HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO MRS. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY SR.
COUNTY DUBLIN
DEAR MRS. KENNEDY,
ALL THROUGH THESE TERRIBLE DAYS, I GRIEVE FOR YOU AND MR. KENNEDY --- STUNNED AT THE MEASURE OF YOUR SORROW. --- I HOPE IT WILL BE OF SOME JOY TO YOU TO KNOW THAT SURELY EVERY PERSON IN IRELAND HAS PRAYED FOR YOUR SON TODAY --- AND FOR HIS SPLENDID FAMILY. THE MEMORY OF THE IRISH BEING WHAT IT IS, YOU WILL BE PRAYED FOR ON THIS ISLAND FOR YEARS AND YEARS TO COME ... SCHOOLS AND SHOPS, GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS IS AT A STANDSTILL TODAY ... ONLY JACK COULD HAVE SO CAUGHT THE RESPECT AND LOVE OF A COUNTRY NOT HIS OWN.
NO ONE IS PROUDER THAN I AM TO SHARE HIS CITIZENSHIP, HIS FAITH, AND THROUGH ETHEL AND BOBBY, --- HIS FAMILY. ---
LOVE,
PAT SKAKEL CUFFE
PAGE 59 OF THE BOOK -
"DEAR MRS. KENNEDY, THE WORLD SHARES ITS GRIEF LETTERS, NOVEMBER 1963"
BY JAY MULVANEY AND PAUL DE ANGELIS
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