John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., 1960-1999: Memorial Tributes in the One Hundred Sixth Congress of the United StatesDIANE Publishing, 2001 - 123 pàgines Memorial tributes given by Senators to John F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of late Pres. John F. Kennedy, after his tragic death, along with his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette, in his private plane when it crashed into the sea near Martha's Vineyard on July 16, 1999. Includes a tribute by Rep. Eliot Engle of NY; Statements by Pres. Clinton and V.P. Gore; Memorial Services, Church of St. Thomas More: Special Tribute by Sen. Ed Kennedy, Readings by Anne Freeman and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, John's sister; Commentary and Tributes from various newspapers and mag., inc. Editor's Letter, George Mag., which John had edited; and Statement of Paul Kirk, Chmn. of the John F. Kennedy Lib. Fdn. |
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Pàgina 8
... lost at an age far too young for easy acceptance by a country which had affectionately watched him grow to manhood . His untimely death feels as heavy and oppressive as the too hot , too dry summer in which he lived his final days ...
... lost at an age far too young for easy acceptance by a country which had affectionately watched him grow to manhood . His untimely death feels as heavy and oppressive as the too hot , too dry summer in which he lived his final days ...
Pàgina 9
... lost someone very dear . " When not inconvenient to your heart , " she wrote , " please remem- ber us , and let us help you carry [ your grief ] , if you grow tired . " I know I speak for many of us when I JOHN F. KENNEDY JR . 9.
... lost someone very dear . " When not inconvenient to your heart , " she wrote , " please remem- ber us , and let us help you carry [ your grief ] , if you grow tired . " I know I speak for many of us when I JOHN F. KENNEDY JR . 9.
Pàgina 11
... lost a young son . The man's name is David Ray . His son's name was Sam . Sam died , at 19 , also in a car accident . After Sam's death , his father wrote a whole series of poems to him , and about him . I'd like to read a very short ...
... lost a young son . The man's name is David Ray . His son's name was Sam . Sam died , at 19 , also in a car accident . After Sam's death , his father wrote a whole series of poems to him , and about him . I'd like to read a very short ...
Pàgina 12
... lost off the New England coast . Lost on a day that seemed meant for gladness , 12 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES.
... lost off the New England coast . Lost on a day that seemed meant for gladness , 12 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES.
Pàgina 13
... Lost on a day that seemed meant for gladness , not grief . Lost in waters that should have welcomed pleasure , not disaster . For one family , the Kennedy family , a moment of a family's supreme joy— a wedding — was snatched greedily by ...
... Lost on a day that seemed meant for gladness , not grief . Lost in waters that should have welcomed pleasure , not disaster . For one family , the Kennedy family , a moment of a family's supreme joy— a wedding — was snatched greedily by ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 7 - Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
Pàgina 39 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Pàgina 12 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...
Pàgina 20 - Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!
Pàgina 94 - And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Pàgina 116 - Youth is not a time of life ; it is a state of mind. It is...
Pàgina 39 - Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
Pàgina 39 - Death is nothing at all - I have only slipped away into the next room - I am I and you are you - whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Pàgina 24 - I don't think there's any point in being Irish, if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart eventually.
Pàgina 8 - ... the less comfortably on this account. Mr. Lathrop is able to testify to the fact, by no means a surprising one, that he wrote verses at college, though the few stanzas that the biographer quotes are not such as to make us especially regret, that his rhyming mood was a transient one. " The ocean hath its silent caves, • Deep, quiet and alone. Though there be fury on the waves, Beneath them there is none.