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Vernon mentioned card and crap games that were going on bub said he took no part in them. He said by doing so he lost no friends and gained nany. His letters indicated his desire to be honid but at the saiie time his realisation that he had a duty to perform. He was interested in the education of his younger brothers and specified that they stay in rchcnl vuitil they fiiiished high school. He wrote that he was proud of his part in oai ry.ii-ig on the fight. He shov/ed interest in his dog he left at home. His last le:.te,rs sho-'-v a great interest in the welfare of his mother and brothers. These letters give a batter idea of Vernon as a man than anything we could say. Vernon’s former Frincipal^ L..C., Broome of Morganton wrote of him as follows: "I remember Vernon as a. ycung ki?.;! of niasiy sterling qua.lities. He was honest and fair in liis dealing^ with hi.tj feiJ.oY.’ students« Tie was kind and courteous to everyone. He was a good student and.used his tij^e wisely. I shall not soon forget hovi well he plaj^ed the part of ''Aaron S}ic;k from Pu^xKiii Crick" in the play by that title which was pi jscnted by t’^e graduating class of i9.4i. I kjnow he gave his life to his country willingly for he lovod it and his fellov;men with a love that great, and greater love has no man than to lay dov.n h5.s life for his friends." Under the sod of many foreign lands lie the mortal remains of those from our midst "viho have given their all, and it seem.^ that each time the distance from home grows greater, but the apprcach to v.ictory draws ^nearer. Yet these far away graves are rble to hold only the Kortal remins. The soul of Mai Vernon Buff like the soul of many others cannot be so corifined."‘Dust thou artl bo dust returneth' was not spoken of the soul." We cannot .doubt that Vernon has passed to his reward in glory vjher6 there is no more strife and r.n is peace and happiness. ERIvIE PYLF;, "THE LITTLE GUY", KILLED IN ACTiai Ernie Pyle, America'-s favorite Yfer Correspondent xvas k3-lj-ed cn le Jima, Ryukyus Island on April 18th.-, while jjn l^ne of duty, "Tlie jjittle Crjy'' had been with the Amy every since it Landed in Noi-''.h Africa, stayed wilb'our GIs iJght on thru’ the Italian Campaign, thru’ I>-Day until after the Battle oi StV Lo., After this battle, Ernie con fessed to friends that this experience had been the most horrible and horrifying of all his war'experiences - "I don*t think I could go through it again and'keep my sanity^ he said. So it was, that after two and one half years with the Ii'j’rjitry# ho left for the rest ho needed so badly^ Ho-^carr.e back to America^ to Albuquerque and to Jerry (his wife) last fall, uhen for the first time perhaps, he realized just bow very much he had corao' to' mean to all the folks back homo, he was the patron saint of the GIs and also their Moms and Dads, ; . ' A few short weeks ago, he left for the Pacific where he boarded a small aircraft carrier to xvrite. of the Navy^ ’ It vrns his plan to rejo5ji his beloved'Amy GIs in'the Phillipines or on some other bitterly conte.^ted .i&lrindi Th.is ho did, on le Jima, he was- once again vdth his "mr.Gt-ra^ln-fros'^ and wind.boys''^ vjlien Death overtook him, ’Ernie is buried on la Jima with scores of hxs GIs, he would have wanted it that ■vvay, ■ ' ■ We shall miss you "littlo Guy",
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