Liam Neeson opens up about grief, America & Ted Kennedy

Lorax7844

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:48 PM
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Liam Neeson opens up about grief, America & Ted Kennedy

http://www.celebitchy.com/67553/liam_neeson_opens_up_about_grief_america_ted_kennedy/

Neeson also acknowledged the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy, whom the actor first met when he was 10 years old during a visit to the Kennedy ancestral Irish homestead. Kennedy was one of those who contacted him following the March death of Richardson, 45.

�I met him a couple of times over the years, and he wrote my family a very, very beautiful touching condolence letter when Natasha died,� said Neeson. �He was a special man. It is the end of an era.�

Neeson, who is appearing in the new film Five Minutes of Heaven, says he�s been moved by the letters from so many Americans. � is partly the reason that I have recently become an American citizen,� says the star who was born in Northern Ireland. �America has been very, very good to me. I am still a proud Irishman � but I have become an American citizen, and am very proud of that.�

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MichiganVote

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:49 PM
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1. Neeson is the genuine article, a real human being.

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CTyankee

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:53 PM
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2. Nice, and I love him but he is very rich and can afford to live here without public health care.

And that is fine. I hope at some point he makes that distinction but of course he is still in mourning for his wife and that is as it should be.

That said, I feel very sad for him. When I saw him briefly on GMA he looked absolutely distraught. What a terrible, terrible tragedy to afflict anyone...

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ChiGal

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:54 PM
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3. Neeson

is a class act.

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Laelth

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Wed Aug-26-09 07:14 PM
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5. Welcome to DU.

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-Laelth

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MinM

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Wed Aug-26-09 07:03 PM
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4. A Kennedy's Journey Home (Ireland - 06/26/63)(audio)

Edited on Wed Aug-26-09 07:05 PM by MinM

NPR: Here and Now: A Kennedy's Journey Home

Story aired: Friday, December 29, 2006

The Kennedy Library launched this year a new exhibit commemorating President John F. Kennedy's journey home to Ireland in 1963.

After President Kennedy's historic speech at the Berlin Wall on June 26, 1963, he made a trip to Dublin, the land his great grandparents fled during the potato famine in the 19th century.

The exhibit, "A Journey Home," highlights this personal time for the president. And now, newly de-classified documents reveal that Kennedy was the object of death threats during that trip to Ireland.

http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/storage/2006/12/hereandnow_1229.rm?start=34:29

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=148855&mesg_id=151013

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bigwillq

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Wed Aug-26-09 07:15 PM
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6. Neeson seems like a very nice guy

I've felt this way about him for a very long time.

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