Thinking Out Loud
Uncle Walter: As moonstruck as the rest of us
It was somehow fitting that Walter Cronkite would breathe his last as America revisited the 1969 moon landing.
For all of Cronkite's gifts and contributions, I remember him most for his coverage of the space program, culminating in those fuzzy, surreal images of man's first steps on the lunar surface.
Cronkite managed to combine his trademark professionalism and knowledge with the same awe most of the rest of us were feeling.
As a boy I watched his coverage into the wee hours of the night, curled up in an overstuffed chair in the family den.
Choosing whom to seek as my eyes and ears for the Apollo mission was unconscious and automatic. Who else would it be?
Cronkite's words, by the way, when man finally had touched down on the moon: "Wow."
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