To Hell And Back (Remembering Audie Murphy, June 20, 1925 - May 28, 1971)

http://the-american-catholic.com ^ | June 20, 2014 | Donald R. McClarey

[UnwashedPeasant]

Form the end of his book, "To Hell and Back":

When I was a child, I was told that men were branded by war. Has the brand been put on me? Have the years of blood and ruin stripped me of all decency? Of all belief?

Not of all belief. I believe in the force of a hand grenade, the power of artillery, the accuracy of a Garand. I believe in hitting before you get hit, and that dead men do not look noble.

But I also believe in men like Brandon and Novak and Swope and Kerrigan; and all the men who stood up against the enemy, taking their beatings without whimper and their triumphs without boasting. The men who went and would go again to hell and back to preserve what our country thinks right and decent.

[Shark24]

Thank you for a great post.

[virgil283]

Thanks NKP good post....You never see a true hero bragging about what he did.

The best line in the movie was - Kerrigan: [after a jumpy Murphy shoots at his own image in a mirror] "Man, that's the first time I ever seen a Texan beat himself to the draw. "

[Tax-chick]

Someone posted recently that we shouldn’t talk about Post-Traumatic Stress “Disorder,” but simply about Post-Traumatic Stress, because effects of some kind are the norm, rather than the exception.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping and the links!

[jch10]

Thanks for this post. I enjoyed remembering Audie.