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.