A Simple Farewell to Eunice Kennedy Shriver

"Let me win, but if I cannot win let me be brave in the attempt."

-- Special Olymics Oath

(Photo courtesy of www.jfklibrary.org)

With thanks for founding the Special Olympics, and teaching the world that we are at our best when we focus not on the differences between us, but on the things that make us the same. Which we should all be striving to do, all the time, on and off the playing field.

(Photo courtesy of www.eunicekennedyshriver.org; by Jack McCallum; originally published in Sports Illustrated Magazine, December 8, 2008)

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