Walter Cronkite: another icon has passed

Being the news junkie that I am, and growing up in a news junkie house, Walter Cronkite was like one of the family. Walter Cronkite WAS the news. He was the CBS anchor from 1962 thru 1981. I was there with him. I don't remember him covering the Kennedy assassination, because I was only six. But I remember watching the funeral--sitting mesmerized in front of our black and white TV--watching over and over and over again the horse drawn carriage and John John's salute.

I watched the Civil Rights marches, the Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy funerals, battles of the Vietnam war, Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, Watergate and countless other 'Breaking News' events all reported by the most 'trusted man in the US', Walter Cronkite.

I remember being a young adult and not having a Friday night date. The girls at work would ask what I was going to do after work. My response would be that I had a date with Walter. No one ever knew that my date was with Walter Cronkite and the CBS Evening News.

Heaven is really jumping now: Farrah has taken over all greeting and hospitality functions -- making sure that everyone is safe, happy and well cared for. Michael is singing and dancing up a storm. The whole joint's been jumping since he arrived. And now Walter is keeping everyone up to date and informed. And that's the way it is--July 17, 2009.