Friday June 13, 2008 will be remembered as one of the saddest days of my life.  Learning that Tim Russert had died at the NBC news office two days before Father’s Day and very shortly after his son’s graduation causes me more sadness then I would have ever dreamed possible for a man that I did not know personally.
 
While I have always felt bad for the families of public people when they died I have never felt such a personal loss.  When Princess Diana died I was sad for her sons, my heart broke seeing Nancy Reagan kiss the coffin when President Ronald Reagan was buried, and I was moved to tears when former Arizona Cardinals safety Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan because of friendly fire.  However, none of them affected me personally like the death of Tim Russert.
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