Walter Cronkite remarries

According to David Letterman, Walter Cronkite remarried one of Carly Simon's sisters. He is an "Overseer" of the National Maritime Historical Society based in Peekskill, NY, where the current governor of New York State was once mayor, and his family had a roadside farmstand. Of course Walter Cronkite is a famous television journalist, commentator and writer. One of my worst memories of him was returning from an "empty" clarinet lesson, off stage at the Wood Road elementary school, Mr. Abrams hadn't showed, and returning with rented "licorice stick" back to Mr. Hoff's class, wondering why the TV was on again (we used to have current event quizzes after the "Today" show news with Frank Blair) only to hear that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas that afternoon. I recall the empty chairs and Mr. Cronkite removing his glasses after having to tell the audience that President Kennedy was dead. A more fond memory of him has to do with an earlier taped and replayed broadcast of the building and inauguration of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a system of locks and dams on the northern border of New York State and Ontario, Canada. Where we once fought each other, (over and over, beginning in the Revolutionary War blowing full-scale into the War of 1812, where the United States Navy actually started, on the Great Lakes, and the invasion of "Toronto" resulted in the invasion of Baltimore, MD and the burning of the White House by the British, inspiring the U.S. National Anthem about Fort McHenry where I've dug for the National Parks Service, and where small skirmishes, and clandestine Irish independence inspired rebellion went on until Canada gained its independence under Queen Victoria, around 1867) we built together a monumental system that creates electric power and allows trade with deep harbor ports around the world from all the lakes in the Great Lakes. The "official" story is replayed with Walter Cronkite's narration, and image there at the Eisenhower Locks, near Massena, NY, of the enormous effort made, much of it in winter, to build the system. I worked in the archaeological testing of some of the properties taken, no longer needed, to be returned to "tax rolls" in the N.Y. jurisdiction by the power authority. I rented 4 wheel drives in nearby Ottawa, Canada (pre-SUV) and we were once thought to be possible "beaver poachers" by a federal wild-life officer, and an impending Canadian gasline survey by others. More recently (he is the voice of Ben Franklin on the animated Revolutionary War retelling, first on PBS and currently on regular TV. Dustin Hoffman is in it too and others) is a letter he wrote to the "N.Y. Times", (I am using it as a bookmark in "Military Organization and Society" by Stanislav Andreski, 1971, with a forward by a noted anthropologist A.R. Radcliffe-Brown). In a letter titled "Military Censorship In the Gulf War" he wrote:

To the Editor: Re "Report Revives Criticism of General's Attack on Iraqis at End of the Persian Gulf War" (news article May 15): The controversy over the actions of Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey's 24th Infantry Division after the cease-fire in the Persian Gulf war points up again the serious fallacy of the Pentagon's censorship policy in that conflict.
That policy severely restricted the right of reporters and photographers to accompany our troops into action, as had been the permitted in all our previous wars. This denial prevented the American people from getting an impartial report on the war.
The American people, whose sons and daughters fought that war and whose money financed it, were denied the information in which they were entitled by the military's restrictive policy. This not only shielded possible military mistakes but also limited reports of individual heroism. As the members of a supposedly democratic government, we lost both ways. WALTER CRONKITE New York, May 15, 2000

I wish him well in his new marriage, and thank him for speaking up on our behalf, when sometimes, we just don't have the facts.