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Andy Rooney confirmed died at 92

After the war, Mr. Rooney wrote books about being an air gunner, a history of Stars and Stripes, and in one of his strongest journalistic reports, an account of U.S. occupying forces in Germany that criticized American servicemen for abusing German citizens. Check Photos Andy Rooney Dies

A native of Albany, N.Y., Mr. Rooney worked briefly in his teens as a copyboy for the Albany Knickerbocker News. He was drafted into the Army while attending Colgate University, and on the strength of his journalistic experience was assigned to work for the GI newspaper Stars and Stripes.