Among the steady stream of mourners who flowed into a white and gray clapboard church Thursday to pay their respects to Eunice Kennedy Shriver was Mike Rhodes, a 25-year-old mentally disabled man who left a handmade card for the founder of the Special Olympics.

On it was written a simple message: “She taught us to stand tall.”

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