Andy Rooney is gone.

In this age of the Kardashians and Jersey Shore, we have lost a man who has weathered the best and worst of this nation for 70 plus years and gave us an insight of ourselves, with a sense of droll humor.

So long Andy.

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In February 1943, flying with the Eighth Air Force, he was one of six correspondents who flew on the first American bombing raid over Germany.[5] Later, he was one of the first American journalists to visit the Nazi concentration camps near the end of World War II, and one of the first to write about them. During a segment on Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, Rooney confessed that he had been opposed to World War II because he was a pacifist. He recounted that what he saw in those concentration camps made him ashamed that he had opposed the war and permanently changed his opinions about whether "just wars" exist.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Rooney

I, for one, really liked the wrap up of Sixty Minutes with a little bit of humor. He made us face ourselves. Thanks, Andy. :[[

Didn't always agree with Andy, but always enjoyed what he had to say and the way he said it. He was a gem.