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Originally Posted by Nanners52674
I thought that memorial service was just fantastic. It was so nice to see a celebration of an amazing life and hear such honest human stories from people whose public lives often lead one to forget their side as a parent, friend, loved one.
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I completely agree. My mom and I watched the service and at the end I did have tears in my eyes. I'm not going to claim I know really anything about the Kennedy family, except the obvious things that you learn in History class. But watching the eulogies given by Patrick and by President Obama (we changed the channel while Patrick was talking, so we didn't see anything before that) I learned a great deal more than I knew about Sen. Kennedy's life.
What I did not like, nor appreciated was from my friends yesterday after we left our youth group. We assumed that the church had their flag @ half-staff due to Sen. Kennedy and the 1st thing out of my friends' mouths were "
....and the Republicans breathed a sigh of relief." Seriously? Yes Kennedy was a liberal, yes he lived a flawed life (seriously, who hasn't?), but he deserves more respect than that.