ANDY ROONEY

Last night Andy Rooney said "Good-bye" to us on 60 Minutes.   He was one of my favorite people.   He said it like he saw it.  I'm going to miss that old codger. 

I had heard some of the stories he shared last night but many I had not.   I knew he was a correspondent in WWII but he said he really didn't want to go into the service.   He didn't think we should be in that war - until he got to Germany.   He never signed autographs.   Said he couldn't imagine what kind of person would want his signature on a piece of paper.  I particularly liked what he said about Timothy McVeigh after the Oklahoma Bombing.  With great anger in his eyes he said he could kill the B _ _ _ _ _ _ D. 

Most journalists today act like they are auditioning for a play.  The one's we have on the T.V. stations in Nashville get so involved in the stories they are telling I wonder sometimes how they get away with it.  Andy just told the story.   Oh yes, sometimes he got really angry but that was what made him so special to me.

He told of some of the people he worked with.  Walter Cronkite, Morley Safer and others along the way.   How close he was to his friends in the war and how many close friends he lost.

He closed his program by saying if he could do anything over he'd like to be on a T.V. show like 60 minutes to share his views and get paid for it.   Pretty neat to have worked for a company as long as he has and still LOVE it.

ANYWAY...I'm going to miss seeing him.