I first heard this quote a few years ago during one of Bruno Trouble's speeches at the America's Cup and read about it today referenced in an article that talked about Teddy Kennedy's video tribute shown at the Democratic Convention, which leaned heavily on images of him sailing. Wanted to save it here and share it with you all:This from a speech JFK gave at the America's Cup in September 1962:
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.
Photo:President and Mrs. Kennedy view America's Cup race, 15 September 1962Off Newport, Rhode Island, aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD 850)
Date: September 15, 1962Copyright: Public DomainCredit: Photograph by Robert Knudsen, White House, in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
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