Retired CNN anchor Bernard Shaw says that soon after the Sept. 11 attacks began, he phoned his wife. “She said, ‘Promise me two things: that you will not volunteer to go into work, and if asked, you will say no,” Shaw told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
“I said, ‘I promise.'” He said he received similar pleas from his grown son and daughter. “This business tears the heart out of family life,” Shaw told the newspaper, “and my family has just sacrificed too damn much.”
Shaw said that as he watched last month’s coverage, he did “an awful lot of crying. … For the first time in a nearly 40-year-career, I can give full vent to my emotions and not have to internalize the agony, the depression, the pain.”
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