Alone and far removed from earthly care
The noble ruins of men lie buried here.
You were strong men, good men
Endowed with youth and much the will to live.
I hear no protest from the mute lips of the dead.
They rest: there is no more to give.
So long my comrades,
Sleep ye where you fell upon the field.
But tread softly please
March O'er my heart with ease.
March on and on,
But to God alone we kneel.
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Audie Murphy innit. I heard of him.
He went on to have a substantial movie career, mostly in Westerns.
And his book To Hell and Back was a pretty decent first-hand account of (mainly) the Italian Campaign..
He was a hero of Anzio. Just like another great Western Star James Arness.
I was reading about Audie after I saw on Instapundit that it was his 93 birthday.
Did you know that he suffered from PSTD and was one of the first advocates for vets who suffered from it. He was very active with Vietnam vets and tried to take the stigma away from it. He proved that even the bravest and best could suffer from it and led the way to understanding and compassion for our vets who suffer from their service.
He was truly a hero in more ways than one.
Did you know that he desperately wanted to star in John Wayne's production of "The Alamo" but he Duke didn't think he was a good enough actor.
Think about that one for a minute.
I think he would have been great as Jim Bowie.
Trooper York said...
Did you know that he suffered from PSTD and was one of the first advocates for vets who suffered from it
Ben Cooper, who had an interim part on Gunsmog, did several pictures with him and noted he was a very somber guy to be with.
As for The Alamo, most of the guys were the Duke's stunt man buds, so Audie probably would have held his own.
Didn't Audie play himself, or anyway a regular GI, in GI Joe? That film with Burgess Meredith. I thought he acted well in it, which is to say he didn't seem to be acting at all. He had a very understated way about him. He was also quite good in The Red Badge of Courage. I think the great WW II cartoonist Bill Mauldin played his buddy in that film. On second thought maybe he wasn't in GI Joe. That film made Bob Mitchum a star.
You're thinking of To Hell And Back.
In the mid 1950's my parents took my brother and me to see an Audie Murphy western. I'd never heard of him but when the movie was over Roy Rogers had to move over and make room for a new hero in my life.
My dad had a lot of reverence for Audey Murphy. Nowadays, people look up to John McCain as a hero.
John McClane, maybe.
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