I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

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I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.