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speedracer120
08-07-2005, 11:39 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050808/ap_on_en_tv/obit_jennings

Sucks. I like watching his broadcasts.
Grimm
08-08-2005, 12:55 AM
His shoes will be awefully hard to fill.

RIP Peter Jennings.
Hiro
08-08-2005, 04:22 AM
Sucks. I like watching his broadcasts.

:stupid:

this definitely came as a shock this morning.
Kevster
08-08-2005, 04:30 AM
He lost the fight? Damn. :(

He was the only one I liked watching for national news for the last 5 years or so.
Fas-ligand
08-08-2005, 05:48 AM
Did anyone else get an interrupted news flash on the radio about this?
nickel
08-08-2005, 05:53 AM
He lost the fight? Damn. :(

He was the only one I liked watching for national news for the last 5 years or so.
yeh, it only took 6 months from diagnosis to death. lung cancer can be brewing for quite sometime before it's caught.

i saw a dedication to Jennings on the news this morning. it showed the clip where he told the world he had lung cancer. in it he said he had been a smoker, but had quit 20 years ago. regrettably he said he did smoke again through the happenings of 9/11.

smoking has such a grip on people. it is truly evil. even after quitting for 20 years the temptation is there all the time to resume.
Yossarian
08-08-2005, 07:12 AM
He lost the fight? Damn. :(

He was the only one I liked watching for national news for the last 5 years or so.
:stupid:

just something about him that was enjoyable to watch
Gothic Girl
08-08-2005, 07:15 AM
yeh, it only took 6 months from diagnosis to death. lung cancer can be brewing for quite sometime before it's caught.

i saw a dedication to Jennings on the news this morning. it showed the clip where he told the world he had lung cancer. in it he said he had been a smoker, but had quit 20 years ago. regrettably he said he did smoke again through the happenings of 9/11.

smoking has such a grip on people. it is truly evil. even after quitting for 20 years the temptation is there all the time to resume.
Yep, smoking sucks. I've been a smoker more than I haven't in my life. It's amazing how hard it is to quit. I've heard that it's worse than heroine, but I don't know that one first hand! My landlady is in her early 50s and was just diagnosed with emphasema (sp?) and has to be on a continuous flow of oxygen. In the past couple months she's been in the hospital more than she's been home. And she was a 4 pack a day smoker.
jstreet
08-08-2005, 11:08 AM
I was so sad to hear this. He was an anchor the year I was born, and I suspect he was on in my house every day since; certainly through all of my life as I grew up. I watched him from as early as I can remember until the day he went off the air.

Like everyone's said, he had something about him. It's a sad day.
Markel
08-08-2005, 11:18 AM
just something about him that was enjoyable to watch
:stupid: He didn't seem to have the arrogance that many of the top anchormen have.
RIVERWIDOW
08-08-2005, 11:53 AM
:stupid: He didn't seem to have the arrogance that many of the top anchormen have.

:cry: I think you can attribute this to the fact that he was a high school dropout. He literally came from the bottom up. He worked his *ss off to become an educated man. If only he had been as educated about the hazards of cigs. He really did seem to be a nice guy-next-door type. :angel: RIP
cadetevon
08-08-2005, 12:50 PM
:stupid: He didn't seem to have the arrogance that many of the top anchormen have.


Yip. That and he was hot. (Showing her love of older men...and her own age to boot).