2026-11-08 03:04 UTC
After exiting the National Radio Quiet Zone in West Virginia after 20 hours of no internet access, I belatedly learned of the death of one of the state’s former US senators, Jay Rockefeller at the age of 89. I got to know him as an AP correspondent there in the late 1980s. (1/3)
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@newsguyusa@flipboard.social 2026-11-08 03:04
Despite our vast differences in wealth and height (he was a $100+ million richer and a foot taller) we had in common the ability to speak Japanese and working in Japan.(2/3)