Think about how awful it must be to lose 2 of your brothers to an assassin's bullet

Think about how awful it would be to lose all of your brothers prematurely. I can empathize with how Senator Kennedy was feeling in 1969, I have 3 brothers and would be devastated to lose them all.

*cough*Dubya*cough* he dedicated his life to helping every American. I was just thinking about his dire circumstances.

One time, at the country club, his frat brother got vomitous on his new loafers.

posted so many nice threads, now this? :eyes:

not people here but people elsewhere.

About how after the death of all three of his brothers he had a rough spot that EVERYONE should be able to empathize with, and how they would be shouting that shit from the roof tops if it had been a repub.

Not only did he overcome that, he helped everyone.

I wasn't kidding though, I have three brothers and if all three of them were killed I would be drunk as a skunk, that is the only way I would be able to deal with it.

there that is where I was going with that, glad I changed it.

Yeah, yeah, Rosemary wasn't killed; she just had her personality cut out of her brain.

man, that makes me so sad.

Alcoholism is a badass disease. I think he must've had a very spiritual side for it to not kneecap him 100%.

Please no A.A. posts about the need for submitting to a higher power to kick the bottle.

Many, many ex junkies and ex alcoholics I know that shoot up with Jesus instead become conservative pricks.

It's like a backdoor clause to moral superiority for them. "I found Jesus while stoned out of my mind selling my liver for coke money, but you with all your blessings couldn't. Ergo I must be better than you"


Kennedy shook the booze but always stayed true to the people. In fact in many ways he was the greatest of the three Kennedy brothers.

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He's a better person than I. I don't think I'd ever recover.

:hi:

:)

:D

...on top of everything else, and the truth lay festering and unspoken, for the rest of your life...

this was what I was trying to say.

Honestly though, I would need sedation to deal with losing all of my brothers.

and that is something I can't comprehend.

Losing your eldest brother in war due to his airplane exploding in mid-air.

Losing your eldest sister first to organic mental illness and then to a botched lobotomy.

Losing your father to a stroke where he can no longer communicate with you years before he actually dies.

Losing your nephew to an airplane accident.

Losing your sister-in-law to cancer.

Almost losing your son to bone cancer.

Almost losing your life in an airplane accident and then a car accident, leaving you to survive while another perished.

The man is truly amazing that he could overcome a personal history of those tragedies and rise above it all to be a hero for The People. I've always believed that it isn't so much what you do as much what you do in spite of your challenges. RIP Senator Kennedy.