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Previous Class Day speakers have includedformer Massachusetts Governor and father of DavidM. Weld '98, William F. Weld '66; music producerand father of Rashida Jones '97, Quincy Jones; andNBC news anchor Tom Brokaw...
...mother lode from which the anchorman's well-received companion volume of the same name was mined. The book, written with Todd Brewster, is perched on the New York Times best-seller list, 11 slots behind The Greatest Generation, a historical tome by another network-news anchor, Tom Brokaw...
...Brokaw, 58, begins his story close to home, honoring his father Anthony ("Red") Brokaw, who was posted to an Army ordnance depot in Igloo, S.D. Moving farther afield, he profiles Bob Bush, a Washington State businessman who won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his service as a Navy medic on Okinawa. Bush's modesty is typical of many ordinary men who selflessly threw themselves into the most dangerous places...
...balance, though, Brokaw's parade is a little heavy on big-shot veterans like former Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger and Washington lawyer Lloyd Cutler. They tend to upstage the little-known people who are the subjects of Brokaw's strongest feelings. Still, who would not want to know that Art Buchwald was a bumbling Marine who failed to get a laugh when he dropped a bomb he was loading onto a Corsair? Or that 6-ft. 2-in. Julia Child served with the OSS in India after the WAVES rejected her because she was too tall...
...greatest, all Brokaw's heroes--tall and short, famous and obscure--are part of the great generation that turned the old Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" into a blessing...