Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Laid to Rest Beside Brothers

It was a rainy afternoon on Saturday as US Senator and health-care activist Edward M. Kennedy was laid at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. He was buried next to his brothers, former president John F. Kennedy and former senator Robert F. Kennedy.

The burial closed four days worth of public and private memorial. President Barack Obama delivered his eulogy in Boston to an audience which included former presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter.Obama described the senator as a "veritable force of nature," who "was given a gift of time that his brothers were not. And he used that time to touch as many lives and right as many wrongs as the years would allow."

The flags at Washington DC flew at half-mast as Kennedy's coffin was wheeled through the city streets, which were lined with mourners. At the gravesite in Virginia, a squad of seven riflemen fired three volleys and a bugler sounded the taps.

Kennedy was 77 when he passed away Tuesday of a brain tumor. The late senator served represented Massachusetts in the Senate for 47 years. He was considered to be the foremost liberal Democrats of the 20th century.

Source: Associated Press