ACORN
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Just scanning through the listings a see TCM is showing “The Story of GI Joe” tonight at 8:00 PM. Setting my DVR since I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.
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Heads up! Ernie Pyle movie
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27 Man
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It’s a good one. I always like Robert Mitchum.
Targets Guy
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Not a bad movie. Worth the watch.
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Ernie Pyle was an Indiana boy who made good, and he remains an American icon in the field of wartime journalism. His style and bravery set the standard that today's war correspondents aspire to, but seldom attain. His easy rapport with the everyday G.I. gave him an insight into their feelings and attitudes...their hopes of getting back home alive...and he wrote about them as no one ever had before or since. He ate what they ate, he slept where they slept. In my opinion, his work is rivaled only by that of Bill Mauldin, even though Mauldin worked in a different genre.
Sad to say, Ernie Pyle died like the soldiers he wrote about. He did not get back home alive. He was killed in action on April 18, 1945 on the island of Ie Shima, an island just north of Okinawa.
Even more sad, there are people today who don't even know who he was and what he did. When people think of G.I. Joe today, they think of some action toy or a cartoon hero.
He's a man worth remembering.
Sad to say, Ernie Pyle died like the soldiers he wrote about. He did not get back home alive. He was killed in action on April 18, 1945 on the island of Ie Shima, an island just north of Okinawa.
Even more sad, there are people today who don't even know who he was and what he did. When people think of G.I. Joe today, they think of some action toy or a cartoon hero.
He's a man worth remembering.
Faulkner
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Hmm, I never knew there was a movie about him. I'll have to check that out.
VaTom
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Get a copy of "Brave Men" written by Pyle during the war. Published in late 1944. Follows GIs from North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy. Great reading. I keep it on my nightstand and read. It has been republished in paperback.
VaTom
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Saw and spoke with Vietnam war correspondent Joe Galloway last fall of We Were Soldiers..... " fame. He told me Pyle was his inspiration to become a war correspondent.
