It's a sad day for me . Walter was a hero of mine. He loved sailing and seab...@cbsnews was his email for a long time after he had retired. I found his email one day in the CBS global directory and sent him an email and told him a story about how as a five year old, I started school in Fresno. My parents were from West Virginia and Alabama and I had a ferocious southern accent when I started elementary school and got teased unmercifully. After school I would sit and watch the news with Walter Cronkite and imitate him and trained myself to not have a southern accent but a Midwestern accent. Later in school I often had English teachers asking me when I had moved to California from the Midwest. They all had a hard time believing I had grown up here, as I didn't have San Joaquin Valley speech patterns like git and ah-gin, warsh it and then put it thru the wrench cycle, etc. I told him thanks for being there and he had inspired my occasional forays into the journalism world. He wrote a note back saying he loved my story and it made him laugh to think there might have been a nation of toddlers running around imitating him. I just retired the somewhat hokey KFCF radio promo for our news stringer fund I had done in my (poor) Walter Cronkite impersonation. I just aired a radio documentary he had hosted on Glacial melting. America has lost a legend, and a voice. Rych
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard de Give Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Uncle Walter Closes The Show If Danny doesn't mind me stealing his "teevee worth watching" line, CBS will air a retrospective on Sunday at 7 p.m. (in the "60 Minutes" timeslot, no less. --- On Fri, 7/17/09, Glenda Collins <[email protected]> wrote: From: Glenda Collins <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Uncle Walter Closes The Show To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 6:05 PM Very sad indeed. How lucky are we that saw and heard his broadcasts. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 17, 2009, at 5:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: Expected, but still sad. -----Original Message----- From: CNN Breaking News <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Jul 17, 2009 8:22 pm Subject: CNN Breaking News -- Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite is dead at age 92, CBS reports. >+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Politics from a new perspective. Earn your Masters in Political Management from The George Washington University.Recognized as the "West Point of Politics." Visit <http://pm.gspmonline.com/cnnta> http://pm.gspmonline.com/cnnta >+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= You have opted-in to receive this e-mail from CNN.com. To unsubscribe from Breaking News e-mail alerts, go to: <http://cgi.cnn.com/m/clik?l=textbreakingnews> http://cgi.cnn.com/m/clik?l=textbreakingnews. One CNN Center Atlanta, GA 30303 (c) & (r) 2009 Cable News Network _____ Stay cool with this summer's hottest movies. Moviefone brings you trailers, celebrities, <http://www.moviefone.com/summer-movies?ncid=emlweusmovi00000004> movie showtimes and tickets! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
