December 2010
10 posts
“Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let...”
– Robert F. Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy III on the set of AmeriQua
‘Bobby Kennedy III certainly has the face of a moviestar. There is an Orlando Bloom look to him: the alien-high cheekbones of the Kennedy family are there, but the chipmunck cheeks seem to have been bred out by this generation, the third after his grandfather, senator Bobby Kennedy.’ (from: British Tatler: Kennedys rising, 2010)
Kennedy and the Pt-109
It is arguably the most famous small-craft engagement in naval history, an it was an unmitigated disaster. At a later date, when asked to explain how he had come to be a hero, one of the young commanders involved, by then an aspiring politician, replied laconically, “It was involuntary. They sank my boat.”
John F. Kennedy’s comment speaks a soldier’s clear-eyed...
Innocent Bobby...
Who would ever thought this boy would later be called ‘ruthless’…