Tomorrow would have been RFK's 80th birthday.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

[Corgigal]

1. well that's depressing

to think what might have been.

[Lex]

3. *deep sigh*

:cry:

[FreedomAngel82]

8. I always wonder

But than I also wonder if we would've had other great president's such as Clinton.

[...of J.Temperance]

2. It's shocking to think

Of RFK being 80 years-old and JFK being 88 years-old, because people still think of them in youngish terms.

You can't really get your head around 80 years-old and 88 years-old.

[Lex]

5. How old is Pres. Carter--he's still sharp.

And kicking Bush in the nuts a little bit here and there.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Oh yes!

He is. It's amazing. Isn't he eighty or in his late seventies? He still amazes me with his knowledge. I saw him on Larry King last week and he was on fire. Same with the other shows he was on.

[Lex]

13. Carter was born in 1924, so he's 81.

And kicking ass.

I'd like to think RFK would've been too.

[...of J.Temperance]

20. Well yes, but I was

More meaning the imagery dear boy. That you can't really visualize RFK and JFK as being 80 and 88 respectively.

Jaysus, my Grandmother's 86 years-old and she'd soon kicked Junior in the nuts.

[bleedingheart]

4. so sad....so much potential and all lost ...

one of my prized possessions is an original handbill from his campaign for the presidency...and an original bumpersticker!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

6. Bleeding heart, that's cool!

I was born two years after he was killed. Although I wasn't around when he was, I find him to be very inspiring.

I think he would have been a great president.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. That is a prized posession!!

Treasure that forever!!

[bleedingheart]

22. I actually had two sets but auctioned one off for a local

democratic charity...

the handbill and bumpersticker brought in over $300 which to be honest is probably more than they were worth but the so inspired people that they brought a great amount of money...

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Bless his soul

:cry: I'm only twenty-three but I just have this fascination with the Kennedy's. Dunno why I feel so connected but I have always loved him, John and Ted. :( For whatever purpose I get real protective whenever one of these rightwing jerks bash Teddy.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

11. It pisses me off when people bash Ted, too.

[stillcool]

12. Ouch...

i remember,..especially the train...:cry:

[Davis_X_Machina]

14. The train lives on here...

...in extraordinary pictures.

[stillcool]

15. Those are awesome..... n/t

[Davis_X_Machina]

16. Aw, hell, let's try...

...and sell a few copies of Mr. Fusco's book.



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.

Those of us who loved him
and who take him to his rest today,
pray that what he was to us
and what he wished for others
will some day come to pass for all the world.

As he said many times,
in many parts of this nation,
to those he touched
and who sought to touch him:

"Some men see things as they are and say why.
I dream things that never were and say why not."

[EFerrari]

17. "There's a great spirit gone." -- Antony and Cleopatra n/t

[Davis_X_Machina]

18. RFK in South Africa, 1966

Each time a man stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice,
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other
from a million different centers of energy and daring,
those ripples build a current
that can sweep down the mightiest walls
of oppression and resistance.

May his memory be for us a blessing -- zichrono l'vracha.

[stillcool]

19. ....and this....

On page 803 of his biography of RFK Sr, Arthur Schlesinger Jr quotes Kennedy in South Africa (in what A.S. calls RFK's most eloquent passage):

"(Let no one be discouraged by) the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence .... Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

[shance]

21. Thank you for posting and the reminder Scrub. An amazing leader.

n/t