Ernie Pyle
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By: Jenny Trembath
March 20, 2000
Ernie Plye
When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of Ernie Pyle in
the final days of World War II, Americans spoke of him in the
same breath as they had Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the
loss of him was as great as the loss of the warti ....
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.... enjoyed tasks
at hand: raising chickens and produce, caring for her family
and serving the neighbors. Pyle describes her, “She thrived on
action, she would rather milk than sew; rather plow than bake”
(Tobin 6).
Through school Pyle loved to write. During high school he
was reporter, then editor, then editor in chief for his high
school newspaper. When he graduated high school, he too was
caught up in the “patriotic fever” of the nation upon America’s
entry into WWI (Whitman 2). ....
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