Pyle not dead – lives forever, senator says
WASHINGTON (UP) – Ernie Pyle’s senators paid tribute to him today.
Sen. Raymond E. Willis (R-Indiana) reminded the Senate that Pyle was born and reared in Indiana.
“Indiana,” Sen. Willis said, “is proud to claim Ernie Pyle as our noblest contribution to the cause of the preservation of freedom.”
Sen. Carl A. Hatch (D-New Mexico) from the state in which Mr. Pyle maintained his home – at Albuquerque – claimed him, too.
“Ernie Pyle is not dead,” Sen. Hatch said. “He was not killed by Japanese bullets. He shall live wherever the story of brave fighting men is told anywhere in the world.”
But though Mr. Pyle was born in Indiana and lived in New Mexico, he was claimed by everybody.
Everywhere in the Capitol, secretaries, elevator boys, policemen as well as lawmakers, were talking about Ernie Pyle. An elevator boy said: “You know, the servicemen would have elected him President.”