Sunday, May 15, 2016

Texas Son


11 comments:

  1. Audie Murphy, Medal of Honor winner and a major crush of mine when I was 8 years old.

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  2. genuine hero.....and, his life after the war was in many ways tougher than the combat....


    vaquero viejo

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  3. His like will never be seen again. The greatest generation.

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  4. Murphy's portrait hangs in the Texas State Senate Chamber.

    It is not a bad way to be remembered, when you think about it.

    H

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  5. ....behind a machine gun.

    ...on a tank destroyer that had been hit, abandoned by it's crew, and was on fire.

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  6. He ordered up cans of whoopass by the truckload.

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  7. Hang on a minute, When he was 19 the war was over.

    Kevin ST TX

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  8. I'm probably wrong about that.

    Kevin ST TX

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  9. He was 17 when he deployed and 21 when the war was over.

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  10. Fox hole is a sexist term.. it should be " a personal non-mechanically excavated terrestrial depression"

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Play nice. None of you are too old for a spanking.