Great and unexpected AP story today: a photo of the legendary World War II reporter Ernie Pyle (friend of the grunts) taken just after he'd been killed has suddenly appeared. AP's Richard Pyle (no relation) reports: "As far as can be determined, the photograph has never been published. Sixty-three years after Pyle was killed by the Japanese, it has surfaced — surprising historians, reminding a forgetful world of a humble correspondent who artfully and ardently told the story of a war from the foxholes. 'It's a striking and painful image, but Ernie Pyle wanted people to see and understand the sacrifices that soldiers had to make, so it's fitting, in a way, that this photo of his own death ... drives home the reality and the finality of that sacrifice,' said James E. Tobin, a professor at Miami University of Ohio."http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003705984
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