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I always cry at the end...

posted 13 years ago by leek-16
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When the voice over of Bobby's inspirational speech starts and there's chaos everywhere and you really listen to his speech..It's about being kind to one another..that we are all here but for a brief glimpse of time.. but that time we've been given should be used to unite and not divide, rich vs poor, black vs white. How we are all aliens to one another living in the same cities. Violence solves nothing..... All I can think is "they(he- Sirhan Sirhan) killed hope" and I just cry like a baby for the last 10 minutes because that speech really touches me. He was going to be a great president who united a country..he was the hope and the change people needed then and people need now.

Ted Kennedy summed it up beautifully in his eulogy:

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. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: 'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.'

[–] baidoasomalia 11 years ago

I started crying when he left the stage and made his way into the kitchen. We all know what's going to happen, so it's a very tense experience indeed. It is easy to fall into the temptation of idolizing the dead. But one can't help but wonder how things would have worked out had he been elected. Would the US withdrawn from Viet Nam earlier? Watergate obviously wouldn't have happened, but would some other earth shattering scandal occurred? Would RFK made the same overtures to China that Nixon did?