Silently on the 17th of June another true American hero died. Staff Sergeant Darrell Powers, one of hundreds of paratroopers assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, jumped into Normandy on June 6th, 1944. He eventually became part of the famed “Easy” Company, portrayed in the HBO serial “Band of Brothers,” originally screened in 2001.

My first memories of Walter Cronkite came as a young man, while at elementary school on a Friday in November of 1963, when the principle came on the intercom and patched the voice of Cronkite through the speakers, saying:
“From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official. President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time, 2 o’clock Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago.”