The Death of A Liberal

When I young, late 60's and early 70's before high school, I was a Kennedy child - by that I mean that as my family did - my mother that is (dad wasn't around that much) - I worshiped the Kennedys. In 1968 a couple of weeks before he was assassinated, Robert (Bobby) Kennedy made a whistle stop in our tiny town of Harrisburg Oregon. He gave a speech from the caboose balcony and then headed south to his death. I remember when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, though I was not quite 6 years old, because I remember my mother being quite distraught and crying. I remember how upset we were when news broke that Ted Kennedy had driven his car into a river and let a young woman die - how could this happen to a Kennedy? We hoped that it was not true - there had to be mitigating circumstances. Just over a year after his brother had died Ted Kennedy killed Mary Jo Kopechne, he let her drown. Now 40 years later the great liberal icon has died - not a horrible death, but a death from a brain tumor. It hard to speak ill of the dead, so I won't in this post. I hope that our Father in Heaven can forgive Kennedy for his lifetime of sins and at worst ban him to limbo. Ted Kennedy was not a repentent man. Rest in Peace Mr. Kennedy.