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...Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw was the keynote speaker of "Operation Recognition 2000," held before a respectful crowd of about 400 in CRLS' War Memorial gymnasium...
...stand in awe of all of you because you have been my teachers," Brokaw said. "We are in awe of your modesty and your determination to be judged by a life lived well...
...Brokaw said his life was inalterably changed as veterans told him about their experiences on the beaches of Normandy in 1984, the 40th anniversary...
...little Elian Gonzalez radically changed my mind on this subject. Is this issue important? Yes. But the other day I arrived at the crux of the issue. A friend of mine, for whom I have the utmost respect in terms of keeping up with current events, flipped off Tom Brokaw's special afternoon update in favor of the highly intellectual Fox show "Real TV." Seeing a 300-pound Marlin pull a man out of his fishing boat definitely felt more important to watch at that point than anything Janet Reno could have done or said with the family. This settled...
...Memory is made of a weird elastic. World War II may be fresher now in the public mind than Vietnam. "Saving Private Ryan" brought it back, along with Tom Brokaw's book "The Greatest Generation." But in the next week, because of the anniversary, Vietnam will zoom close again in its vividness for those of us who remember it. To the young, it might as well be the Punic Wars...