A letter in the AZ Republic claimed Mitt Romney is wealthy and that makes him no different from the Kennedys who were prominent in Democratic politcs and whose son became president and then was assassinated. The Kennedys were different from Romney in one major respect that bound them closely to working class Boston. Their father's political influence could have kept them far from danger during World War II, but Joe Kennedy Jr. volunteered to be a Naval Aviator and was killed during the war. John Kennedy volunteered for combat duty and skippered the Navy's PT 109 during the desperate fighting in the South Pacific. Without that on his resume John Kennedy would never have been elected to represent working class Boston Democrats. It's not as though Mitt didn't have his chance. During the Vietnam War he opted for defending France.
