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To: aladin who wrote (87023)	11/18/2004 3:06:44 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793555

Looking at some of the articles he wrote from that site, I'd say he'd think, and say, that they were all indeed, heros, in every sense of the word. journalism.indiana.edu For instance, Ernie Pyle reported this: The 1st Infantry Division is an example of what our American units can be after they have gone through the mill of experience. Those boys did themselves proud in the semifinals. Everybody speaks about it. Our casualties included few taken prisoners. All the other casualties were wounded or died fighting. "They never gave an inch," a general says. "They died right in their foxholes." I heard of a high British officer who went over this battlefield just after the action was over. American boys were still lying dead in their foxholes, their rifles still grasped in firing position in their dead hands. And the veteran English soldier remarked time and again, in a sort of hushed eulogy spoken only to himself: "Brave men. Brave men." Source: Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches, edited by David Nichols, pp. 103-05. Pictures courtesy of The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana