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...service was to be held in a church that had already heard a great many of the senator's prayers. The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, known as the Mission Church, is one of the biggest in Boston, though by no means the fanciest. This is the church where people come for healing; it was known for so many miracles it was called "the Home of Wonders," the Boston Globe explained, its chapel flanked by bouquets of crutches and braces that mark the healings. When Kennedy's daughter Kara was being treated for lung cancer at the Dana...
...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...
...Thus the weight of two unrealized lives dropped onto Robert's shoulders. He added a deeper dimension: a mission of compassion to go along with the steel and the wit and the will to win. And then, with a gunshot in a Los Angeles hotel, everything fell to Ted - the youngest, the mama's boy, the slipstreamer...
Kennedy was only 12 years old when his eldest brother, Joseph Jr., died during a World War II bombing mission. By the age of 36, Teddy, as his family called him, had lost three more siblings, including his two remaining brothers, Jack and Bobby, who were killed at the hands of assassins. In 1964, a plane Kennedy was taking to a campaign event crashed into an apple orchard in western Massachusetts. The pilot died, as did Ed Moss, a Kennedy aide. The Senator, then just 32, faced months of recuperation from a serious back injury...
Kennedy also relied on his faith as he watched his two eldest children struggle with cancer. While his daughter Kara was undergoing treatment at a nearby hospital in the Mission Hill section of Boston, Kennedy used to stop for prayer at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica, the church where his funeral will take place on Saturday, Aug. 29. The amount of time her youngest child spent in churches would have surprised and gratified Rose Kennedy. In 1995, Teddy spoke of her legacy, "She sustained us in the saddest times by her faith in God, which was the greatest gift...