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May 31, 2023

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Carolyn Liesy

I read The Death of Captain Waskow. Very moving. Thanks for sharing Ernie Pyle.
I knew his name but had not read anything he had written.
My best to you,
Carolyn

Paul A Tamburello, Jr aka pt at large

I found this a few minutes ago...not the fog of war but the fatigue of war experienced by the 'goddam infantry', for lack of a better word, a term of admiration Pyle used to describe the infantrymen who've been on the march for 4 days.

https://erniepyle.iu.edu/wartime-columns/gd-infantry.html

Paul A Tamburello, Jr aka pt at large

Thank you, Carolyn, within a few hundred words pounded out on his rickety typewriter, Pyle captures moments with prose the equivalent of poetry.

Bill Pignato

Hi Paul

Thanks for passing on. My father had shared with me a story that Ernie Pyle was on the ship that he was on in WWII. He told me he had a pile of Boston Globe’s his mother apparently sent him. Ernie Pyle saw them and asked he could read them. I think he gave them back to my Dad.

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