GLENN TANNER Inklings

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Eighty years ago Friday, during the island fighting in final weeks of World War II, a young U.S. Army corporal named Landon Seidler painted a simple message onto a wooden sign: “At this spot, the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy, Ernie Pyle, 18 April 1945.” The sign was stuck into the roadside ditch on a remote Pacific Island near Okinawa, where earlier, Pyle, perhaps the most beloved war correspondent of his day, had been killed by a burst of Japanese machine gun fire while taking cover...