Sen. Edward Kennedy Funeral Mass Begins

[cjzzzzz]

FU Edward Kennedy haters. The man did wrong, but he tried to make up for it for the rest of his life. Who among you critics ever did what this man was able to do?

[1026353002]

Who needs the Pope's words/approval for things anyways?  Are you a Catholic? and do you really judge others by whether the Pope says something about it or not?

[amethystaple]

And I bet you call yourself a Christian, you filthy rotten slime of an excuse for a human being. May you and your family enjoy the losses and tragedies the Kennedy's have endured with grace. May you, your children and their children know only the pain that you have brought upon them with your inhumane words.

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At 7:09 the guy with the shaved head and long beard - he gave me new respect for men with beards. His was long, clean, and very classy looking. Is he a priest yet or in seminary? Either way, if he is a priest he looks pretty cool ! :)

[Madmac1648]

You people with these negative comments are really sad. I feel really sorry for you no matter what his was or what he did he was somebody father somebody friend someones' son. All people have failings all people are not perfect.

[arkivx1]

Kennedy failed to report the incident to the authorities until the car and Kopechne's body were discovered the next morning.[ Kopechne's parents said that they learned of their daughter's death from Ted Kennedy himself before he reported his involvement to the authorities, but that they learned Kennedy had been the driver only from wire press releases some time later. A week after the incident, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury. drunk bastard.

[SharpasaKnife1]

Kennedy said he mistakenly turned right onto a gravel road and skidded off the bridge, the car landing upside-down in eight feet of water. After escaping the car, he tried unsuccessfully to rescue Ms. Kopechne, then staggered a mile back to the party cottage, where he got his cousin Joseph Gargan and friend Paul Markham to return for a second rescue try.

[SharpasaKnife1]

Failing that, they went to the ferry landing, where, they said, Kennedy "impulsively" jumped into the water and swam across to Edgartown, by his own account "nearly drowning a second time."

[SharpasaKnife1]

Gargan and Markham, a former federal prosecutor in Boston, said they assumed that Kennedy, once at Edgartown, would contact the police, and were stunned the next morning to discover he had not done so.

In fact it was a full nine hours -- and after he learned that the submerged car with a body inside had been discovered -- that Kennedy reported the accident to police and said he had been the driver.