. i don t know where he was going, so i don t know what i m saying either. it s some event when you have to have someone like me speak at your memorial service. walter was such a good friend. i can t get over it. we met in london when we were both covering the air force. walters was with the united press, and i was with the army newspaper, the stars and stripes. we printed the paper in london, and he sent his stories back. and they would tell us when there was going to be a raid, if you can believe that of the army. these days you re lucky if they ll tell you after they ve had a raid. but walter and i and, oh, three or four other reporters would get on the train and go out to bedford, usually. bedford was the town in england that had five or six air force bases around it, and we would go and then we would split up and we d each go to a base that we liked, and we d write our stories. and then we d go back to the headquarters of the air force, and they had it