I'm watching MSNBC's coverage as Teddy Kennedy's body makes the trip from Cape Cod to the JFK library in Boston, where his coffin will lie in state. Michael Beschloss said the images from the compound reminded him of that first time we watched a procession leave Hyannis Port, when JFK left to assume the Presidency. This is the bookend, the end of an era running from 1960 till today. It's not just that Ted Kennedy is gone, but that so much else, so much that has been part of the culture that shaped me and everyone else in their 40's and upward, becomes part of history as well. Our own deaths are somehow contained in this funeral as well as the Senator's.
Well, that's a perky little paragraph.
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