Photo of WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle resurfaces after more than 60 years

Photo Credit: Alexander Roberts/ Via AP/ Richard Strasser

He is among the most venerated war correspondents in American History. When Ernie Pyle died in April 1945, covering the battle of Okinawa, the country mourned his loss. Pyle was in the prime of his journalistic career and had developed a style of war-reporting that was riveting and heart-felt.  Richard Pyle of the Associated Press reports that pictures showing Pyle's death were censored by the government and then lost to memory for more than six decades. Recently, Alexander Roberts' image of Pyle's body resurfaced. Historically, the image is important in that it reminds us of the sacrifice people pay for freedom.  Pyle knew the risk he was taking in covering the war, but this picture reminds us of what that risk would ultimately mean.