Contact: Gerald Maschino [email protected]
On December 20, 2017 the United States Senate agreed to a resolution designating August 3, 2018 as
National Ernie Pyle Day. To commemorate this day a celebration that will take place at Franklin Hall
on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington.
Senator Todd Young will be attending. Also Senator Joe Donnelly has made a video honoring
Ernie Pyle and it will be presented at the celebration.
The celebration, open to the public, will begin at 10 am, and will include recognition of special
guests and speakers. The key note speaker will be Joseph Galloway, Journalist and prominent
war correspondent who began with four tours in Vietnam, the Gulf War, the Haiti Incursion, and
then two tours in Iraq.