ERNIE PYLE
WIDOW BANS BIG MEMORIAL NEW "YORK, August 22. Mrs Ernie Pyle, widow of America’s popular war correspondent, who was killed on le Shima, off Okinawa, has asked the promoters of a scheme for a multi-million. dollars park and ceretery memorial in Indiana to abandon the project immediately. The original plan called for a modest 35,000 dollar library in Dina, Pyle’s home town, but the latest scheme is an elaborate park, studded with lakes, in which Pyle’s body would be interred. Mrs. Pyle said the original plan had outgrown reasonable bounds. “The proposal violates everything Ernie was, and he would be horrified and indignant,” she said. “His body is lying on le Shima, where he would wish it to lie with the men he loved. I will never consent to have his body moved.’-’
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 September 1945, Page 2
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