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Audie Murphy

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[Wikipedia] Audie Leon Murphy was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, and has been described as the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history. He received every military combat award for valor available

Quotes by Audie Murphy

“...and, without once looking back, walk down the road through the forest. If the Germans want to shoot me, let them. I…

Fear

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After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let…

Army

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“Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way…

Individuality

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“I'd hate their guts if they had any.”

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I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going…

Action

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No soldier ever really survives a war.

Soldier

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I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over…

Country

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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,…

America

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Lead from the front.

Front

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I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to…

Air

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And freedom is what America means to the world.

America

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“Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old…

Defeat

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Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that…

Blood

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It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.

Easy

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I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

Bravery

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I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did--…

Guy

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Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new…

Alive

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Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I…

Combat

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They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Freedom

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