Remembering the Day I Met Walter Cronkite

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By Gary Kopycinski

"Youth is wasted on the young." – George Bernard Shaw

That’s what Mr. O’Neill used to tell us in grade school. It was one of his favorite sayings. We’re told the quote originated with George Bernard Shaw, but, as far as I’m concerned, Mr. O’Neill said it first.

I thought of that quote today when I heard the sad news of the passing of Walter Cronkite at age 92, and the…