EClark Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Walter Cronkite Died today at age 92,God Rest His Soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davis Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Rest in peace walter, I met walter at Gia Lam Airport in north vienam when the POW`s were being released in 1973. He was inside the airport buying N. Vietnam postage stamps. The stampes were printed with a B-52 on them going down in flames. He got about four sheets, I did have two stamps but they got lost over the years.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmac_Project Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 We have truely lost an American Icon in a time when we have so few. Engine Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fräulein Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Truly we have lost a great newsman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Hebbard Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 I met Walter Cronkite at Goose Bay, Labrador in 1982 or 83 in the USAF officers mess (of which I was an associate member), not long after he retired from TV. He was with a film crew doing a documentary on the Northern Lights and had come Goose for filming (Goose was a great place to see the lights) and crew R&R. He was gracious enough to sign an autograph for my father, who was a big fan. He enjoyed a few drinks and chatted away pleasantly to everyone present. I was, at the time, a young TV newscaster and was more than a little intimidated to be talking to such a lion of the profession but he was the perfect gentleman and treated me as a colleague. One doersn't forget that kind of class, even if (or perhaps because) I am a Canadian. Gary Hebbard St. John's, Newfoundland Canada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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