Eunice Kennedy Shriver is very ill

[Grace]

I just read a wonderful tribute to her in the Washington Post.

Written by a friend of 40 years, one of the paragraphs quite says it all -

I've wondered often why no biography, nor even a New Yorker profile, has been written about this singular woman who has bettered the lives of uncounted millions of the otherwise rejected. Of late, we've had biographies of Brooke Astor, Helen Gurley Brown, Julia Child, Mae West and Gypsy Rose Lee (two of her, no less). Apparently fewer people are interested in reading 400 pages about a life of unglittery goodness and giving. About a woman who was faithful to one husband, one church, one mission -- and, worse, who was never jailed, never overdosed and never threw things at stakeout reporters.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I have just finished a book about the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. It increased my admiration for Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She did so much good in this world.

The times she lived in and the dynamics of her family limited her in some ways. Nonetheless she made a difference in so many lives.

[Karen]

Rest in peace, fine lady.

[Grace]

An interesting tidbit in all the articles about her this week -

Eunice Kennedy Shriver is the first and thus far only woman to have her portrait appear on a U.S. coin during her lifetime. It was the 1995 commemorative Special Olympics silver dollar.