I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog...

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.