Goodbye Ted

Meant to put this up earlier. I watched most of Kennedy's funeral yesterday. It was very moving. If you missed it, here's a nice photo gallery of when his hearse stopped at the Capitol steps on the way to Arlington.

And in case you want to see it later, CSPAN has the archived footage of the memorial service on Friday and the funeral mass and burial service yesterday. I thought the letter Ted sent from the grave was brilliant. He made it very clear that his dying wish was to see universal health care coverage enacted. And the lightning storm that blew up, kind of out of nowhere, at the very end made for a dramatic finish. I'm thinking that storm was really Ted's spirit, saying his last goodbye. He was such a force of nature in life. It would make sense he would leave this earthly realm with a dramatic flourish. [graphic]

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