Wow. Ernie Pyle was the real deal. I have to believe he would have approved of having this picture published.
I agree and the article suggested such.
Now one has to log-in to read the article. Sorry about that.
His book, “Brave Men” is the best war journal I have ever read; simple, honest, and true. He lived the life and faced the same real danger the the grunts faced. He puts the current crop of lobby bar ‘reporters’ from CNN to shame. A brave man who died a soldiers death.
I don’t know if he would want his family to see it. But as a journalist, his job was to capture the truth of the moment, and that photo captures that moment worth far more than the proverbial thousand words.