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 write 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,

what he wished for others for someday 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.

For some men see things as they are and say why I dreamed things that never were and say why not.

That was Senator Ted Kennedy at the funeral of his brother Bobby.

Second funeral he would have to mark.

And today's June 6th, the David Ignatius II monumental things happen on this day of course,

the assassination and the death.

The assassination of the fifth, the death of Bobby Kennedy on June 6th, 1968, a day that

really marked in many ways a low point the chaos of the 1960s.

And I must say also a day that many say this country still has not recovered from politically.

The second actually a glorious achievement and that was 79 years ago today, more than

160,000 American, British and Canadian troops landed in Nazi occupied France during World

War II in the largest air land and sea invasion ever.

I've been to Normandy so many times and it's still every time it's incomprehensible that

these 18-year-old kids, 19-year-old kids, the boys of Haunt-to-Haunt, scaled the walls,

liberate as I said that they were going in there.

They were going to liberate the continent from Nazi tyranny and that they did.

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