Ted Kennedy, a friend of Bangladesh
Sunday, 20 September 2009
The people of Bangladesh were deeply shocked at the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who had expressed solidarity with the Bangladesh Liberation War.
US President Barak Obama described him as a Lion of the Senate House, who served as a brilliant Senator until his death for about forty years.
A vocal supporter of the cause of Bangladesh independence, Senator Kennedy visited refugee camps in west Bengal in India during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. He became one of the first international leaders to visit free Bangladesh in 1972.
A keen autograph-hunter, I had the opportunity to collect the autographs (Not-Facsimile) of the three Kennedy brothers. Assassinated President John F. Kennedy wrote back to me, dated December 27, 1960, in reply to my letter, in which I had congratulated him on his presidential election victory, and requested his autograph. Former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy sent their autographs (Not-Facsimile), on their respective photographs in 1962.
I was then a school student. I am now 68 years old.
I have been collecting autographs (Not-Facsimile) since 1958, when I was twelve. It was during early school years. I have already collected autographs of more than three thousand eminent personalities of the world, seven of them American Presidents, including Herbert Hoover, General Douglas Mcarthur, seven Secretaries-General of the United Nations, including the first, Trygve Lie, Lord Mountbatten, Lord Bertrand Russell and others.
I convey my deepest respects to the family of Senator Kennedy and pray for the salvation of his soul. We will remember him forever in our hearts.
Advocate Mohammad Anwarul Quader
Mati Manzil, Masterpara
Chakdev, Naogaon
US President Barak Obama described him as a Lion of the Senate House, who served as a brilliant Senator until his death for about forty years.
A vocal supporter of the cause of Bangladesh independence, Senator Kennedy visited refugee camps in west Bengal in India during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. He became one of the first international leaders to visit free Bangladesh in 1972.
A keen autograph-hunter, I had the opportunity to collect the autographs (Not-Facsimile) of the three Kennedy brothers. Assassinated President John F. Kennedy wrote back to me, dated December 27, 1960, in reply to my letter, in which I had congratulated him on his presidential election victory, and requested his autograph. Former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy sent their autographs (Not-Facsimile), on their respective photographs in 1962.
I was then a school student. I am now 68 years old.
I have been collecting autographs (Not-Facsimile) since 1958, when I was twelve. It was during early school years. I have already collected autographs of more than three thousand eminent personalities of the world, seven of them American Presidents, including Herbert Hoover, General Douglas Mcarthur, seven Secretaries-General of the United Nations, including the first, Trygve Lie, Lord Mountbatten, Lord Bertrand Russell and others.
I convey my deepest respects to the family of Senator Kennedy and pray for the salvation of his soul. We will remember him forever in our hearts.
Advocate Mohammad Anwarul Quader
Mati Manzil, Masterpara
Chakdev, Naogaon