The Man Who Told America the Truth About D-Day
Jun 6, 2019 09:19:21 #
From NYTimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/magazine/d-day-normandy-75th-ernie-pyle.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190606§ion=topNews
Article about Ernie Pyle, America's war correspondent.
I found this moving and dramatic. As an 8 yr. old, I remember D-Day. God bless those who were there.
Mark
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/magazine/d-day-normandy-75th-ernie-pyle.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190606§ion=topNews
Article about Ernie Pyle, America's war correspondent.
I found this moving and dramatic. As an 8 yr. old, I remember D-Day. God bless those who were there.
Mark
Jun 6, 2019 09:38:46 #
Jun 6, 2019 09:40:55 #
As you said very moving. My paternal uncle was there at D-Day - he was lucky, he lived. It's been said at least a million times, but "Saving Private Ryan" introduction was an eye-opener. Thank you for sharing the article.
Jun 6, 2019 09:49:23 #
Jun 6, 2019 10:29:20 #
rwoodvira wrote:
As you said very moving. My paternal uncle was there at D-Day - he was lucky, he lived. It's been said at least a million times, but "Saving Private Ryan" introduction was an eye-opener. Thank you for sharing the article.
My pleasure. Yes, Private Ryan showed the horror of war!
Mark
Jun 7, 2019 06:15:46 #
markngolf wrote:
From NYTimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/magazine/d-day-normandy-75th-ernie-pyle.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190606§ion=topNews
Article about Ernie Pyle, America's war correspondent.
I found this moving and dramatic. As an 8 yr. old, I remember D-Day. God bless those who were there.
Mark
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/magazine/d-day-normandy-75th-ernie-pyle.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190606§ion=topNews
Article about Ernie Pyle, America's war correspondent.
I found this moving and dramatic. As an 8 yr. old, I remember D-Day. God bless those who were there.
Mark
Saving Private Ryan, probably showed the most realistic bloodbath the US Troops endured. Unbelievable!
Jun 7, 2019 06:31:50 #
As a 6 year old I too remember our family clustered around the radio listening and holding our breath.
Jun 7, 2019 07:06:25 #
I’ve seen the spot on Ie Shima that Ernie Pyle was killed. He was still talked about, at least when I was there in Okinawa from 83-88
Thanks for posting this Great article
Thanks for posting this Great article
Jun 7, 2019 07:11:53 #
Jun 7, 2019 07:59:24 #
Wow stuff...thanks so much for posting. A level of journalism and personal involvement that is quickly disappearing from the modern journalistic landscape, and a powerful reminder of how much was given that day in the quest for freedoms we have today. 
Jun 7, 2019 08:08:02 #
Jun 7, 2019 08:21:13 #
I was there on the bluff overlooking Omaha Beach a few years ago. Just standing there, looking down at the scene where so many young men charged ashore brought tears to my eyes. I am a two tour Vietnam vet, but I never experienced anything like what they went through. God bless them!
Jun 7, 2019 08:33:29 #
Standing on the beach at Omaha Beach must be a powerful experience, even to this day. Another powerful experience is Pearl Harbor National Museum, the Arizona, and standing at the edge of the harbor, imagining the Japanese planes flying over for the first strike.
Jun 7, 2019 08:50:02 #
we owe our freedom to all those men. But 1 thing that is never talked about, because of the bravery of those men who gave their lives for the raid at Pointe Du Hoc The raid was unessary, those men died for nothing as it was known that the Germans removed the big guns. Those guns were a risk because they occupide the high ground over 2 of the landing beaches. B ut they wern't there as they had been moved. This was known, but the attack was ordered anyway.
Jun 7, 2019 08:51:38 #
They are both powerful experiences, but what makes Normandy different is 160,000 young men from the USA, Britain, Canada and France going into "harms way" to liberate Europe from the Nazis. Pearl Harbor was
a sneak attack by the Japanese where military and civilians were victims of the attack.
a sneak attack by the Japanese where military and civilians were victims of the attack.
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