Hi, I'm Ernie Pyle

A One Man Theatrical Performance Presented at the Wright Museum by the Morrison Theater Group of Grand Rapids, MI Tickets are $20, $10 for Wright Museum Members Call 603/569-1212 to Order of for More Information Hi, I'm Ernie Pyle is a tribute to the men and women who fought and died during World War II as told through the dispatches of Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle. As a correspondent, Pyle covered the war from the soldier's view point, up close and personal, starting with the London blitz through the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy, D-Day, the liberation of Paris and in the South Pacific.

Hi, I’m Ernie Pyle is a sometimes touching, sometimes humorous look at the war through the eyes of Ernie Pyle as he and thousands of Americans boys lived it. In his dispatches Ernie Pyle gave his readers a first-hand view of what life was like on the front.

The play captures the period in Ernie’s life when his articles were the most widely anticipated of any war correspondent. Ernie Pyle was the first journalist to write a daily aviation column, and for five years he traveled the United States writing a column about anything that interested him. What the American public soon found was that what interested Ernie Pyle also interested them.

Ernie Pyle died April 18, 1945, killed by a Japanese sniper, on Ie Shima, an island just off the coast of Okinawa. At the site of where he was killed his "boys" in the 77th Infantry erected a sign that read: "At this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy. Ernie Pyle. 18 April 1945."

About the Performer

Gary Morrison was born April 18, 1945, the day Ernie Pyle was killed by a Japanese sniper's bullet on Ie Shima, a small island off the coast of Okinawa.

Morrison has performed Hi, I'm Ernie Pyle for dozens of service organizations, educational facilities and libraries throughout the Midwest and the East, including the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va.