Oh Walter Where Are You When We Need You?

Sat and relived our adult lives last evening as Walter Cronkite's extraordinary career was profiled on PBS. There it all was--the Democratic convention, Viet Nam, Kennedy's assassination, the man on the moon, Nixon's debacle, the Camp David accords, a smiling and soon to be killed Sadat, and on and on.

Most striking were the Viet Nam reports which could easily be re-broadcast with only one small change in the country's name. It was uncanny--the same over optimism, imperial hybris, bragadocio of commanders, blood of the grunts, and always the tear stained fear stricken faces of the civilian victims. "Lord what fools these mortals be." I wish it were a midsummer night's dream and not a reality.