CHAPTER SIX
Achievement: Playing to Win
On August 29, 2009, Ted Kennedy Jr. delivered this moving eulogy at the funeral of his father, Senator Ted Kennedy Sr.:1
“When I was 12 years old, I was diagnosed with bone cancer. A few months after I lost my leg, there was a heavy snowfall over my childhood home outside of Washington, D.C. My father went to the garage to get the old Flexible Flyer sled and asked me if I wanted to go sledding down the steep driveway. I was trying to get used to my new artificial leg and the hill was covered with ice and snow and it wasn’t easy for me to walk. And the hill was very slick and as I struggled to walk, I slipped and I fell on the ice and I started to cry and I said, ‘I can’t do this.’ I said, ‘I’ll never be ...
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