I'm listening to Edward R. Murrow reporting on the D-Day landings. XM Radio's channel 4, the 40's channel, is interrupting their music all day today with reports on the landings at Normandy at the time they happened. It's complete with static, scratches, mike drop-outs, and that funny warbly quality that overseas broadcasts always had in those day. Murrow has quotes from Churchill, DeGaulle, and even French and English pilots about the events. There are now reports that their have been allied landings on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands—oh, Murrow is over and now we are back at "Columbia" and CBS World News headquarters, and here is Douglas Edwards. I remember Edwards doing the evening news way, way back.

Imagine the families with children or other relatives and friends in the European Theatre listening tensely to these reports, knowing their loved ones might be involved and possibly might already be dead or wounded. No on-the-spot cameras, no cell phones, no World Wide Web reports. Just listening, waiting, praying...

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. . . . . noted and logged by Linda at 12:45:00 PM

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