"nada" wrote in message ...
Eisboch wrote:
Sad news.

Hard for the younger generation to realize, I think. Michael Jackson's
passing is more important.

Cronkite's passing is starting to make me feel old.

RIP.

Eisboch
They have a procedure using electricity somehow to make you forget old
memories.
Kids have great outlooks and few melancholy or bad memories.
People that stay active and focused on where they are going are generally
happy and healthier.
When you have to give up work etc your mind starts to work and remember
all those accumulated experiences and conditions your outlook. It is not
age that makes many retirees depressed. It is usually bad health caused or
influenced by stress including consequences of memories now coming to the
surface all the time.
Cronkite's passing means so much, to many, of us, because he was a fond
fixture, of our youth and we miss that. We have little to replace what we
had. This generation doesn't know what they missed. Perhaps it is better
that way.


A little heavy for me.

I just grew up (as I suspect many of us here did) watching a true
professional journalist deliver the news in a truly unbiased manner. (he was
a hard core liberal, but you would never know it then).

I watched him briefly break up while reporting JFK's assassination and
death.
I watched him react in awe as Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon.
I watched him report the assassination of Martin Luther King.
I watched him give the nightly "body bag count" during the Vietnam War.

He was the last of the old school, professional journalists. It's why
people like Olbermann make me sick.

Eisboch