Wednesday, August 26, 2009
U.S Senator Edward Kennedy, the last of the Kennedy brothers, died on Tuesday, August 25, after battling brain cancer.
"Edward M. Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port (Massachusetts)," the Kennedy family said in a statement early on Wednesday.
In May 2008, Edward Kennedy collapsed at his Cape Cod home and was flown to hospital in Boston, where he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Brain cancer kills half its victims within a year.
Kennedy's illness kept him from attending the funeral of his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a leading advocate of the mentally disabled, who died on August 11 at the age of 88.
Born on February 22, 1932, Edward Moore Kennedy was the last of four sons and five daughters born to millionaire businessman Joseph Kennedy and his wife, Rose.
I don't know much about him and his life aside from the information available in the internet but he was seemed to be love by his family, relatives, colleagues, and countrymen.
May you rest in peace Senator Kennedy.
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