Hey Ted? Tell Jack and Bobby how much we've missed them over the years,

and how convinced we are that had their tragic deaths not happened, what a better world we'd all be living in right now.

Will you tell them that for us? Will you please tell them that their vision is now ours, and that we'll not let their deaths be in vain? Tell them that we're fighting their fight even today.

Go in Peace My Friend. Go tell those Kennedys who passed before you how hard you fought for us, and how much we appreciate it. Tell them how much this country loves the Kennedys. Tell them how lucky we are to have been blessed with their presence. Tell them we'll never let them or their love for this country and all it promised be forgotten, and how forlorn we are that you all have passed without being able to see what this country COULD have become, had circumstances not barred you from fostering that possibility. Tell them Ted. Tell them for US.

God Bless You, and God Bless Your Family.

The best we can do, and the best way we can honor you and those in your family who've fought for what's right, is to keep up that fight. Tell Jack and Bobby especially that we won't let that torch be extinguished. Tell them we'll keep it lit in our hearts. Tell them how much they inspired us, and how much their memory inspires us to this very day. Tell them that their memories will live on in our childrens' hearts, because we will make it so.

We'll keep working, and someday we'll prevail. Someday Ted, we'll make this the country that You, Jack, and Bobby envisioned it could be. We won't stop. We PROMISE.

We PROMISE you that Ted.

Vaya con Dios.

P.S. I'd ask you to kick tricky dick for me, and to give ronny raygun nuggies until his scalp bleeds, but I've believed for a long time what you now know for sure: they're both burning in hell.

:yourock:

they were my inspiration for getting in politics and they died before I was born.

the tears are making it hard to have a decent response

yes, yes, yes. I lived through both assassinations -- Nov 22, 1963 was a terrible day for a small girl who barely understood death. I was a little older when Bobby was killed, but still pretty young. Those events helped shape who I became as an adult. But Teddy, he was always there. All through my life. It's not unlike losing an uncle.

Thank you for writing this.

Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
You know, I just looked around and he's gone.

Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
I just looked around and he's gone.

Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
I just looked 'round and he's gone.

Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, and it's a-gonna be one day ...

Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walk up over the hill,
With Abraham, Martin and John.

Anybody here seen my old friend Teddy?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
Please tell him he is late to the game.
With Bobby, Joe, and John.