Andy Rooney is gone.

[Bigb23]

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.

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.

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

[Bigb23]

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

[Ray1936]

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