{"id":2061,"date":"2015-04-20T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T00:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2024-11-04T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:26:15","slug":"speaking-of-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/speaking-of-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/speaking-of-patriots\/\" data-text=\"Speaking of Patriots\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>April 18th marked the 70th anniversary of the death of WWII journalist and war correspondent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernie_Pyle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ernie Pyle.<\/a>\u00a0 Most young people know precious little about WWII and probably even less, if anything at all about Ernie Pyle. \u00a0Suffice it to say that he was a popular journalist of his time, a man committed to something larger than himself, and \u00a0a soldier&#8217;s friend.<\/p>\n<p>There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/mediaschool.indiana.edu\/erniepyle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">archive of his work<\/a> maintained on the web by the Indiana University School of Journalism. \u00a0One of his more moving columns is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/erniepyle.iu.edu\/wartime-columns\/captain-waskow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Death of Captain Waskow:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>&#8220;In this war I have known a lot of officers who were loved and respected by the soldiers under them. But never have I crossed the trail of any man as beloved as Capt. Henry T. Waskow of Belton, Texas.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Capt. Waskow was a company commander in the 36th Division. He had led his company since long before it left the States. He was very young, only in his middle twenties, but he carried in him a sincerity and gentleness that made people want to be guided by him.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>&#8220;After my own father, he came next,&#8221; a sergeant told me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>&#8220;He always looked after us,&#8221; a soldier said. &#8220;He\u2019d go to bat for us every time.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>&#8220;I\u2019ve never knowed him to do anything unfair,&#8221; another one said.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>I was at the foot of the mule trail the night they brought Capt. Waskow\u2019s body down&#8230;.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You owe it to yourself to <a href=\"https:\/\/erniepyle.iu.edu\/wartime-columns\/captain-waskow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow the link and read the whole thing.<\/a>\u00a0 Pyle was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on the Island of Ie Shima in 1945. \u00a0He is among the few civilians to have been awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purple_Heart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Purple Heart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet April 18th marked the 70th anniversary of the death of WWII journalist and war correspondent Ernie Pyle.\u00a0 Most young people know precious little about WWII and probably even less, if anything at all about Ernie Pyle. \u00a0Suffice it to say that he was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}