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Maybe you read Ernie Pyle's story in your newspaper about how he and Wert and Capa went along with an infantry company assigned to clean up a Nazi pocket: "A young lieutenant came up and said; 'Want to go along?" I certainly didn't but when you are invited, what can you do? So I said, 'Sure.' And so did Wertenbaker and Capa. Wert never seems nervous and Capa is notorious for his daring. Fine company for me to be keeping...
...Future of a Conscience. Last week, after a breather at a Normandy press camp in the rear, Ernie Pyle-who will be 44 on Aug. 3-was preparing to go up to the battle line again. He dreaded it more than ever. To a fellow correspondent he confided: "The thought of it gives me the willies. Instead of getting used to it, I become less used to it as the years go by. With me it seems to have had a cumulative effect. I am much more afraid of a plane overhead now than I was during the London blitz...
With the premonition of death that haunts him now, Ernie Pyle is not doing much personal postwar planning. But if he lives to resume his U.S. roving, as both he and his wife hope to do, he will be one man with a future clearly cut out for him. Everywhere he goes he will find old friends of the foxholes, and it will be his job to report to the nation how justly and successfully they are being received back into civilian life, how they feel about the America they have come back to, what they think...
Thus, in his unique way, he is almost sure to be a sort of national conscience. He may be that even if he is killed in battle. For if Ernie Pyle should die tomorrow, as well he may, it would still be a long time before Americans forgot Ernie Pyle...
...Last week the War Department adopted a suggestion long urged by Columnist Pyle that it revive the practice of awarding a sleeve stripe for each six months of overseas service. Congress has passed the so-called "Ernie Pyle Bill" to raise G.I. pay $10 for combat service...