I am a little young to really remember Walter Cronkite’s news reports, I believe he was still on the air when I was a kid. But I know, unfailingly who he is. I think we all did. He was more than a newsman, he was an American icon.
I wonder why that is? Because he was a trustworthy man? Because he was a class act? All of the above? I heard his report on the moonwalk, and on the Vietnam war on rememberance shows after his death. I understand that even the president took notice of his Vietnam report.
I doubt we’ll ever have another news reporter that can ever touch him, although, nothing against Brian Williams, but he was one of a kind.
So, I say Goodbye to a man I never met and don’t really remember, but with a strange sadness nonetheless.
