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Town to unveil likeness of hero - Audie Murphy
The Dallas Morning News ^
| June 21, 2002
| By KELLIE B. GORMLY / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
Posted on 06/21/2002 7:24:19 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: maximus@Nashville; .30Carbine
While his hometown is a good place for a statue of him, I would like to see it in DC as the WW2 memorial. Thanks, m@N, I appreciate you posting more of the story and for giving my sotted memory a jolt with the name of his auto-biographical movie. Started to watch it last year but other things took me away from it. Audie Murphy also starred in Shane, a classic western that ranks right up there with High Noon.
.30C, my love, maybe we can rent 'To Hell and Back' and watch it at your dads' sometime. Watching 'The Red Badge of Courage would be cool too.
To: maximus@Nashville
Oh, and as for your suggestion that his statue ought to be in D.C. as the WWII Memorial I think that's a splendid idea. His story, his courage, do embody the spirit of American soldiers in WWII very well. The understatement of a single statue of a single soldier itself speaks very well for the kind of individual commitment and sacrifice that Americans made then, in uniform and at home
To: TigersEye
Actually, Murphey was not in "Shane". That was Alan Ladd.
To: WhiskeyPapa
That particular event with the buring tank was only one of several actions for which he was decorated.
Many men have gotten medals for a single isolated event that occurred in the heat of battle, but few have time and time again done truly heroic things in combat - like Audie Murphy, and a fellow nicknamed "Sergeant Rock" in Viet Nam.
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To: Redbob
That particular event with the buring tank was only one of several actions for which he was decorated. Well, it's like a buddy of mine once said. It's not the bullet with your name on it that you have to worry about. It's all those bullets marked, "to whom it may concern."
In that sense, Murphy manning the machine gun on the burning tank destroyer was putting himself in a situation almost certain to get one of those anonymous missives. Set a tank on fire and it will blow up more often than not, and Murphy knew it. It was perhaps the most remarkable incident in a remarkable career.
Walt
To: maximus@Nashville
(Extremely red-faced.) My memory is more shot than I imagined. My apologies to both. Thanks for straightening me out.
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