I remember as a kid watching the news. This was a regular occurrence because my family was always thirsty for knowledge of world events. Even as a child I remember hearing his special reports and going to EPCOT and hearing his awe inspiring voice on Spaceship Earth.

When I got internet in my senior year of high school, I looked up this man who had so often intrigued me and saw his reporting work during World War 2, Vietnam War, Kennedy Assassination and Watergate. Always at the end "...and that's the way it is, this ### day of ####."

This man, who I never met became a distant family member. I would look forward to going home while in high school so I could watch and re-watch his old stories for the honesty and integrity he seemed to embody. He was integrity when our leaders let us down, our soul when the country felt it was going to tear itself apart and our heart when the country felt powerless. Through it all, always, his morality, integrity and decency ebbed from him like a light.

There will never be a news anchor like him again. In the cutthroat news business, people like him would get chewed up and spit out. It is odd that we tend to destroy what we need most, but every generation has something it stands for that is what my generation will be known for. Still, I will always think of that distant family member who I watched deliver news with an aura of purity that could not help but endear him to so many people. That man that, for so many people, was the star that charted their course through the worst trials of the 20th century. The man that, it seemed, most families reserved a seat for at the dinner table and let into their lives and their heart.

"It really does seem darkest before the dawn." Walter Leland Cronkite, I never met you, shook your hand, ate dinner with you or talked with you about life but we all let you into our lives. The world is a sadder, more dishonest and darker place without you in it.

Okay...do this or don't. I am bored at work and checking LJ. Doing this will take up the time it takes our IT dept to fix BASIS.

1) Ever been in a relationship lasting over 5 years?
Nope...only one over 5 months.

2) What was your dream growing up?
To live on a farm...did that already.

3) What talent do you wish you had?
The ability to say the right thing at the right time. Never. Gonna. Happen.

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
Hmmmmm...alcoholic: Beer or VT. non-alcoholic: water

5) Favorite book?
'Atlas Shrugged'

6) What was the last book you read?
SQL 2005 Inside and Out

7) What zodiac sign are you?
Aries/Taurus cusp

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
none atm. In August, I will have 4.

9) Worst Habit?
Being devil's advocate

10) Best attribute?
Physical? Eyes (although, I am told my facial structure is pretty cool)
Personality? Being true to how I feel.

11) What is your favorite hobby?
Work...or WoW

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
Where is the choice for realist or pragmatist? I am a realist.

13) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
Hmmmmm, toss up for losing my hearing in one ear or blood clot. Take your pick.

14) Best thing to ever happen to you?
Meeting my current circle of friends.

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
Ohhhhh....way too many to choose from. I can go for five days without sleeping and occasionally do.

16) What scares you?
being touched by people I do not know

17) If you could change one thing about how you are, what would it be?
Ummmm...nothing.

18) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
lol...you have got to be kidding me. Def crime partner.

19) What color eyes do you have?
black, brown, greenish-brown.

20) Ever been arrested?
No...just kidding, yes. Ask Rafe.

21) Cake or pie?
Pecan Pie...but only my grandmother's.

22) If you won $100 today, what would you do with it?
pay bills :-P

23) What's your favorite place to hang out?
Tampa Bay Brewing Company

24) Do you believe in ghosts?
Sometimes

25) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
Play WoW or work.

26) Do you swear a lot?
I have no fucking idea what you are talking about.

27) Biggest pet peeve?
people who do not do what they say they will. do not saying something unless you can deliver.

28) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
P.I.T.A.

29) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
sometimes

30) Strangest place you've had sex?
Back seat of my car in my job's parking lot.

31) Do you believe in an afterlife?
sometimes

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