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Originally Posted by Locke
Yeah, Audie doesnt really count, he was a Soldier who ended up having to stop being a solider because walking around Europe with balls the size of Watermelons killing everything he saw was becoming far too time consuming.
So they made a movie about his exploits, found no one could could adequately portray him and he figured, what the hell, he could probably do that too. Hell, he could probably play himself in a movie killing people while actually killing people if he wanted to.
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Audie Murphy is an interesting story because first and foremost he didn't look like a soldier, he was a very small and frail man. Because of that he was rejected by the marines and the navy.
Once in the army he almost failed basic training because he didn't seem to have the constitution for it, and the army wanted to send him to cooking school.
But he was what you would call a motivated soldier and overcame, won more medals then anyone else including the CMH. He also left a swath of destruction in WWII.
He became hooked on pain killers after the war, and instead of crying about it, or checking into rehab, he booked himself into a hotel and instructed the manager not to let him leave the room, and he dried himself out.
He got into the movies because Hollywood wanted to make a story about him, and he didn't think there was an actor who could play him.
He's an amazing story of guts, balls and persistance.
In the Army, every soldier hears about him, just like I learned about Tommy Prince up here.