The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“postwar America. He learned the insurance business by day and braille by night. Before long the VA found him a job with an elderly… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
