Morning news reports were saying that more than 20,000 mourners had passed by Edward Kennedy’s coffin at the Kennedy Library. Thousands more had lined the route of the motorcade that took the late senator’s body from Hyannis Port through Boston.
Last night I remembered how Edward Kennedy’s brother lay in state in the nation’s capitol as this music was played—I don’t know who played it, CBS, NBC? and how the long reach of history has touched the Kennedys, and through them touched us all.