Joe D.
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Joined: 8/31/2005 From: Stratford, Connecticut Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl I respect withholding it for the sake of hie widow..., but as there are thousands of photos of people killed in the Second World War available, I don't see a problem with releasing one more. Pyle was laid-out as if he were in a funeral home, but w/o a casket; one writer said except for the trickle of blood from his mouth, he looked like he was asleep. Photos of slain US troops in WW II were basically forbidden until the end of the Pacific war; I forget the rationale for this change, but in most instances, the faces of the dead weren't discernable. In the Civil War, Mathew Brady and his gang of ghouls were notorious for posing dead Confederate soldiers, even to the point of draging them to new locales, i.e., "Death of a Confederate Sharpshooter".
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