今天 (8/29/2009) 是 Ted Kennedy (1932-2009.8.25, 77歲, 照片中最右側.) 追思會(葬禮), 三大電視網全程轉播.
美國現任及前幾任的總統們都在座全程參與, 其中有一段是Jr. Ted Kennedy (他的兒子) 的追悼詞講的非常好.
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Ted Kennedy Jr. remembers his father
美國現任及前幾任的總統們都在座全程參與, 其中有一段是Jr. Ted Kennedy (他的兒子) 的追悼詞講的非常好.
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Ted Kennedy Jr. remembers his father
小泰迪12歲的故事:
When I was 12 years old I was diagnosed with bone cancer and a few months after I lost my leg, there was a heavy snowfall over my childhood home outside of Washington D.C. My father went to the garage to get the old Flexible Flyer and asked me if I wanted to go sledding down the steep driveway. And I was trying to get used to my new artificial leg and the hill was covered with ice and snow and it wasn't easy for me to walk. And the hill was very slick and as I struggled to walk, I slipped and I fell on the ice and I started to cry and I said "I can't do this." I said, "I'll never be able to climb that hill." And he lifted me in his strong, gentle arms and said something I'll never forget. He said "I know you'll do it, there is nothing you can't do. We're going to climb that hill together, even if it takes us all day."
"Sure enough, he held me around my waist and we slowly made it to the top, and, you know, at age 12 losing a leg pretty much seems like the end of the world, but as I climbed onto his back and we flew down the hill that day I knew he was right. I knew I was going to be OK. You see, my father taught me that even our most profound losses are survivable and 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.
贏的故事:
During the summer months when I was growing up, my father would arrive late in the afternoon from Washington on Fridays and as soon as he got to Cape Cod, he would want to go straight out and practice sailing maneuvers . . . in anticipation of that weekend's races.
And we'd be out late, and the sun would be setting, and family dinner would be getting cold, and we still be out there practicing our jibes and spinnaker sets long after everyone else had gone ashore. Well one night, not another boat in sight on the summer sea, I asked him, "Why are we always the last ones on the water?" Teddy, he said, "Well, you see, most of the other sailors we race against are smarter and more talented than we are. But the reason why we are going to win is that we are going to work harder than them and we will be better prepared."
要知道未來怎麼做, 最好先要了解過去.
He believed that in order to know what to do in the future, you had to understand the past.
看到別人看不到的.
I once told him that he accidentally left some money, I remember this when I was a little kid, on the sink in our hotel room. And he replied "Teddy, let me tell you something. Making beds all day is back breaking work. The woman who has to clean up after us today has a family to feed."
夢想永遠不死
"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Ref: Kennedy Family
So called the Kennedy curse:
the John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 U.S. 35th presdient, assassination
the Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) assassination on his presidiential campaign.
four aircraft crashes (Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Kathleen Kennedy, Edward "Ted" M. Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy, Jr.)
a fatal skiing accident (Michael LeMoyne Kennedy)
a fatal drug overdose (David Anthony Kennedy)
a failed prefrontal lobotomy on Rose Marie Kennedy, carried out in the hope of calming the young woman's violent outbursts but resulting in more severe mental retardation
When I was 12 years old I was diagnosed with bone cancer and a few months after I lost my leg, there was a heavy snowfall over my childhood home outside of Washington D.C. My father went to the garage to get the old Flexible Flyer and asked me if I wanted to go sledding down the steep driveway. And I was trying to get used to my new artificial leg and the hill was covered with ice and snow and it wasn't easy for me to walk. And the hill was very slick and as I struggled to walk, I slipped and I fell on the ice and I started to cry and I said "I can't do this." I said, "I'll never be able to climb that hill." And he lifted me in his strong, gentle arms and said something I'll never forget. He said "I know you'll do it, there is nothing you can't do. We're going to climb that hill together, even if it takes us all day."
"Sure enough, he held me around my waist and we slowly made it to the top, and, you know, at age 12 losing a leg pretty much seems like the end of the world, but as I climbed onto his back and we flew down the hill that day I knew he was right. I knew I was going to be OK. You see, my father taught me that even our most profound losses are survivable and 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.
贏的故事:
During the summer months when I was growing up, my father would arrive late in the afternoon from Washington on Fridays and as soon as he got to Cape Cod, he would want to go straight out and practice sailing maneuvers . . . in anticipation of that weekend's races.
And we'd be out late, and the sun would be setting, and family dinner would be getting cold, and we still be out there practicing our jibes and spinnaker sets long after everyone else had gone ashore. Well one night, not another boat in sight on the summer sea, I asked him, "Why are we always the last ones on the water?" Teddy, he said, "Well, you see, most of the other sailors we race against are smarter and more talented than we are. But the reason why we are going to win is that we are going to work harder than them and we will be better prepared."
要知道未來怎麼做, 最好先要了解過去.
He believed that in order to know what to do in the future, you had to understand the past.
看到別人看不到的.
I once told him that he accidentally left some money, I remember this when I was a little kid, on the sink in our hotel room. And he replied "Teddy, let me tell you something. Making beds all day is back breaking work. The woman who has to clean up after us today has a family to feed."
夢想永遠不死
"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Ref: Kennedy Family
So called the Kennedy curse:
the John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 U.S. 35th presdient, assassination
the Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) assassination on his presidiential campaign.
four aircraft crashes (Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Kathleen Kennedy, Edward "Ted" M. Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy, Jr.)
a fatal skiing accident (Michael LeMoyne Kennedy)
a fatal drug overdose (David Anthony Kennedy)
a failed prefrontal lobotomy on Rose Marie Kennedy, carried out in the hope of calming the young woman's violent outbursts but resulting in more severe mental retardation
- A great documentary about Kennedys in PBS video program. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/kennedys/
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