[Vision2020] Today (June 6, 2007)

[lfalen]

I don't have a problem with Bobby Kennedy, however he was not a common man. He came from a vary elete rich family. It is also amusing to me that he can be so venerated and Joe McCarthy so  vilified. Bobby worked as a council for Joe.

Roger
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From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:47:32 -0700
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Today (June 6, 2007)

> Today (June 6, 2007) not only marks the 63rd anniversary of D-Day in Europe,
> it serves as the 39th anniversary of the death of one of the finest
> Americans to ever grace this planet.  He was a common man that strongly
> believed in common things.  He was the most respected and most honorable
> Attorney General our nation has ever had the privilege of holding that
> office.  
> 
> We can only dream of how great, how respected world-wide, and how much of a
> beacon of human decency our nation would be had he been elected president in
> 1968.
> 
> Yet a single assassin took Bobby Kennedy's life on June 6th, 1968, ending
> the dreams of so many millions of Americans, as Bobby joined those that went
> before him . . .
> 
> "Abraham, Martin, and John"
> http://tinyurl.com/2grpsg
> 
> "Has anybody here, 
> Seen my old friend John, 
> Can you tell me, where he's gone, 
> He freed a lotta people, 
> But it seems the good die young, 
> I just looked around, 
> And he's gone, 
> 
> Has anybody here, 
> Seen my old friend Martin, 
> Can you tell me, where he's gone, 
> He freed a lotta people, 
> But it seems the good die young, 
> I just looked around, 
> And he's gone, 
> 
> Didn't you love the things they stood for, 
> Didn't they try to find some good for you and me, 
> And we'll be free, 
> Someday soon it's gonna be one day, 
> 
> Has anybody here, 
> Seen my old friend Bobby, 
> Can you tell me, where he's gone, 
> I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill, 
> With Abraham, Martin and John."
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> 
> "We must recognize the full human equality of all 
> our people - before God, before the law, and in the 
> councils of government. We must do this not 
> because it is economically advantageous - although 
> it is; not because the laws of God and man command 
> it - although they do command it; not because 
> people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for 
> the single and fundamental reason that it is the 
> right thing to do."
> 
> - Robert F. Kennedy
> 
> 
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