United States Senator of our time,” Obama said.

And all of that is true and more he was not only the 3 longest severing senator in us history. he was a champion for human rights, and for a long time as a mass resident he was my senator. I remember as a child going to the Rehoboth fair and "uncle ted" was there and he was mingling with the crowd, Smiling, waving to people. That is something even at the age of 10 or 11 I have never forgotten!!

I got the txt of breaking news from msnbc at 1:36 am on 8/26/09. My phone was sitting next to my bed where i was sleeping. the text woke me up i rolled over clicked view read it, and immediately felt different inside. There are maybe a half dozen men in history that have done more for human rights the "uncle ted". even fewer that had the longevity. he began is public service career in 1962.
as MSNBC put it

For nearly a half-century in the Senate, Kennedy was a steadfast champion of the working class and the poor, a powerful voice on health care, civil rights, and war and peace. To the American public, though, he was best known as the last surviving son of America's most glamorous political family, the eulogist of a clan shattered again and again by tragedy.

With him loosing his sister just 2 weeks ago. Dare i speculate that was just to much to bare, May that not be the final straw.

And in his own sons words

"He has authored more pieces of major legislation than any other United States senator," Patrick Kennedy said. "He is the penultimate senator. I don't need to exaggerate when I talk about my father. That's the amazing thing. He breaks all the records himself." Also from the same msnbc article

and his dreams of a better future for Every one !!!

Kennedy sketched a dream of a better future as he laid to rest his brother Robert in 1968: "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."

god bless the Kennedy Klan and the United States of America,
sky w.