That Was Then
Audie Murphy, little 5'5" tall 110 pound guy from Bay City, Texas who played cowboy parts?
Most decorated serviceman of WWII and earned: Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, 2 Silver Star Medals, Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Star Medals with "V", 2 Purple Hearts, U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, 2 Distinguished Unit Emblems, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with One Silver Star, Four Bronze Service Stars (representing nine campaigns) and one Bronze Arrowhead (representing assault landing at Sicily and Southern France) World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal with Germany Clasp, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar, Expert Badge with Bayonet Bar, French Fourragere in Colors of the Croix de Guerre, French Legion of Honor, Grade of Chevalier, French Croix de Guerre With Silver Star, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Medal of Liberated France, Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm.
So how do you feel the real heroes of the silver screen acted when compared to the hollywonks today who spray out anti-American drivel as they bite the hand that feeds them? Can you imagine these stars of yesteryear saying they hate our flag, making anti-war speeches, marching in anti-American parades and saying they hate our president?
I thought not, neither did I!
Audie Murphy was killed on May 28th, 1971, along with six others, when the private plane he was a passenger in crashed in fog and rain into a mountain near Roanoke, Virginia. He was only forty six years old at the time of his death. Fittingly, he died on Memorial Day weekend.
posted by Wild Bill at 4:45 PM
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Morning WB. Jeez, first day with no school. Sweet Sarah was torn between wanting to go back to her daycare and see her friends and wanting to stay home with Papa. I settled it by saying that if she went today, if she wanted to stay home tomorrow she could.
I'm still pooped, and want a little extra time to lay back and maybe an extended nap.
When I was a teen I remember going to the movies and seeing AM in his films, mostly in his "cowboy films". But I did see his war films during that time. He had a way of talking and "acting" like he wasn't acting. I learned much later that he couldn't "act". He told them that he would try and remember the lines but that he was not an actor, but that he would just try and understand and feel what the person might understand and feel and if it didn't work, well...he didn't want to be in Hollywood anyway.
I remember when he was killed. I really couldn't believe it, or I guess I just didn't want to believe it.
Those were the days, Roy Rogers, Gene Audry, The Lone Ranger....and John Wayne and others that fade from our memories.
Life was simpler back then, the bad guys wore black hats and the good guys wore white hats.
The bad guys played dirty, while the good guys played fair and the good guys always won...
Oh for a time machine...just for little awhile.
Papa Ray
Yes, certainly a difference in the mindset of the "stars" of today versus yesteryear. Back then it seems they had more substance, they were more than just stuck on their own celebrity.
Sort of a testament, I suppose, of the morality and mindset of most people today. They just don't give a rat's ass about anything unless it involves them directly. Damn fools just don't get the seriousness of what we're facing.
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