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...Kennedy Jr., the oldest of nine children, was the first to die - at 29 - when the plane he was flying on a World War II mission exploded over England...
...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...
...secretly had his oldest daughter, Rosemary, lobotomized in 1941. Her retardation was a blemish that he thought he might carve away. But for the public, the shadow first fell in 1944, when the oldest, and perhaps the most promising, of the Kennedys, Joe Jr., volunteered for a dangerous combat mission in an experimental flying bomb. The plane exploded before he could bail out. (See TIME's complete Ted Kennedy coverage...
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...