Andy Rooney (RE: His and Studs Terkel's presence at the Elbe.

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Weird. I read Rooney's obit here and then double-checked by reading the NYT's and CBS obits.

I had always thought of Rooney's claim to fame being his being present and witnessing (with Studs Terkel) the initial meeting between the Soviet and Allied armies along the Elbe (near Torgau in what was recently East Germany) near the end of WWII conducted by small units of infantry that just found each other. He wrote the article for the newspapers that made the end of the war a realistic possibility for all that read it. (Or so the history had it)

None of those obits made any mention. Is that little tidbit not even so much as a footnote now?