re: #11 AntonSirius
No, “lapdog” is probably a better word.
Pyle was no one’s lapdog, but he was a great friend to the American fighting man. And it was his determination to report from the front that helped seal their respect of him. Ultimately, that determination got him killed in IJA General Kuribayashi’s island death trap. But it also won him a larger fame that still endures.