VIDEO: Ted Kennedy Jr. lovingly memoralizes dad at Mass

By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Story Created: Aug 29, 2009 at 12:59 PM EST

Story Updated: Aug 29, 2009 at 1:06 PM EST

BOSTON (AP) - Ted Kennedy Jr. has saluted his fallen father as
his greatest source of love and encouragement through tough times.

The younger Kennedy, who lost a leg from cancer at the age of 12, stood before hundreds of mourners Saturday to memoralize Sen. Edward Kennedy at a funeral Mass in Boston. Kennedy's son said, "Although it hasn't been easy at times to live with this name, I've never been more proud of it than I am today."

Said Ted Kennedy Jr.: "He was not perfect - far from it. But my father believed in redemption and he never surrendered, never stopped trying to right wrongs, either as a result of his own failings or ours."

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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