<p>Lived for 30 years in Buffalo and just spoke to friends and family there. The town is in mourning for its favorite son. I think Tim and maybe the Goo Goo Dolls were the only spokesmen left for a dying city (they had a hit called Broadway and most think it was about New York City but it was the Broadway in Buffalo that runs thru the Polish neighborhood on the east side). All I could think of when I saw Tom Brokaw speaking so wonderfully about his friend is that not only are those that saved the world in WW II (The Greatest Generation as Brokaw wrote about so insightfully) almost gone but ever so quickly even those that knew them. Had a spectacular brother that died in Buffalo a couple of years ago at 53 and can never forget the effect on my parents. To Big Russ (who I have met) I am so sorry for your loss. Read the book Big Russ and Me if you get the chance. Parents should never have to bury their children.</p>