Author Topic: Ernie Pyle's death (Read 457 times)

Frodo · « **on:** February 18, 2008, 10:38:54 AM »

http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2008/feb/04/photo-world-war-ii-correspondent-ernie-pyles-death/

http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2008/feb/04/photo-world-war-ii-correspondent-ernie-pyles-death/

Always wondered exactly how he died. Interesting article.

Frodo

Hmm link works from this end, but slow at times.

texasmom · « **Reply #1 on:** February 18, 2008, 11:05:24 AM »

error on the link page.
i'm one of Ernie's best adoring fans.

I'll definitely check this post again later for link correction.

Airscrew · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2008, 11:11:33 AM »

I couldnt get to the article, but I read something a couple weeks ago where they said someone had found Erin Pyle's death photo. They had written how he was killed and I thought that for someone who had as much combat experience has he had it was just a very unlucky way to go, All he had to do was keep his head down.

Frodo · « **Reply #3 on:** February 18, 2008, 11:15:23 AM »

Seems to be fine from my end, but a little slow. The story is from the Albuquerque Tribune, and there is a link from the front page.

Frodo

MiloMorai · « **Reply #4 on:** February 18, 2008, 11:31:55 AM »

I saw this a week or so ago.

The link works just fine.

texasmom · « **Reply #5 on:** February 18, 2008, 11:52:24 AM »

I was able to get into it, thanks for the link. Everything he wrote was amazing. He was absolutely top notch.

Frodo · « **Reply #6 on:** February 18, 2008, 12:23:42 PM »

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Originally posted by texasmom
I was able to get into it, thanks for the link. Everything he wrote was amazing. He was absolutely top notch.

Really too bad he did not survive. Can you imagine what he would have written, after some reflection on what he witnessed?

On another note.... Does texasdad have connections to HTC?

Frodo

texasmom · « **Reply #7 on:** February 18, 2008, 01:36:01 PM »

I can't even tell you how much I admire Ernie Pyle. I love our soldiers more than anything else in the whole world. Every time I read anything he wrote while he was with them, I felt like I was standing right there with him watching those men.

What a tremendous gift he had to be able to bring you right to the point where he was at, to see what he saw, hear what he heard, and feel what he felt. Just amazing. I don't think I've ever read anything more descriptive and enclosing as the things he wrote ~ ever.

And no, txdad isn't associated with HTC in any other way than being a customer.

Yeager · « **Reply #8 on:** February 18, 2008, 01:55:34 PM »

His death photo exemplifies the stark reality of human warfare. To be so alive one moment and so dead the next.

A truly great American, writer and a compassionate human being who wanted to suffer the same hardships as his beloved soldiers, to truly convey their experience and sacrifice to the people who remained back on the homefront.

~~Ernie Pyle~~

Pooh21 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 18, 2008, 02:42:01 PM »

There was another couple of pics floating around that are like that.They show two laughing guys over a .30 cal. MG. One has a hat with earflaps,30 seconds and 1 sniper later, earflap hat man is down.

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 18, 2008, 05:18:39 PM »

If he were alive, he'd be smeared for illustrating the gruesome nature and senselessness of war by the right.

He'd also be smeared for trying to glorify war, by the left. It's better he died when he did. This way neither side can adopt, or indict him.

It's too bad we have pool reporters. Censorship sucks.

rpm · « **Reply #11 on:** February 18, 2008, 05:57:31 PM »

What we need is more reporters like Ernie that tell the soldiers story, not the story the government wants told. I don't think the assumption he would be smeared is correct at all.

There were a few during the invasion of Iraq that lived up to his standard, unfortunately they were quickly shuffled to obscurity.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #12 on:** February 18, 2008, 07:30:39 PM »

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Originally posted by rpm
What we need is more reporters like Ernie that tell the soldiers story, not the story the government wants told. I don't think the assumption he would be smeared is correct at all.

There were a few during the invasion of Iraq that lived up to his standard, unfortunately they were quickly shuffled to obscurity.

If you search, you can read the soldier's stories, as they tell them. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of soldier's blogs all over the Internet.

cpxxx · « **Reply #13 on:** February 19, 2008, 09:41:28 AM »

Fascinating really. He looks so peaceful but it emphasises the randomness and waste of war.

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Originally posted by Pooh21
There was another couple of pics floating around that are like that.They show two laughing guys over a .30 cal. MG. One has a hat with earflaps,30 seconds and 1 sniper later, earflap hat man is down.

That was a sequence taken by the very famous photographer Rober Capa. I still remember the impact it had on me when I first saw it as a young teenager. Removed a few illusions I had about the glory of war I had at the time.

Famously he landed with the troops at Omaha beach on D-day and took 106 photos. But an error by the developer in New York destroyed all but 11 of them.

http://newcentrist.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/american-soldier-killed-by-german-snipers.jpg

He was killed in Indochina in 1954 by a landmine.