American soldier and actor (1925–1971)
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At 19, standing on a burning tank destroyer, he held off an entire German company alone for an hour — then led a counterattack while wounded. The most decorated American combat soldier of World War II became a Hollywood actor who slept with a loaded gun under his pillow for the rest of his life.
Murphy was born into a sharecropper family in Hunt County, Texas; his father left, his mother died when he was a teenager, and he quit school in fifth grade to pick cotton and hunt to keep his siblings fed. After Pearl Harbor his sister helped him lie about his age to enlist — the Army, Navy, and Marines all turned him down for being underweight before the Army finally took him. He saw action in Sicily in 1943, fought at Anzio and in southern France in 1944, led an assault at L'Omet quarry near Cleurie, and in January 1945 at the Colmar Pocket earned the Medal of Honor for the act that would d…
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The true meaning of America, you ask? It’s in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman’s badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper. ...
I feel no qualms; no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me through the war.
Seems to me that if you're afraid or living with some big fear, you're not really living. You're only half alive.
I was scared before every battle.
People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action.
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
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