The Man Who Told America the Truth About D-Day

I am very thankful for Ernie Pyle, he served our country as well as any soldier ever could.

“Yesterday a sand snake crawled by just outside my tent door, and for the first time in my life I looked upon a snake not with a creeping phobia but with a sudden and surprising feeling of compassion. Somehow I pitied him, because he was a snake instead of a man. And I don't know why I felt that way, for I feel pity for all men too, because they are men.

It may be that the war has changed me, along with the rest. It is hard for anyone to analyze himself. I know that I find more and more that I wish to be alone, and yet contradictorily I believe I have a new patience with humanity that I've never had before. When you've lived with the unnatural mass cruelty that mankind is capable of inflicting upon itself, you find yourself dispossessed of the faculty for blaming one poor man for the triviality of his faults. I don't see how any survivor of war can ever be cruel to anything, ever again.”
- Ernie Pyle

In 1947 the Albuquerque City Council accepted Pyle's last home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a memorial to the late war correspondent. Since 1948 the former residence, known as the Ernie Pyle Library, has served as the first branch of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System. The library branch "houses a small collection of adult and children's books, as well as Pyle memorabilia and archives." The Ernie Pyle House/Library was designated as a National Historic Landmark on September 20, 2006.
Ernie Pyle House and Library located at 900 Girard Boulevard SE in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This was the home of war correspondent Ernie Pyle and is now a branch library of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System.

From Wikipedia.