Comments on: President Harward issues a statement on Muskie's death /news/1996/03/26/muskie-statement/ Sun, 10 May 2026 08:05:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Mike Aldrich /news/1996/03/26/muskie-statement/#comment-268231 Sun, 10 May 2026 08:05:06 +0000 http://home.bates.edu/?p=21632#comment-268231 When my little sister Laura accidentally drowned at our camp on Norway Lake in 1970 Ed Muskie came to our camp with my grandfather Rupert to console my parents. My father David was a democratic state senator at the time. As a 9 year old boy I stood in shock as I watched the gentleness and compassion of Ed muskie. He and his son Ned stayed with us the entire day as we went swimming and boating. Ed was just a normal person who loved people.

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