Audie Murphy: Do you know all there is to know?

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Audie Murphy: Do you know all there is to know?

Postby Miclania » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:33 pm

I would like to know how many of you know who the great Audie Murphy was (Please don't use wikipedia, I consider that cheating).
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Postby Yootopia » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:34 pm

Miclania wrote:I would like to know how many of you know who the great Audie Murphy was (Please don't use wikipedia, I consider that cheating).

Yes.

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Postby GetBert » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:38 pm

Yes, he was the most decorated US soldier in WWII and went on to become a film star, mainly in westerns.

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Postby Social-Libertarianism » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:39 pm

An American war hero. Most decorated of all time I beleive. Haha I was just in my politics and conflic class talking about this.

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Postby TerraPublica » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:39 pm

He's buried at Arlington too.
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Postby Flameswroth » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:39 pm

Audie Murphy is an African American comedian. He has starred in many famous movies, such as 'that one with Dan Akroyd where they switch places' and 'that other one where he played that foreign leader or something'. In his old age he has focused on family movies like 'The Ghost-Inhabited Villa' by Disney and gave his voice to the dragon in moolan.
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Postby Cannibastion » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:39 pm

Kind of already spoiled the good stuff, I think he was later charged and/or convicted of child molestation.

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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:40 pm

Miclania wrote:I would like to know how many of you know who the great Audie Murphy was (Please don't use wikipedia, I consider that cheating).

Why is Wiki cheating?
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Postby Iron Chariots » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:40 pm

As I recall (I don't recall where I read this), he was so badass that when he starred in a film as himself, they actually had to tone it down for fear that people would think that they had to be exaggerating.
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Postby Flameswroth » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:41 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Miclania wrote:I would like to know how many of you know who the great Audie Murphy was (Please don't use wikipedia, I consider that cheating).

Why is Wiki cheating?

I think he wanted to know if we knew Audie Murphy off the cuff, not how quickly we can type 'Audie Murphy' into wiki and copy-paste what came up.
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Postby Sarkhaan » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:42 pm

What exactly are we supposed to discuss here? Why is this being brought up?

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Postby OMGeverynameistaken » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:42 pm

He was the third reincarnation of Andrew Jackson, after Teddy Roosevelt, and the first not to be elected president.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:42 pm

Flameswroth wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:
Miclania wrote:I would like to know how many of you know who the great Audie Murphy was (Please don't use wikipedia, I consider that cheating).

Why is Wiki cheating?

I think he wanted to know if we knew Audie Murphy off the cuff, not how quickly we can type 'Audie Murphy' into wiki and copy-paste what came up.

Okay. *grumble* It's not Monday, is it? I feel like it is.
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Postby Tagmatium » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:52 pm

Shouldn't you be doing your own homework?
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Postby The Black Forrest » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:00 pm

I believe he also wrote music which was used by Dean Martin and Charley Pride.

He also supported the democratic party. Does that make him a socialist! ;)

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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:10 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:I believe he also wrote music which was used by Dean Martin and Charley Pride.

He also supported the democratic party. Does that make him a socialist! ;)

If not an outright traitor. I mean, a decorated soldier, supporting them?
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Postby Sdaeriji » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:38 pm

Iron Chariots wrote:As I recall (I don't recall where I read this), he was so badass that when he starred in a film as himself, they actually had to tone it down for fear that people would think that they had to be exaggerating.


Neil Patrick Harris?
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Postby Soratsin » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:27 pm

Didn't he jump up on a burning tank and use the top mounted machine gun to kill like 3 platoons of germans or something?


I think I read about it in a cracked article...
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Postby greed and death » Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:23 pm

Yes everyone who was in the military has every detail about his service and life beat into their head.
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Postby greed and death » Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:46 pm

the best part is he was actually in movies portraying himself.
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Postby Autumn Wind » Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:15 pm

The most highly decorated US Army superninjas of WWII. Despite the fact that recieved a battlefield promotion to Lieutenant and eventually became a Major, recognition board for NCOs was established in his honor.
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Postby Blouman Empire » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:13 pm

Yes, first heard about him when watching a WWII film that he starred in and then got told his history by my dad.

Even have a photo of his tombstone when we were in Washington D.C
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Postby Gun Manufacturers » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:20 pm

Miclania wrote:I would like to know how many of you know who the great Audie Murphy was (Please don't use wikipedia, I consider that cheating).


Congressional Medal of Honor winner (Army, WW2)
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Died in a plane crash

I saw "To Hell and Back", so that's how I knew about his military service (as a side note, he played himself in the movie).

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Postby Blackhelm Confederacy » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:35 pm

The real life chuck norris.

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Postby Senestrum » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:55 pm

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