Sunday, August 30, 2009 WASHINGTON: Democratic lion Edward Kennedy was Saturday reunited with his slain brothers laid to rest in a Virginia cemetery as a lone bugle player brought the curtain down on a political dynasty.Surrounded by his tight-knit family which has dominated US politics for half a century, Kennedy's body was brought to Arlington National Cemetery, to rest on a hillside overlooking the nation's capital.The late senator was being buried 100 feet (30 meters) from the grave of his brother, Robert Kennedy, assassinated in 1968, and close to the eternal flame marking the last resting place of president John F. Kennedy, shot dead in 1963.Three days of high emotion drew to a close as the nation bid a final farewell to the man who had the Kennedy mantle thrust on him and who spent 47 years tirelessly working in the US senate to improve the lives of others.At a Catholic mass earlier in the Kennedy fiefdom of Boston, President Barack Obama, who won key support from the K...
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