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"There was a sound of laughter, in a mo
ment, it was no more. And, so she took a ring
from her finger and placed it in his hand.
"There was a wit in a man neither young
nor old; but a wit full of an old man's wisdom
and of a child's wisdom, and, then, in a mo
ment it was no more. And, so she took a ring
from her finger and placed it in his hands.
"There was a man marked with the scars
of his love of country, a body, active with the
surge of a life far, far from spent and, in a
moment, it was no more. And so, she took a
ring from her finger and placed it in his hands.
"There was a father with a little hoy, a lit
tle girl and a joy of each in the other. In a
moment it was no more, and so she took a ring
from her finger and placed it in his hand.
"There was a husband who asked much and
gave much, and, out of the giving and the ask
ing, wove with a woman what could not be
broken in life, and, in a moment it was no
more. And so, she took a ring from her finger
and placed ifi in his hand, and kissed him and
closed the lid of a coffin.
"A piece of each of us died at that moment.
Yet, in death he gave himself to us. He gave us
of a good heart from which the laughter came.
He gave us of a profound wit, from which a
great leadership emerged. He gave us of a
kindness and a strength fused into a human
courage to seek peace without fear.
"He gave us of his love that we, too, in turn,
might give. He gave that we might give of our
selves, that we might give to one another until
there would be no room, no room at all, for
the bigotry, the hatred, prejudice and the arro
gance which converged in that moment of hor
ror fo strike him down.
"In leaving us these gifts, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, President of the United States, leaves
with us. Will we take them, Mr. President? Will
we have, now, the sense and the responsibility
and the courage to take thern?"
Senator Mike Mansfield
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Wednesday, December 6, 1963
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