Death photo of famed WWII reporter Ernie Pyle surfaces 63 years after he was killed in Pacific.

http://www.startribune.com/15157356.html ^ | February 3, 2008

[El Gato]

Did you notice he was 81 when he passed, yet had a 16 yr. old son?

And had a "former wife" rather than a widow.

But 65 is not all that an advanced age.

Fred Thompson is 66, and was also 64 or 65 when his youngest son (Samuel) was born.

Then there was Strom Thurman. He was born in December 1902, his oldest child (born out of wedlock) was born in 1925, when he was 22, to his family's 16 y/o Negro maid. (He was a staunch segregationist for most of his career). His youngest child was born in 1976, when Thurman was 73 or 74. His first wife, with whom he had no children was 24 years his junior, his second wife, with whom he had four children (for a total of five) was 43 years his junior. She was 23, and a former Miss South Carolina, he was 66. So all of his kids, save the first one, were conceived when he was 68 or older. He was separated, but never divorced from his second wife, after they had been married for 23 years.

[El Gato]

I'm sure his teenage son is real proud of that viagra'ed up, wrinkled, selfish old prune.

Viagra was not available 22 years ago. (he died 5 years ago, and the son would have been conceived about 17 years before that.)

[gate2wire]

Thank you for that post.

[Smokin' Joe]

I had to smile at the ‘Breakfast in bed’ one, too. Mauldin was the real deal, too.

[gate2wire]

“While Ernie Pyle was NOT buried at Arlington, he was interred at the Cemetery of The Pacific (The Punchbowl) near Honolulu, very near my old commanding officer.”

Thank you for your service.

[FrdmLvr]

That’s pretty cool. What a great story.

[gate2wire]

“Brave men all, the world is a better place because of their courage under fire and the weights they had to heft during, and after, their travails.”

Exactly. My grandmother had 4 blue star flags in her window.
No one talked about what they did. Just this summer, did one of my Uncles(Marine, 5th Amphib) start with some stories. Unbelievable.

God Bless them.

[Izzy Dunne]

Almost looks as if it is posed, perhaps to be used in the event that he did get killed? Wouldn't put it past him. :)

That's what I thought. Nobody falls down with their hands folded, and who would pose a dead body for a photo?

[WorkingClassFilth]

I think I remember that story. He was being taken down off the side of a mountain in Italy, I believe. He went up with a supply column of mules. I think Pyle was under fire during that, too. Seem to remember something about a German emplacement that had them under observation across a valley and on a ridge but it was unassailable by artillery. He was an ideal reporter - and American in every respect. Too bad that ‘profession’ is so larded with Marxists, globalists and down right morons today.

[Polybius]

That's what I thought. Nobody falls down with their hands folded, and who would pose a dead body for a photo?

Alexander Gardner.

One of the most widely recognized and often published photographs on the subject of Gettysburg, this melancholy view of a dead Confederate youth laying behind a stone barricade at Devil's Den was taken on July 5 or 6, 1863 by photographer Alexander Gardner and two of associates. .... This scene was actually posed by Gardner and his associates who carried the corpse into this position and dressed up the scene with relics of war scattered about the area. A final touch was the rifle standing against the barricade, placed by Gardner who had used the weapon in previous photos. Gardner's assistants, James Gibson and his chief photographer Timothy O'Sullivan, took two photographs of the scene, the clearest of which is shown here. They then moved on to photograph other scenes in the adjacent "Slaughter Pen", leaving the body in the sharpshooter's nest.

In Ernie Pyle's case, his buddies probably put him in a "rest in peace" position after he was killed and somebody with the camera then later took the photo.

[El Gato]

In Ernie Pyle's case, his buddies probably put him in a "rest in peace" position after he was killed and somebody with the camera then later took the photo

That's possible, but did they also patch up the exit wound and put on a fresh uniform? A machine gun round in the left temple is going to make an exit wound somewhere on the right side of the head, the side visible to the camera, and there will be a lot of blood, and "other stuff". I see no exit wound and no blood or stuff.

It is barely possible that the exit wound just isn't visible, and that he had just put on a clean coat and that the blood drained away somewhere also not visible. But it doesn't seem likely.