There was nothing simple about Bob Simon. Except that he was simply the best. The best writer. The best correspondent. As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of Gatsby, the best of the “whole damn bunch.”
He’d started in Northern Ireland and never seemed to stop. Hurling himself into the breach. Into the pulse. And the pain — time and time again.
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On this sad, senseless day, perhaps it’s best to remember that.
