[Colorized] photo of Audie L. Murphy: WWII’s most decorated soldier, Hollywood actor, writer, and advocate for mental health awareness. Taken in the 1940s. [1080 x 1350]
[Colorized] photo of Audie L. Murphy: WWII’s most decorated soldier, Hollywood actor, writer, and advocate for mental health awareness. Taken in the 1940s. [1080 x 1350]
Imagine spending nearly three years in uninterrupted, nightmarish combat and then, 10 years later, starring in a movie about those same experiences. I can only imagine the mental toll exacted by filming [scenes like this](https://youtu.be/7QslUo5TRe4?si=jL4AobH1RUh144Bh).
I probably rewatch that film once every few years. There are so many lessons to be gleaned from Audie’s short life: Determination and commitment, self-sacrifice and duty.
Despite only being 5-foot-4 (and being rejected by the Navy and Marines as a result), Audie Murphy looms large over history. He wss a giant of a man.
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This guy was a bona fide bad ass.
After Pearl Harbor, he lied about his age, only to be turned down by two military branches because of his diminutive size and weight. He was 5’4″. It reminds me of Steve Rogers pre Captain America, except he didn’t need Stark intervention to become a hero.
He held off an entire German company by himself before leading successful counter attack. When he was asked why he would do such a thing, he replied “they were killing my friends”.
He was hospitalized multiple times including twice for malaria. He was wounded and suffered gangrene. None of it stopped him from returning time and again.
He’s thought to be not just the most decorated US soldier in WWII, but in American history as well. He also received multiple medals from France and Belgium.
Post war, he suffered from major PTSD and slept with a loaded gun under his pillow. He advocated for soldiers returning from the Korean and Vietnam wars, raising awareness to psychological toll soldiers endure.
He wasn’t great with money and had failed investments that put in severe debt, but refused to appear in either tobacco or alcohol advertisements.
The skeptic in me wants to say there are embellishments in his story, but when it comes from multiple accounts and sources, you gotta start thinking that there’s truth to the legend.
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[To Hell and Back](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Hell_and_Back_(film)) is among the most surreal films I’ve ever seen.
Imagine spending nearly three years in uninterrupted, nightmarish combat and then, 10 years later, starring in a movie about those same experiences. I can only imagine the mental toll exacted by filming [scenes like this](https://youtu.be/7QslUo5TRe4?si=jL4AobH1RUh144Bh).
I probably rewatch that film once every few years. There are so many lessons to be gleaned from Audie’s short life: Determination and commitment, self-sacrifice and duty.
Despite only being 5-foot-4 (and being rejected by the Navy and Marines as a result), Audie Murphy looms large over history. He wss a giant of a man.
This guy was a bona fide bad ass.
After Pearl Harbor, he lied about his age, only to be turned down by two military branches because of his diminutive size and weight. He was 5’4″. It reminds me of Steve Rogers pre Captain America, except he didn’t need Stark intervention to become a hero.
He held off an entire German company by himself before leading successful counter attack. When he was asked why he would do such a thing, he replied “they were killing my friends”.
He was hospitalized multiple times including twice for malaria. He was wounded and suffered gangrene. None of it stopped him from returning time and again.
He’s thought to be not just the most decorated US soldier in WWII, but in American history as well. He also received multiple medals from France and Belgium.
Post war, he suffered from major PTSD and slept with a loaded gun under his pillow. He advocated for soldiers returning from the Korean and Vietnam wars, raising awareness to psychological toll soldiers endure.
He wasn’t great with money and had failed investments that put in severe debt, but refused to appear in either tobacco or alcohol advertisements.
The skeptic in me wants to say there are embellishments in his story, but when it comes from multiple accounts and sources, you gotta start thinking that there’s truth to the legend.