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Mon 08 Aug 2009Son's tribute sums up man who inspired great acts
FOR ALL his eloquence, not even President Barack Obama could match the emotional impact of Teddy Kennedy junior’s remembrance of his father at the US senator’s funeral Mass.
Teddy jnr, a lawyer and investment banker, told how his leg was amputated to save him from bone cancer when he was 12 years old. The following winter, wearing a prosthesis, he tried to climb the hill behind the family home to go sledging, but slipped and fell on the ice. “I can’t do this. I’ll never be able to do this,” the boy cried.
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