“Our men were pinned down for a while, but finally they stood up and went through, and so we took that beach and accomplished our landing. In the light of a couple of days of retrospection, we sat and talked and called it a miracle that our men ever got on at all or were able to stay on. . . . “I walked for a mile and a half along the water's edge of our many-miled invasion beach. I walked slowly, for the detail on that beach was infinite. “The wreckage was vast and startling. The awful waste and destruction of war, even aside from the loss of human life, has always been one of its outstanding features to those who are in it. Anything and everything is expendable. And we did expend on our beachhead . . . during those first few hours.” –Ernie Pyle, June 7, 1944 Read the quote and then answer the question below. In this excerpt, a famous American war correspondent describes his thoughts about what he went through and the wreckage from the landing on the beaches. a. Dunkirk c. Anzio b. Normandy d. Guadalcanal “Our men were pinned down for a while, but finally they stood up and went through, and so we took that beach and accomplished our landing. In the light of a couple of days of retrospection, we sat and talked and called it a miracle that our men ever got on at all or were able to stay on. . . . “I walked for a mile and a half along the water's edge of our many-miled invasion beach. I walked slowly, for the detail on that beach was infinite. “The wreckage was vast and startling. The awful waste and destruction of war, even aside from the loss of human life, has always been one of its outstanding features to those who are in it. Anything and everything is expendable. And we did expend on our beachhead . . . during those first few hours.” –Ernie Pyle, June 7, 1944 Read the quote and then answer the question below. In this excerpt, a famous American war correspondent describes his thoughts about what he went through and the wreckage from the landing on the beaches. a. Dunkirk c. Anzio b. Normandy d.