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Cronkite and Me

And the goshdarn Liberal Wrote: Jul 28, 2009 11:46 AM

I have always believed that if 10,000 white boys had stood up and said "I will not be drafted to fight in this immoral war" and then went to jail, we would not have had the war*. But no, they went and got their deferments any way they could. The sad truth is, however, you conservative anti-communists were not volunteering in droves either. "Let's you and him fight" was your mantra, very much like today.

Do any of you remember the "light at the end of the tunnel" that we had heard daily for 3 years prior to TET? Or perhaps the leadership of Nixon's "secret plan" to end the war - that included dragging it out for 4 years so he could be reelected? Or perhaps the "body count" that destroyed the VC and NVA several times...

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Cronkite and Me

Like most of my draft-dodging generation, during the 1960s I heard Walter Cronkite’s authoritative voice more often than I heard the voices of my own parents.

I even ate dinner hundreds of times with the sainted TV journalist who anchored the CBS evening news from 1962 until 1981 and died last week at age 92.

I grew up on a nightly diet of TV news and commentary that was written, produced and spun by “the most trusted man in America” and his gang of liberal CBS reporters and commentators.