11-14-2005, 08:43 AM
I'm sorry if this post is one I put on this website before but it goes with the present thread.
Ernie Pyle landed in Sicily with the US Seventh Army in July 1943 and reported on the role they played in the 38 days of Operation Husky. He was one of the foremost WW2 war correspondents and 60 plus years later is still talked of.
He was killed in the Pacific in April 1945.
War graves had a deep effect on him and he wrote:
There is nothing we can do
for the ones beneath the
wooden crosses except to
pause and murmur, 'Thanks, pal'
That will never lose it's meaning and although the graves now have headstones it expresses my feelings about those Brave Men.
Colin
