World War II – Buckeye Muse

“A Long Thin Line of Personal Anguish”: Ernie Pyle on the Normandy Beachhead

By buckeyemuse | June 9, 2017 |

Ernie Pyle, born in Dana, Indiana on August 3, 1900, was one of the great American journalists of the twentieth century. He is one of the most famous correspondents of the Second World War, a man who riveted readers with his simple and direct accounts of life in the war zones and his skill at…

Rodger Young and the Mystery of the “Common Man”

By buckeyemuse | July 13, 2016 |

In the McPherson Cemetery in Clyde, Ohio, Rodger Young’s grave is a humble kind of space when measured against the monuments to two other military heroes on the same ground. At the cemetery’s entrance is an imposing monument to General James McPherson, the second highest-ranking Union officer killed during the Civil War. A statue of…

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