I have always have had a fascination with the Kennedy’s. I don’t know why or where it began. It probably was about the time that Caroline Kennedy got married and was in the Life magazine or it could just be that my fascination of the the 1960’s lead to my love and respect for the Kennedy’s and what they have been doing and trying to do for years. I remember wanting to get the special Life Magazine that covered the 25th anniversary of President John F. . Kennedy’s death. I got it and later used it to write my senior paper on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The campaign and death of Robert Kennedy has also been of great interest to me as well.
Well, yesterday another one of the Kennedy brothers died Senator Ted Kennedy, who was the last older male in the Kennedy line. With his passing we have see a death of a dynasty in the senate. For 50 years they have always has been a Kennedy in the senate. Today that is no longer true. It pains me to know that people who really fought for civil rights for many backgrounds, helped with politics and issues in foreign lands, and tried numerous times to get some sort of better health care for us all has died.
I think one of the best things I ever saw the Kennedy family do was when Robert Kennedy visited the poor during his campaign for presidency. He really got to the heart of the issue and if an assaians bullet had not stopped him who knows what kind of country we would have now.
Ted Kennedy, despite his flaws, tried to make the world a better place. He went out of his way to provide medical care for a very sick girl in another country, he endorsed Obama, fought for health care,tried to get better living conditions for the lower class and I think in his passing we have lost a bright spot in our country’s history. Someone that actually really did care about the people.
Hopefully his legacy will live on in the next generation of people. We have Obama and many democratic and Republican senators that will hopefully join together and try to get some things done that Senator Kennedy will be proud of.
RIP Senator Ted Kennedy. You will be missed.
