Late last night, Ted Kennedy,, one of the greatest U.S. Senators in American History, died after a yearlong struggle with cancer. There is a strange irony that the other two Kennedy brothers died from an assassin's bullet but the youngest died from cancer.
Pres. Obama released a statement calling Sen. Kennedy the greatest senator of all time, and he certainly has a strong argument. Teddy helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act. Sen. Kennedy's personal life was plagued by tragedy, two of his brothers were murdered, another brother and sister died in a plane crash, one of his sisters was born with mild mental retardation but was but in a mental hospital after a lobotomy went wrong, another of his sisters was killed in a plain crash. One of his sons lost a leg to cancer, and his daughter also survived cancer.
He lost his 1980 presidential campaign because he fled the scene of an accident while a woman who was in the car died. He claimed that he tried several times to save the woman, who was in the car that was in a river, before being forced to return to land. He asked for help from some friends, but he did not contact the police.
When we look back at Mr. Kennedy's career we will not remember the faults in his character, but as one of the greatest American politicians of all time. Rest in Peace and God Bless You Senator Kennedy, we will miss you.
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...a great loss for the people of his state and the entire country. He was a voice who spoke for those who could not.
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