Episode 71B- The 80th Anniversary of Ernie Pyles Death

Ernie Pyle died APril 18, 1945 and CEO of JLJ Media, James Lott Jr has a few words to say.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
April eighteenth, nineteen forty five, Ernest Pyle died in Japan.
Now we're at April eighteen, twenty twenty five, it is
eighty years, the eightieth anniversary of his death. I can

(00:23):
be this with eighty years since nineteen forty five, I
wasn't around. I came twenty five years later in nineteen
sixty nine. That's when I was born. And you know,
we we do this podcast which you're listening to, thirty
pile World two Museum podcast and here on JLJ Media,

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and I.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Have learned so much.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
As I've mentioned, I've guest hosted come you know Doug
hastert our main host, and shout out to Doug what
a great job he does.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I kind of guest host here and there.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
And even though we come out every other Tuesday, it's
a it's a every other Tuesday thing.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
The show is very successful for us. This is a special,
just a little special.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I wanted to I wanted to commemorate this huge honor
on the day of his death. So that's why this
episode is happening. It's it's like a bonus episode. And
I was going to do audio video, but I was like,
now I'm just gonna do audio because this show is
mostly mainly audio. I've done a couple of video versions

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over at JLJ Media on YouTube, but I just normally
it's his audio. So I'm just gonna do audio because
you guys are my audio listeners who listened to this show.
I have learned so much Battery Pile that I admire him.
So I've never met him, never met anybody in his family,
but having gone to Indiana and going to his going

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to many of his family and his areas where stones handstones,
the park, the rest park, everything, going to the museum
myself havn't been there several times, I've gained an extra
appreciation for him. I'm a person who works in journalism.

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I have a journalism degree. I work in journalist. I
work in journalism and press and content creation all whatever
names you want to use. And I do a lot
of interview shows and spotlights, and I am my thing
which I can relate to Ernie Piles so much is
I'm always about the human side of life, the human

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side of a singer, the human side of an actor,
the human side of a bricklayer, the human side of
a construction. Where I always want to go for the
human side of people, and that was Ernie Pyle. He
humanized the war by focusing on the people actually in

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the war, participating in.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
The war, and you know, and made of them dying
in the war.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
He focused on the soldiers, the actually the flip the flip,
the people on the ground, and showcased and spotlighted them,
not the big generals and all that big stuff, but
the folks who are actually doing the fighting. Like just
if you just if this is your first time listening
to me or this podcast, because I'm on it. She

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got on other episodes we talked about how he focused
on the on the soldiers, sometimes even including their addresses,
you know, their family names. It really did give a
personal touch to what was going on. He won award

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we do all this stuff for it deservely so, and
I'm just thinking, you know, eighty years after his death,
and that's I'm not ready piled at all. I didn't
fight any wars or anything, and it's very military, but
I think it's very cool that we have a connection
through humanity. I also believe and on this channel, Jail

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j we we're very strong opparents of this. We never tried,
we never forget our ancestors. We never get who came
before us. We always carry them with us and around us,
and we you know, we seriously do what we can.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
To make sure no one forgets about them. And we
have many.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Shows on this that we know we have in various ways.
We always about somebody in the past. We're not stuck there,
but not that at all. But it's great things to learn.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
For the past. You can take with you.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Philosophies had philosophies, get to know what they are, and
maybe they match with yours or aligned with yours. That's
what's amazing, too, right, that I can relate to someone
that I've never met who died at forty five years old.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
To me, that's so young.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I'm turning fifty six next month. I'm twelve years older
than him, you know, at the time of his death.
I have kids in their late thirties who are like
six seven years younger than him. I can't imagine their
lives we were at forty five, But I have to imagine.
I don't know him, didn't know him obviously, but things

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I've read, I read some stuff, but I just imagine
he loved what he did.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's probably why his work was so good. There's that
lesson for all of us like it is.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
So I, James Lott Junior, see you on founder of
jail J Media, on behalf of jail J Media, and
and on behalf of Doug Hesse and Ashcreuz Creek Productions.
We salute Ernie Pyle today and his achievements, his accomplishments,
his wonderments. I thinking for his service and his style

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of and his style of journalism.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
We sell about that today. On April eighteenth,