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A sad loss, to lose the 'last' of the Kennedy Clan from a strong and interesting era in American politics which shaped the 'age' of 'Kennedyism'. This era encompassed to my mind civil rights, riots, the space race, the ich bien ein berliner speech (I am a sausage), cuban crisis, bay of pigs, vietnam war, assassination of both brothers, Martin Luther King the list goes on .......
I suppose it shaped my pre-teen years by taking in such a lot of foreign and civil news from such an interesting era. As Bern says he was pro-irish not Noraid/IRA, I suppose it depended on what papers/media you read or listened to, I made a point of reading the american/irish/english and other european papers to glean what other nations were saying about Edward Kennedy at that fragile time in our history. Senator Edward Kennedy R.I.P.
