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Yahoo News NEW YORK – 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.
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Broadcast journalists — co-workers, competitors, successors — were on hand, including Connie Chung, Bob Schieffer, Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, Dan Rather, Barbara Walters, Charles Gibson, Matt Lauer, Tom Brokaw, Morley Safer and Meredith Vieira. Comedians-actors Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller were also in attendance.
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Chip Cronkite affectionately gave thanks to his father for many things.
"Thanks for rushing to the side of the boat when a boom knocked me overboard. You stood there ready to jump in after me, and then were glad you didn't have to. Thanks for getting ready to take out my appendix yourself with a sharpened spoon on the African plains two days' drive for a hospital. That time I was glad you didn't have to."
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Its wonderful to read the many great things so many had to say about this truly remarkable American. His son's anecdote about the sharpened spoon seems rather wacky and humorous, but really illustrates how much of a devoted father he was. He will be missed.
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