Tom Brokaw is crying.
After interviewing Nancy Chamberlin, the mother of a marine pilot killed yesterday, he broke down on air and had to take a moment to collect himself.
I have to wonder if this happened during the Big One, or 'Nam, where the loss of life was much, much greater. Brokaw is the personification of our country's losing the connection to the realities of war: men die, often in great numbers. We don't like it, but we accept it as the price of freedom.
Crying over the death of each professional soldier and trying to wring every ounce of emotional blood from interviewing their mothers is not consistent with how we handle the greatest sacrifice our men make.
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