How was Walter Cronkite remembered at his funeral?
Walter Cronkite was remembered as a great newsman, sailor, friend and father during Thursday’s funeral for the CBS anchor. “I was often asked, what he’s really like? And I would always answer, `He’s just the way you hope he is,'” said Mike Ashford, a Cronkite friend of more than 30 years and one of the speakers. Another speaker, longtime CBS newsman and “60 Minutes” commentator Andy Rooney, recalled meeting Cronkite when they both were in England covering World War II. “You get to know someone pretty well in a war,” said Rooney. “I just feel so terrible about Walter’s death that I can hardly say anything,” he admitted, and excused himself. The remarkably intimate, even homey ceremony was witnessed by a near-capacity crowd at the enormous St. Bartholomew’s Church in midtown Manhattan, where the Cronkite family has worshipped for years. Broadcast journalists — co-workers, competitors, successors — were on hand, including Connie Chung, Bob Schieffer, Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, Dan Rath
