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...first time I met Senator Kennedy," the father of the dead soldier said. "He was right there behind us. I asked him if he could meet with me later to talk about how and why our son died - because he did not have the proper equipment to fight a war. He was in a vehicle that was not armored...
...Onward through the riffling pages of the century's calendar: Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, McCarthyism, civil rights, the space age, Vietnam. Scarcely a tide flowed through history without the Kennedys somewhere on its back, gliding downwind or beating against it. And yet reality wasn't enough - first for them, then for the rest of us. If their story is raw material for an American Shakespeare, then you might say unappeasable hunger was the fatal flaw. (See pictures of the lion of the senate, Ted Kennedy...
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...
...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...
...take place anywhere near the public eye. It is very likely that more troops will be sent - to build and train the Afghan security forces, it will be said. Obama's problems on the left will be mitigated by the fact that most Democrats have also supported this war - as opposed to Iraq's - and have little desire to reverse themselves. They don't want to hurt the President, and they don't want to be perceived as weak on defense come election time...