My prayers go out to Senator Kennedy’s wife, his children and to all the Kennedy Family.

Senator Kennedy was my senator and will be remembered by Bostonians - first and foremost - as a fighter.  For nearly a half-century in the Senate, Kennedy fought to reform our schools, strengthen our civil rights, help seniors and working families, lift up the poor, and to ensure every American has access to quality and affordable health care.

I will most remember him for the eulogy he gave for his brother Bobby in 1968.  The description he gave his brother also sums up what he was to many as someone who “saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”