….an old colleague, good reporter and good man died overnight.  Bob Simon of CBS News was killed in a New York City car crash after cheating death many times as a war correspondent.  We were last together at a reunion of old Viet Nam reporters just over a month ago and I’m particularly grateful I was able to express my appreciation for his kindness to my late wife. I met Bob when we were both covering Viet Nam for CBS in 1967-68 and he was still going full-bore at the age of 73 as one of the anchors of 60 Minutes.  It was during an earlier reunion, when my wife left her bed at the…