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<DIV>Missouri's, indeed, St. Joe's, favorite son Walter Cronkite died
today. With all the excessive hoopla surrounding Michael Jackson's death,
I hope the media will devote its attention to a true American hero who did not
have any skeletons in his closet. He reported the news fairly and
honestly. Who could not forget seeing him wiping his tearstained face and
removing his horn-rimmed glasses, announcing President John F. Kennedy was
fatally shot or rubbing his hands together with glee when Neil
Armstrong first set foot in the moon? He showed courage, too,
telling his television audience we ought to get out of Vietnam. He was
voted The Most-Trusted Person in America several times, even above Reverend
Billy Graham. But he was modest and humbled by all these accolades.
I just finished reading his autobiography, <EM>A Reporter's Life</EM>, and he
was as real as real can be. Rest in Peace, Uncle Walter. And that's
the way it is.....
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