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Lorax7844 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 07:17 AM
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Video: Teddy's eulogy for his brother Bobby
Edited on Wed Aug-26-09 07:18 AM by Lorax7844
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9JTYnMpRyg

"Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

This is the way he lived. 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."
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 07:28 AM
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1. Words as meaningful today as they were then. I'm sobbing out loud.
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Lorax7844 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 08:12 AM
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2. Good one huh, yes the waterworks come on with me too
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