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Reply #660 on: January 27, 2021, 10:48:20 PM
They were shocked and asked, "Why don't they do a movie about him"?  :doh:    Good question, or maybe a book as well.

Okay, I still consider myself new enough around here to not be sure if you were serious about the film and book. So if you know all this already, just mute me.  :biggrin:

Mr. Murphy wrote an autobiography called To Hell and Back . The link for that book goes to an edition with a forward by Tom Brokaw. That autobiography was then made into a film To Hell and Back (1955)

Not many people write their own autobiography and then get to the star of the film based on their experiences.  8)



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Reply #661 on: January 27, 2021, 11:58:46 PM
Yeah I'm very familiar with both the book and movie. But the younger generation have no clue was my point. They've never heard of Murphy or his story most of them, which is a real shame. He still is the most decorated soldier in U.S. History correct? And he wasn't a half-bad actor either.

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Reply #662 on: January 28, 2021, 10:50:58 AM

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Reply #663 on: January 28, 2021, 11:53:41 AM
I remember seeing that in the sky while on my Lunchbreak. One of the times I was truly speechless.

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Reply #664 on: January 28, 2021, 11:59:08 AM
I remember seeing that in the sky while on my Lunchbreak. One of the times I was truly speechless.

I can't even imagine...

I think I've told this story before, but I was in Heidelberg at a friend's apartment eating Burger King for dinner on our way to a Motley Crue concert.

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Reply #665 on: January 28, 2021, 12:47:43 PM
I was in third grade art class. 


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Reply #666 on: January 28, 2021, 12:53:45 PM
I was in third grade art class.

 :doh:

I was in 2nd yr university, in Ancient Roman Tech course.

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Reply #667 on: January 28, 2021, 12:58:59 PM
I was in third grade art class.

 :doh:

I was in 2nd yr university, in Ancient Roman Tech course.

I was also in my 2nd year of college.

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Reply #668 on: January 28, 2021, 01:03:50 PM
I was in third grade art class.

 :doh:

I was in 2nd yr university, in Ancient Roman Tech course.

I was also in my 2nd year of college.


I was....   not in college  :rockon:

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Reply #669 on: January 28, 2021, 01:17:47 PM
I was in my 3rd year of graduate school.

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Reply #670 on: January 28, 2021, 01:38:21 PM
I was in my 3rd year of graduate school.

I will remove myself from your lawn.  :P

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Reply #671 on: January 28, 2021, 01:54:31 PM
I was in Her Majesty's Forces...January? Probably in a trench somewhere frozen and cold to the bone and bitching about being in Her Majesty's Service.



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Reply #672 on: January 28, 2021, 01:56:57 PM
Had no one bothered to tell you that the war had ended?  ;)

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Reply #673 on: January 28, 2021, 04:41:47 PM
And yesterday (1/27) was the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee in 1967.

I was 8.

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Reply #674 on: January 28, 2021, 05:00:57 PM
I think I've told this story before, but I was in Heidelberg at a friend's apartment eating Burger King for dinner on our way to a Motley Crue concert.

Out of curiosity, did actual Germans mock the pronunciation of Mötley Crüe, or is that just my aerospace engineer buddy who learned German to build rockets with Werner and the boys?

I was in 6th grade homeroom at the time of the Challenger disaster.

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