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8/20/05
Thanks so much for this link! I watched the whole thing. It was fabulous too see Peter get that Murrow honor and hear him speak and take questions. I too, noticed he got quite parched within 30 minutes or so and began coughing and then he had a bad spell until someone sent him some water and a cough drop to the podium. I began to listen to his voice closer after that and maybe it was hindsight, but it seemed to be "weak" in places. It wasn't the BOLD, yet quiet Peter that I came to know and love. I think I just became complacent and got used to him sounding the way he was everynight instead of the stronger voiced man of say, two years ago. It made me sad immediately because it snapped me right into the reality that this wasn't the present Peter, this WAS our Peter! He's gone........and while I was watching that at the beginning, for just awhile, I forgot that it wasn't live or that he wasn't with us any longer. I was just so focused on what he was saying! I was "in the moment" with him. Why did he ever have to smoke with the gift of that voice he was given and then the job he had that allowed him to use "his instrument" nightly to talk with all of us? Oh, I'm just sick to be reminded it was all so not necessary for him to die. Not so soon and not like he did. He, and we, deserved better. We all deserved more time to be together at our dinner tables. Thank you again for the link. Lee
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