U2 frontman Bono along with Glen Hansard of The Swell Season performed at the funeral for Maria Shriver's father, Sargent Shriver. Bono seemed pretty broken up, but rallied to finish the song. Bono wrote an Op-Ed about Sargent Shriver in The New York Times in which he said:
Robert Sargent Shriver changed the world more than a few times and, I am happy to say, changed my world forever. In the late '90s, when the Jubilee 2000 campaign -- which aimed to cancel the debts that the poorest nations owed to the richest -- asked me to help in the United States, I called on the Shriver clan for help and advice. What I got were those things in spades, and a call to arms like a thump in the back.
In the years since, Bobby Shriver -- Sarge's oldest son -- and I co-founded three fighting units in the war against global poverty: DATA, ONE and (RED). We may not yet know what it will take to finish the fight and silence suffering in our time, but we are flat out trying to live up to Sarge's drill.
