Posted on 01/26/2025 9:02:39 AM PST by DFG
Amen.
bfl
I’ll never forget a visit to Arlington cemetery years ago and in a walk-through noted a simple cross like thosands of others, but this gravesite was loaded with wreaths and flowers. I inspected the site and there I noted the name: Audie Murphy.
I went to the Audie Murphy museum near Sulphur Springs a few years ago. It was amazing.
Unfortunately, it’s small and coupled with a cotton museum, believe it or not.
I think he deserves a little more than that, but it was a fantastic thing to visit.
On the Application Trail around mile 682 or is where he died in a plane crash.
I haven’t been to the Texas Capitol for a long time, but it used to have a large phoro of Audie Murphy with all of his medals - he earned all the combat medals the Army had in WWII.
<>after being turned down by the Navy and Marines for being underage and underweight.<>
We can hardly comprehend the widespread malnutrition of the Depression era.
Indeed. We were blessed to have both.
Oddly, he died on the mountain I lived on for 23 years.
Since I was a young boy, he has always been my number one hero, outside of Jesus The Christ
How was it that the artillery was in place where he needed it? I remember reading about Ultra Secret (decrypting codes) and it turns out the Allies knew the Germans would attack there. That’s why. I forget where I read that but remember thinking “Dang! No wonder!”
While hiking the Appalachian Trail, I went to the Audie Murphy monument near the site of his fatal plane crash. Pic of monument at https://trailjournals.com/journal/photos/24768/1339489
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