This is an excellent read.
Audie Murphy's wife... worth the read ..What a
> beautiful Lady...
> >
> >
> >Audie was only 46 years old when he died in a
> helicopter crash into the Virginia Mts.
> >He was bothered all his life when he came back from the
> war and it really affected his life.
> >He never got the medical help like he should have
> gotten.
> >
> >Not many young people know who Audie Murphy was or
> how
big a war hero he was.
> >Two or three of the medals he earned would make
> most service men proud,
> >but to have earned his decorations in battle is
> truly
unbelievable.
> >
> >Now to find out that his widow was also most
> certainly a hero.
> >Truly fantastic.
> >List of Decorations for Audie Murphy:
> >
> >
> >Medal of Honor
>
>
> >Distinguished Service Cross
> >
> >Silver Star (with oak leaf cluster)
> >
> >Legion of Merit
> >
> >Bronze Star (with oak leaf cluster and Valor
> Device)
> >
> >Purple Heart (with two oak leaf clusters)
> >
> >U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal
> >
> >U.S. Army Good Conduct Medal
> >
> >Presidential Unit Citation (with First Oak Leaf
> Cluster)
> >
> >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
> >
> >French Fourrage 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 (with 1940 Palm)
> >
> >Additionally, Murphy was awarded:
> >
> >the Combat Infantry Marksman badge with Rifle Bar
> Expert
Badge
> >with Bayonet Bar.
> >
> >
> >Isn't it sad the media can tell us all about the BAD
> that goes on,
> >but ignores the GOOD people?
> >If a movie Star or politician stubs their toe we
> have to hear about it for Days!!!
> >
> >
> >
> >(From the Los Angeles Times on April 15, 2010)
> >
> >Pamela Murphy, widow of WWII hero and actor, Audie
> Murphy, died peacefully at
> >her home on April 8, 2010. She was the widow of
> the most decorated WWII hero and actor,
> >Audie Murphy, and established her own distinctive
> 35 year career working as a patient
> >liaison at the Sepulveda Veterans Administration
> hospital,
> >treating every veteran who visited the facility as if
> they were a VIP.
> >
> >Any soldier or Marine who came into the hospital
> got
the same special treatment from her.
> >She would walk the hallways with her clipboard in
> hand making sure her boys got to
> >see the specialist they needed. If they didn't,
> watch
out.
> >Her boys weren't Medal of Honor recipients or
> movie stars like Audie,
> >but that didn't matter to Pam. They had served
> their Country. That was good enough for
her.
> >She never called a veteran by his first name. It was
> always "Mister." Respect came with the job.
> >
> >"Nobody could cut through VA red tape faster
than
> Mrs. Murphy," said veteran
> >Stephen Sherman, speaking for thousands of
> veterans she befriended over the years.
> >"Many times I watched her march a veteran who
had
> been waiting more than
> >an hour right into the doctor's office.
> >She was even reprimanded a few times, but it didn't
> matter to Mrs. Murphy.
> >"Only her boys mattered. She was our angel."
> >
> >Audie Murphy died, broke, in a plane crash in
> 1971, squandering millions of
> >dollars on gambling, bad investments, and yes,
> other women.
> >"Even with the adultery and desertion at the end,
> he always remained my hero,"
> >Pam told me.
> >She went from a comfortable ranch-style home in
> Van Nuys where she raised
> >two sons to a small apartment - taking a clerk's
> job at the nearby VA
to support
> >herself and start paying off her faded movie star
> husband's debts.
> >At first, no one knew who she was. Soon, though, word
>
spread through the
> >VA that the nice woman with the clipboard was
> Audie Murphy's widow.
> >It was like saying General Patton had just walked
> in the front
door.
> >Men with tears in their eyes walked up to her and
> gave her a Hug.
> >
> >"Thank you," they said, over and over.
> >
> >The first couple of years, I think the hugs were
> more for Audie's memory
> >as a war hero. The last 30 years, they were for
> Pam.
> >
> >One year I asked her to be the focus of a
> Veteran's Day column for all the
> >work she had done. Pam just
shook her head no.
> "Honor them, not me,"
> >she said, pointing to a group of veterans down the
> hallway.
> >"They're the ones who deserve it."
> >
> >The vets disagreed. Mrs. Murphy deserved the
> accolades, they said.
> >Incredibly, in 2002, Pam's job was going to be
> eliminated in budget cuts.
> >She was considered "excess staff." "I don't think
> helping cut down on veterans'
> >complaints and showing them the respect they
> deserve should be considered
> >excess staff," she told me.
> >Neither did the veterans. They went ballistic,
> holding a rally for her outside
> >the VA gates. Pretty soon, word came down from the
> top of the VA.
> >Pam Murphy was no longer considered "excess
> staff."
> >
> >She remained working full time at the VA until
> 2007 when she was 87.
> >
> >"The last time she was here was a couple of years
> ago for the conference
> >we had for homeless veterans," said Becky James,
> coordinator of the VA's
> >Veterans History Project. Pam wanted to see if
> there was anything she
> >could do to help some more of her boys. Pam Murphy
> was 90 when she died.
> >What a lady.
>
>
> >Dennis McCarthy,
> >Los Angeles Times on April 15, 2010
> >
> >I know you will pass this one on.....
> >
> >
> >IN GOD WE TRUST
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