To newsreader TOM BROKAW

[Expecting Rain]

18. Tom Brokaw was more than a "newsreader," he was the managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years

and wrote some fine books including "The Greatest Generation," a generation that included people like my dad who volunteered to fight fascism and survived the war by a miracle rescue at sea when his fighter plane went down in a typhoon. For that generation slandered on on this forum pisses me off.

As to Latinos, many have conservative values and I can tell you from one who resides in Los Angeles that you'd better watch out for the inroads ultra-conservative Protestant/charismatic/Pentecostal/Evangelical movements are having in the Mexican and (more strongly) Central American communities.

The right-wing is making its play through store-front churches that are evolving into mega-churches, and ones with clear political agendas that are not favorable to us.