Happy 70th birthday to John Kerry!

[karynnj]

6. Very nice!

This has been an incredible year for him. I hope that the next three years see the fruits of the hard work he has started this year. It is also great that he still has Teresa by his side loving him and believing in him.

Reading all the things written on his peace efforts, I can't help remember the letter he wrote his first wife (before they married) when he learned of the death of his friend Pershing. He wrote:

" if I do nothing else in my life I will never stop trying to bring to people the conviction of how wasteful and asinine is a human expenditure of this kind.''

Between his testimony in 1971 and today, he has certainly made good on that goal. I remember the Boston Globe reporting that the day when he officially was announced as the SOS nominee, he went to the grave of his friend.