"John was so much more than those long-ago images emblazoned in our minds. He was a boy who grew into a man with a zest for life and a love of adventure. He had a legacy, and he learned to treasure it. He was part of a legend, and he learned to live with it. He was still becoming the person he would be, and doing it by the beat of his own drummer. He had only just begun. There was in him a great promise of things to come."

- Sen. Edward Kennedy at John Kennedy's Memorial Service

"For a thousand days, he was a husband who adored the wife who became his perfect soul mate. John's father taught us all to reach for the moon and the stars. John did that in all he did, and he found his shining star when he married Carolyn Bessette."

- Sen. Edward Kennedy

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