Last updated: February 2, 2010 5:21 a.m.
Group hopes to save site devoted to World War II reporter
DANA – Members of a western Indiana group are trying to find a way to keep open a state historic site that includes the boyhood home of World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle.
Friends of Ernie Pyle board member Phil Hess says the group will meet Wednesday with the director of the state Department of Natural Resources in hopes of keeping the site open.
The DNR says the museum has too few visitors and estimates the closing will save about $50,000 a year in maintenance costs.
Pyle grew up on a farm near the small western Indiana town of Dana. His World War II coverage made him a household name during the war.
Pyle was slain by a Japanese sniper in 1945 on a Pacific island.