OT: Touching eulogy

[Guest guest]

I think this eulogy can give us comfort in all we have endured and worked for

all these years. It home when I was listening to it today.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ekennedytributetorfk.html

A few words from the speech:

Ted Kennedy's speech when his brother Bobby died:

Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous

array of the world's ills. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought

and action, have flowed from the work of a single man.

These men moved the world, and so can we all. Few will have the greatness to

bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of

events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this

generation. *It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human

history is shaped.* Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve

the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny

ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of

energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the

mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their

colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than

bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital

quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to

change. And I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter

the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the

globe.

My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in

life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried

to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

[Guest guest]

That's a great speech. Maybe the insurance company trolls will read it and

decide to tell the truth. Until that happens, the rest of us on Sickbuildings

will continue our efforts to spread the truth.

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From: ldelp84227 <ldelp84227@...>

Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:00:26 PM

Subject: [] OT: Touching eulogy

I think this eulogy can give us comfort in all we have endured and worked for

all these years. It home when I was listening to it today.

http://www.american rhetoric. com/speeches/ ekennedytributet orfk.html

A few words from the speech:

Ted Kennedy's speech when his brother Bobby died:

Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous

array of the world's ills. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought

and action, have flowed from the work of a single man.

These men moved the world, and so can we all. Few will have the greatness to

bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of

events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this

generation. *It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human

history is shaped.* Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve

the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny

ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of

energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the

mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their

colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than

bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital

quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to

change. And I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter

the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the

globe.

My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in

life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried

to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

[Guest guest]

That was beautiful. Very inspiring. That is exactly what we are all trying to

do " Some people believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the

enormous array of the world's ills. Yet many of the world's great movements, of

thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. "

That is exactly what each and everyone of us are doing working on this issue.

We have already maded a difference and we will continue to do so because we

believe great harm is being caused to human beings that can and has to be

stopped. Each and every one of us, in our own way large or small, has made a

difference and I want us to remember that Senator Kennedy will always be tied to

this issue and to us by helping us when so many others did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Mulvey son

>

> I think this eulogy can give us comfort in all we have endured and worked for

all these years. It home when I was listening to it today.

>

> http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ekennedytributetorfk.html

>

> A few words from the speech:

>

> Ted Kennedy's speech when his brother Bobby died:

>

> Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous

array of the world's ills. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought

and action, have flowed from the work of a single man.

>

> These men moved the world, and so can we all. Few will have the greatness to

bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of

events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this

generation. *It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human

history is shaped.* Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve

the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny

ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of

energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the

mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

>

> Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of

their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity

than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital

quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to

change. And I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter

the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the

globe.

>

> My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in

life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried

to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

>