I was moved to tears today when I watched Teddy Kennedy, Jr. eulogize his father . . . not once but twice, because I saw it again on MSNBC.
Speaking of his own bout of cancer, one that caused his leg to be amputated, Teddy Jr. said:
No matter what you thought about Ted Kennedy, it has been obvious throughout this weekend of remembrance and honor, that Teddy was there for his children and he was there for John Kennedy's children and Bobby Kennedy's children.
As a father, he seems bigger than life to me. What better gift for a parent to give his or her children than to impart those huge lessons: "You can do anything that you want to do, be anything that you want to be. Have faith and courage and tenacity . . ." And as Teddy, Jr. quoted his father: "The work goes on; the cause endures; the hope still lives; and the dream shall never die."
"At age 12 losing your leg pretty much seems like the end of the world . . . My father taught me that even our most profound losses are survivable. It is what we do with that loss -- our ability to transform it into a positive event -- that is one of my father's greatest lessons. He taught me that nothing is impossible."
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