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I’m an incurable romantic when it comes to major events in American history, particularly ones which happen right in front of me.  Which I guess is why I’ve been writing so much about Ted Kennedy’s passing, and why this nugget caught my eye.

This morning, practically every United States Senator is filing into the JFK Library as I type this.  Supreme Court justices are in attendance.  Countless congressman from the US House are on the way, or already there, including the Speaker of the US House.  And this is the service before the funeral mass, where the President of the United States will deliver the eulogy, in front of a congregation which includes every living former US President, in a church not far from where Ted Kennedy’s grandfather threw out the first pitch at the first game ever played at Fenway Park as mayor of Boston in 1912, and into which I just saw Tony Bennett and Bill Russell enter.

What an incredible, uniquely American story the Kennedy family has become.