BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's son Ted Jr. remembered him as a man who 'never stopped trying to right wrongs' at his funeral Mass Saturday at Boston's Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica — Boston's famed 'Mission Church.'
'My father was not perfect, but he believed in redemption,' he said.
'Although it hasn't been easy at times to live with this name, I have never been more proud of it than I am today,' Ted Jr. said.
He said his father had made light of his failure to become president, despite the weight of expectations on him as a Kennedy.
'I don't mind not being president, I just mind that someone else is,' he quoted his father as saying.
The funeral began with a hearse bearing Kennedy's body through Boston rain from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library to Mission Church. A military honor guard carried the coffin through a sea of black umbrellas into the church."
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