Ernie Pyle 1900 - 1945

[colinhotham]

In the last seven years of my research, Ernie Pyle's name has often been quoted. He was a very special guy and a great war correspondent. You may know this quotation from Ernie but it bears repeating.

 

There is nothing we can do

for the ones beneath the

wooden crosses except to

pause and murmur,'Thanks, pal'

 

I like to think he wrote that on Sicily but I'm not sure. It still applies today. I live in Wootton Bassett where eight coffins containing the bodies of eight dead British soldiers have just passed down the high street!