RFK Jr. Calls Charlie Kirk his ‘Soulmate’ on Massive Kennedy Center Vigil

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. felt a special bond with Charlie Kirk.

The 71-year-old health secretary celebrated the 31-year-old Conservative Media Pound-As was Deadly shot On Wednesday, September 10 – During a Sunday 14 September ceremony at Kennedy Center In Washington, DC

RFK Jr. Opened his speech with an anecdote about his 17-year-old niece who was ready to go to college in Europe. He said she packed a Bible and told her mother that she wanted to “live like Charlie Kirk.”

“There are millions and millions of children around the country that he inspired who now want to stay with Charlie Kirk. And that is a fantastic thing for our country,” said RFK Jr. To The Cheering Public.

He continued and recalled the Kirk meeting in 2001 and said they quickly became “soulmates”.

“I think we contacted each other with a lot of terror at that time,” he admitted, leaving that it did not last long. “We were spiritual brothers and we were friends.”

After crediting Kirk to be “the primary architect of my association with President Trump,” politicians shared a serious conversation they had about death and the risks of living in the public eye.

He said they “talked about the danger that we both met from challenging anchored interests.”

“And he asked me if I was afraid to die. I told him:” There are much worse things than to die, “” added that “Chief among them loses our constitutional rights and that our children were raised in slavery. And I told him at that time, I said:” Sometimes our only comfort is that we can die with our boots. We can die for these things. “

RFK Jr. Kirk’s commitment to “free opinion” said, saying that he saw it as “intertwined” with his faith.

“He thought the conversation was the only way we would heal our country, that we had to learn how to talk to each other without vitriol, without married, without anger. We had to be able to listen to ideas. We had to say what we mean without being means and to talk to each other all over this gap.

When it comes to loss, he said he spoke to his mother, Ethel Kennedyabout 1984 -deaths of His brother DavidShare wisdom as he taught from her.

“I asked her, I said, ‘Make the hole they leave in you when they die, will it ever get less?’ And she said, “No. It never gets smaller, but our job is to build ourselves bigger around the hole. “We do this by taking the best virtues and traits of the person we lost and use discipline and restraint and practice integrating these character traits into our own character because the best parts of them now live on us.

In conclusion, RFK said: “Charlie gave his life so that the rest of us would not have to suffer from the humble than death. Now it is our job. He is no longer (here) to lead us, to rush in and fill the crime and win this battle for our country, for God and for our families.”

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