Word: brothers
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...Kennedy Jr. - the oldest brother - was his ambitious father's namesake, and repository of all his hopes. On Aug. 12, 1944, he was sent on a secret mission so important that it was filmed in a tailing aircraft by the President's son, Colonel Elliott Roosevelt. But the plane he was flying, loaded with 23,000 lb. of an explosive twice as powerful as TNT, exploded in an immense fireball before Joe could bail out. (See a photo gallery of the Kennedy family's intimate moments...
...priests appeared at the door. Mother Rose was consumed by grief; Joe Sr. - a former ambassador to England - made all the funeral arrangements. "There is something about the firstborn that sets him a little apart," he wrote to one friend. "He represents our youth, its joys and problems." Younger brother Jack assembled a book of reminiscences, As We Remember Joe. The death was public, but in the pre-TV era, the mourning was blessedly private, as was the mourning for daughter Kathleen in a plane crash in France...
...Hyannis Port, where her daughter Eunice was buried last week. Rose's children and grandchildren complained of being coerced to accompany her. But the little church on the Cape provided comfort in the times of tragedy that seemed to visit the Kennedys like the seasons. After their eldest brother Joe died during World War II, John and his sister Kathleen - both of whom sometimes struggled with their faith - would go to St. Francis Xavier together to pray...
...sure it would do much good. In the early 1980s, after the failure of both his marriage and his challenge to take the Democratic presidential nomination from Jimmy Carter, Kennedy would often walk across the street from the Senate office buildings to St. Joseph's parish, where his brother Bobby also used to find solace in prayer. (See pictures of the Lion of the Senate...
...history of American Catholicism will no doubt highlight the fact that John Kennedy had to prove that he wasn't too Catholic in order to win the presidency in 1960, and 40 years later, his brother watched as Democrats like Kerry faced down charges that they weren't Catholic enough. "Abortion is the big issue, and John Kennedy never had to directly confront that," says Shaun Casey, author of The Making of a Catholic President. "We'll never really know how he might have handled that." (Read "How the Democrats Got Religion...