For Those Too Young To Remember, And Especially For Those That Do...

[WillyT]

RFK's funeral train.

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His body was returned to New York City, where he lay in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral for several days before the funeral mass held there. His brother, Senator Ted Kennedy, eulogized him with the words, "My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it."

Senator Kennedy concluded his eulogy, paraphrasing his deceased brother Robert by quoting George Bernard Shaw: "Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"

Immediately following the mass, Kennedy's body was transported by special train to Washington, D.C. Thousands of mourners lined the tracks and stations, paying their respects as the train passed by.

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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4vJxi9Kis

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[againes654]

1. K & R

Thank you!

[asjr]

2. I remember it well. I remember also

my grandfather taking me to the railroad station in our small East Tennessee town when the train carrying Franklin Roosevelt's body from Warm Springs came through very slowly. There were over 200 people there in honor of him. I was profoundly moved by the whole thing. I will never forget that. I was so surprised at the tears shed while the train was passing through. Some things are never forgotten.

[Blondiegrrl]

3. Thank you. That made me tear up a bit. n/t

[WillyT]

4. Kick !!!

For what it's worth.

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