USO Canteen FReeper Style....Audie Murphy Day....June 20,2002

Researched from various web sites by .......SpookBrat and Snow Bunny

[Pippin]

I thought I was slow! LOL

[tomkow6]

No. I'm a blonde!
Wanna know what I think.....(((((((((POOF!)))))) )))))))

[Johnny Gage]

Wow.....Awesome..... I'm speechless.

What a great write up on the life of Audie Murphy. Audie was truly a man who grabbed life by the horns and never quit.

Thanks Bunny for the great thread. I feel this one ranks up there as "One of the best".

(Plate here soon)
Time out: 08:49
KMG-365

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', All !
I think my Brother might start using FR.
I'm hoping he'll start posting here soon......

[lodwick]

;-) Nice Catch!

[JustAmy]

This is a wonderful thread. Of course, I've seen 'To Hell and Back' 2 or 3 times.
As a young girl in the early 50's, I had the biggest crush on Audie Murphy. The crush on him followed crushes on Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. LOL
I also visited his grave site at Arlington. Visiting Arlington National Cemetary and the Viet Nam Wall were experiences I will never forget.
God Bless our Veterans.
God Bless and Protect our Military.
God Bless America.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Victoria. Thanks for the dinner and wonderful evening yesterday.

[DoughtyOne]

Good morning.  Others were coming up with a license plate, so I decided to follow through and develop one that I'd been thinking about.

Have a great day.

The Audie L. Murphy project for today was very nice.  Thanks again for your great USO Canteen work.
 

[the_doc]

When I visited Arlington a few years ago, I was intrigued to see that Audie Murphy's grave had no American flag like the one on DoughtyOne's photo.

Instead, it was marked by a single Texas flag.

We Texans definitely do remember this favorite son of ours, and because of the Texas observance of his birthday, I think we will remember him for a long time to come. But I wonder how long Americans on the whole will remember Audie.

Thanks for the post.

[DoughtyOne]

They still remember York. I think they'll remember Murphy. Someone will do a movie and remind them of him. As for his grave site, I think it's great to see a Texas flag there. I wouldn't mind placing a California flag there also. It would be nice to see flags there from a number of states. Thanks for the comments.

[RedlegCPT]

As long as there is a US Army we will remember Audie Murphy. There is a SGT Audie Murphy club that NCO's are inducted in and the 3RD Infantry Division sings the Audie Murphy song everyday before PT. He is one of the most revered soldiers in the Army, and his legend along with Alvin York's gets passsed on all the time.

[the_doc]

Thanks for your responses, including the reminder about Alvin York.

[DoughtyOne]

Nice story Sam. Thanks a lot.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Good morning, all. Great job SpookBrat and Snow Bunny!

Have a wonderful day, everyone.

PLEASE, MR. MUSIC MAN
Audie Murphy & Scott Turner (song)

Please, Mr. Music Man
Play a song for me
A tune to mend a broken heart
So won't you play it-Tenderly
I'll bet you know Ramblin' Rose
Or even Falling Leaves
But please don't play Cheatin' Heart
That's what he sang to me
He left me walkin' low Lonely Street
Singin' All The Blues
But Everybody's Somebody's Fool
And It Can Happen To You
So..
Please, Mr. Music Man
Play me two or three
A song to mend a broken heart
And bring him back to me
Please, Mr. Music Man
Play me two or three
A song to mend a broken heart
And bring him back to me
So please, Mr. Music Man
What will my song be?

[SAMWolf]

Nice Picture. Love the Thompson SMG.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Mornin' Sam. You're welcome. It was a lot fun.

I'll be back later today so I hope to see you then. ;-)

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thank you.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Good morning, Tom.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi Clara.

[aomagrat]

Today's classic warship, USS NORTH DAKOTA (BB-29)

Delaware Class
Displacement. 20,000
Length. 518'9"
Beam. 85'3"
Draft. 26'11"
Speed. 21 k.
Complement. 933
Armament. 10 12", 14 5", 4 3-pdrs., 2 21" torpedo tubes.
Commissioned on 11 April 1910
Sold for scrap on 16 March 1931

North Dakota (BB-29) was laid down 16 December 1907 by Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass.; launched 10 November 1908; sponsored by Miss Mary Benton; and commissioned at Boston 11 April 1910, Comdr. Charles P. Plunkett in command.

In her first years North Dakota operated with the Atlantic Fleet in maneuvers along the East Coast and in the Caribbean. She sailed 2 November 1910 for her first Atlantic crossing, visiting England and France prior to winter-spring maneuvers in the Caribbean. In the summers of 1912 and 1913 she carried Naval Academy midshipmen for training in New England waters, and on 1 January 1913 she joined the honor escort for Natal as the Brazilian ship entered New York harbor with the body of the late Whitelaw Reid, United States Ambassador to Brazil.

As Mexican political disturbances strained relations with the United States, North Dakota sailed for Vera Cruz, where she arrived 26 April 1914, five days after American sailors had occupied the city. She cruised the coast of Mexico to protest Americans and their interests until a more stable government took office, and returned to Norfolk 16 October. An even more intensive program of training was taken up by the Atlantic Fleet as war threatened, and North Dakota was in Chesapeake Bay for gunnery drills when the United States entered World War I.

Throughout the war, North Dakota operated in the York River, Va., and out of New York training gunners and engineers for the expanding fleet. Then, on 13 November 1919, she stood out of Norfolk to carry home the remains of the late Italian Ambassador to the United States. While in the Mediterranean she sailed at Athens, Constantinople, Valencia, and Gibraltar before returning to the Caribbean for the annual spring maneuvers. In the summer of 1921, she took part in the Army-Navy bombing tests off the Virginia Capes in which the German warships Frankfurt and Ostfriesland were sunk to demonstrate the potentialities of airpower. She interrupted fleet operations during the next two summers to again cruise with midshipmen, contributing to the future strength of the Navy by educating its officers-to-be. The cruise of 1923 took her to Scandinavia, Scotland, and Spain.

North Dakota decommissioned at Norfolk 22 November 1923. Her name was struck from the Navy List 7 January 1931, and she was sold for scrapping 16 March 1931.