05-08-2007, 05:29 PM
To add to that magazine of Ernie's I just received an original copy of his book: Ernie Pyle....this is your war, copyrighted in 1943, published in 1945. I haven't read it yet so I didn't post this in the Books,Magazines category. From the same seller I also got another 1rst edition copy of Up Frontby Bill Mauldin. This was very timely as I had just given my other copy of Bill's book to my childhood best friend for his 55th birthday on May 10th! As kids we played Army nearly every day, using pinecones or dirt clods as hand grenades. Back in the 50's it was still "okay" to let your kids play with military toys and our WWII fathers were our heroes back then, not some Rap star....better stop here!