To: MNJohnnie
Thanks for the posting. I had never read Ernie Pyle's columns before. He was a poet.
Carolyn
8 posted on
06/06/2008 10:29:58 AM PDT by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: CDHart
In this column I want to tell you what the opening of the second front in this one sector entailed, so that you can know and appreciate and forever be humbly grateful to those both dead and alive who did it for you. Rest in peace Erine Pyle. Well done.
10 posted on
06/06/2008 10:31:45 AM PDT by
MNJohnnie
(http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
To: CDHart
"He was a poet."
Yes he was. Proud to say he was a Hoosier, too. All in all, a great American...
12 posted on
06/06/2008 10:36:10 AM PDT by
Hegemony Cricket
(Friends with umbrellas are outstanding in the rain.)
To: CDHart
If you haven’t read Brave Men, go order it right now.
15 posted on
06/06/2008 10:48:45 AM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(<===Non-bitter, Gun-totin', Typical White American)
To: CDHart; All
Oh, and further, Michael Yon is our generation’s Ernie Pyle. I’ve been saying that for a while, so I figure I should give Yon some recognition in an Ernie Pyle thread.
17 posted on
06/06/2008 10:50:18 AM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(<===Non-bitter, Gun-totin', Typical White American)
To: CDHart
What makes Ernie’s comments throughout the war outstanding today...against the poor journalism that we get day in and day out...is that he wrote everything like a letter to his parents. There was a description of how things were going...a guy’s feelings...his fears...what accomplishments a guy had done by age 19. I’ve probably read around thirty of his columns....and they all seem like a regular guy just trying to describe a very special moment in his life....and he did this every single day. We need more Ernies today.
To: CDHart
I know I am pretty much preaching to the choir, here, but if you can, obtain a copy of “Brave Men”, by Ernie Pyle.
Very powerful.
I have a first edition copy that was rescued by my father from ignominously being thrown out by a local branch of our Detroit Public Library.
38 posted on
06/07/2010 9:01:33 AM PDT by
gigster
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