[canalabamian]

Nice essay. Thanks for sharing it. Ernie Pyle probably did as much as any man to communicate the life and death of the Infantryman. Mauldin, too.

[wastoute]

I loved the Mauldin cartoons growing up.

Some of my favorites, one was “I can’t get any lower, Wille, me buttons is in the way!”. Another one, they are clinging to boulders on a cliff and some one yells, “Get Down!”

[minnesota_bound]

Ernie Pyle was shot dead by a Japanese sniper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Pyle