…MAY TURKIES PAUSE AT THE LOSS OF A LONG TIME FRIEND AND ALLY. His relentless life long quests for equal justice, worker’s rights, an unflinching and uncompromised support of Gay rights, and affordable health care – left all of us either knowing about, or benefiting from, legislation he championed: Minimum Wage, the Immigration Act of 1965, the Child Care Act, the National Community Services Act, Head Start expansion, the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, the Ryan White AIDS Care Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Meals on Wheels for the elderly, abortion clinic access, family leave, and the formation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. None of these causes – and so many many many more – would never have existed without this Champion. His words to his brother Bobby, at another sad day in History, are just as appropriate today about himself… “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.” “ – Edward Kennedy
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