Posted on 08/11/2009 3:39:05 AM PDT by prisoner6
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88
By KRISTINA PETERSON
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of the famed Kennedy clan who devoted much of her life to children's charities, including founding the Special Olympics, died at the age of 88.
Known for her devotion to the mentally disabled community and in particular her mentally disabled sister Rosemary, Ms. Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968.
For years before, she had invited mentally disabled children to a summer camp held in the backyard of her Maryland home.
From the first group of 35 children, the Special Olympics grew into an organization that now hosts 227 programs in more than 180 countries and includes more than three million participants.
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God speed Eunice!
My mother, who despised all of the Kennedy’s except for this lady, often said that Eunice must have had a different father than the other Kennedy’s, a good and decent man.
RIP Eunice, you apparently took the right path in your life versus the onese your brothers took..
Let me rephrase what I said. If Sarah Palin's GRANDFATHER had done this to her aunt in he 1940s, the media would tell everyone all about it.
Get it? It makes no damn difference about understanding of brain medicine now and then. There are many other horrendous things Joe Kennedy did, including a death toll from mistreatment of poor Irish workers in his booze-smuggling phase, that the media will NEVER report.
Conservatives need to raise $40 million and produce a feature-length motion picture telling the FULL TRUTH about this disgusting family. The bubble the leftist have protected the Kennedys with must be burst.
Eunice had faith, hope, love, principles, respect for Life and respect for the Author of Life, all in the heart of a courageous and tenacious woman.
Reminds me of St. Francis Borgia: in the midst of a corrupt family and generation, a saint.
I wonder how much longer Sargent Shriver will be around now. He turns 95 in November.
Should be 94.
RIP...somebody’s grandma
can’t recall her doing anything loathsome like many of the threeleggers have
That was considered cutting-edge treatment then - and no pun intended. He spared no expense to help his daughter. Plenty of people received lobotomies because highly- educated medical doctors said that it would be the best way to treat them.
Remember thalidomide? Another case where what was thought to be a “miracle cure” at the time turned out to have monstrous consequences.
If in ten years, it turns out that materials used in hip and knee replacement joints actually causes an inoperable cancer, will you interpret the family support of the people who had the operations really as a hidden plan to murder them painfully? No - because at the time, they made the best choice they could with the information they had.
Joe Kennedy was a mighty big SOB, but that is not why he or Rose had this surgery performed on their daughter.
We now have a monument to projection on this thread. Thank You.
Yep, and you laid the cornerstone, and you keep adding bricks. Seems to be bothering you alot more than its bothering me. :)
I have a funny childhood story to share about the Shrivers. In the sixth grade my Navy officer dad got stationed to Bethesda, Md. I went to a high school football game with a friend’s older brother and the field was right next to the Shriver estate.
Well, we were not interested in football and saw some beautiful horses in the field next to us. So being dunces, we went into the field and to pet the horses. The horses were not impressed by our beauty and sweetness, however and they ran from us so we chased after them.
I soon took a hoof to the solar plexes and was down for the count. Fortunately the horse did not move in for an easy kill...
The Shrivers were democrats you could actually like. They did a lot for people with their own money.
On a personal note, Mr. Shriver gave my sister-in-law’s husband his first big break in Washington politics (he’s a lobbyist). While I never met either of them, I was lucky enough to have been taught law by two of his law partners in the late 70s. While I despise liberal politics, the Shrivers were class acts.
RIP
RIP.
Ouch! Did anyone come to help you?
A friend of mine has a funny story about Rose Kennedy. My friend, Mary — rather aggressive herself — got into a battle over a counter of marked down, designer wallets at an end of the season sale at a boutique in Palm Beach. End of the season in Palm Beach is around April 30.
Mary was scrambling through this pile of name brand wallets, grabbing Christmas gifts for her kids and their spouses. There was another lady there doing the same thing, and she kept grabbing the wallets that Mary had set aside. Mary would grab them right back. She finally gathered her pile and took them to the clerk to check out.
Mary’s friends (who had been watching with some amusement) said, on the way out of the store, “Do you know who that was? That was Rose Kennedy!”
Mary had been so focused on grabbing the bargains that she’d never looked up to see the face of her competitor. Rose was in her 90s at the time.
According to the literature that I’ve read, Joe arranged for that surgery for Rosemary on his own, in secret. He never told Rose because she would never have permitted it. Rose was furious when she found out what he’d done. That is why he was an SOB, among other reasons.
Rosemary was very pretty and rather slow — but she functioned just fine in a social setting. He was afraid that she was going to be promiscuous and would embarass the family. I think he was Ambassador to King James Court at the time, although I may have my dates mixed up.
And is anyone hiding this? It's not like there isn't a wealth of sources that you can read about this. There's not some coverup.
The fact of the matter is, despite what you want to believe, is that the timing matters. In 1940, a lobotomy was considered a cutting edge procedure that (seemingly) held a lot of promise to cure what the medical community understood to be certain ailments.
It is absolutely ridiculous to judge medical decisions of the past on today's knowledge. Why don't you next have a post about how the Founding Fathers were really tyrants because they used bloodletting and leeches?
The name of my Parish. I believe that there are only 2 St. Francis Borgia parishes in the US, and I belong to one of them. We have a twinning parish in Uganda that we support -- St. Paul Mukono. Our priest and a delegation of pilgrims just returned from there this week and announced that St. Paul Mukono has just named their new high school which we helped build -- St. Francis Borgia High School in our honor!
I know you didn't need to know all that, but you surprised me by invoking St. Francis Borgia this morning.
NBC had a "Kennedys" miniseries and glossed completely over it. There is a big difference between something being available to read, and trumpeted by the mainstream media and TV/movies.
or to tell others to give their hard earned money away.....
but RIP Eunice.....thankyou for the wonderful Special Olympics.....
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