The Lion will roar no more...
Aug. 26th, 2009 05:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanEdward "Teddy" Kennedy, 1932 - 2009
Remove your hat and stand for his passing, ladies and gentlemen. Whatever you thought of the man, whatever you thought of his politics, a legend has left the Senate chambers. For nearly fifty years he represented his constituents with humanity and conviction, and gave us glimmers of the legacy that Might Have Been.
The lights are gone out in the castle on the hill. The lion is sleeping, now.
My only hope is that, in his memory, Washington will be able to pass health care reform that Teddy would have approved of...
Remove your hat and stand for his passing, ladies and gentlemen. Whatever you thought of the man, whatever you thought of his politics, a legend has left the Senate chambers. For nearly fifty years he represented his constituents with humanity and conviction, and gave us glimmers of the legacy that Might Have Been.
The lights are gone out in the castle on the hill. The lion is sleeping, now.
My only hope is that, in his memory, Washington will be able to pass health care reform that Teddy would have approved of...
