“He had conventional (wartime) experiences, but he found the universal in the specific, and the specific in the universal. That’s what makes his work so timeless.”
I’ve beatenside of a T-Wall in Iraq, instead ofside. A mundane near-miss during a summer 16 years ago, when I was a reporter embedded with the 82nd Airborne Division. I can listen to the mortar’s incoming rustle on the digital recording I didn’t know was running. I can hear the shotgun blast of the explosion and the shrapnel and my sharp breath. I can hear my first word a few minutes afterwards: “Fuck.
Chrisinger tracks Pyle’s career across North Africa, Italy, and France, ending at a ridgeline on the Japanese island of Iejima, where he was killed on April 18, 1945. Chrisinger visited many of the locations, observing changes of people, politics, and time. Pyle’s body is in Plot D-109 of Honolulu’s Punchbowl Cemetery, his name memorialized with 240,000 war dead on Okinawa’s Cornerstone of Peace memorial.
Marine Staff Sergeant Elwood P. Smith and a Marine officer converse with the late Ernie Pyle when he visited this base on Ulithi in the Western Carolines.There are no writing lessons from Pyle, despite his wartime output of 700,000 words—and many more in a reporting career dating to 1923. As Chrisinger writes, “Ernie never shared the intimate details of his writing process.
Chrisinger’s full excerpt is 193 words in eight sentences. “Only 94 unique words. No passive voice, no long noun phrases—all those clumsy writing crutches so many lesser writers use that gum up their prose and raise doubts… about the sincerity and authenticity of the storytelling,” Chrisinger writes.
Pyle also includes that two Klansmen tried to “pump” him afterward, and “asked the local reporter what he was going to write about the meeting and he replied that he would simply tell what he had heard and seen.” “I want to give a piece of meaning to all the bloodshed we have shown on the screen,” Miller told Pyle. “The war is about something. Because I don’t believe this war has no meaning.”Ernie Pyle talks to Division Commander, Major General Graves B. Erskine, commanding general of the 3rd Marine Division.The Story of G.J. Joe
It’s not a lie if you believe it, but in his self-lacerating letters home to his editor Lee Miller, or his wife Jerry, he did not believe it all the time, either about the war or about himself.
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