Here Is Your War

Words at war presents, Here is your war by Ernie Pyle. I've written anything about the big picture of the war because I don't know anything about it. I only know what we see from our worms-eye view.

Tired and dirty soldiers are alive and don't want to die. Long, dark and convoys in the middle of the night. Silent men wandering down the hill from battle. Chow lines and foxholes and burning tanks and the rustle of high-flown shells.

Jeeps and petrol dumps and smelly bedding rolls, sea rations and cactus patches, and blown bridges and dead mules and hospital tents. And shirt colors greasy black for months of wearing, laughter and anger and wine, lovely ploughs, and constant cussing, and graves, and graves, and graves.

This is our war, and we'll carry it with us as we go from one battlefield to another until it is all over, leaving some of us behind on every beach in every field. They died, and thereby the rest of us can go on and on.

Can we leave here for the next show? There is nothing we can do for the ones beneath the wooden process. Except perhaps to pause and mama. Thanks, pal. Words at War, brought to you by the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with the Council on Books in War Time, brings you another in the series of radio adaptations of outstanding

war books. Tonight, stories of the American Campaign in North Africa, as reported in the new book Here is your war by the famous correspondent Ernie Pyle. Soon after the first American troops landed in North Africa, millions of Americans here at home came to know for the first time a man named Ernie Pyle.