Remembering Audie Murphy this Veterans Day. Audie Murphy is the most decorated soldier of WWII. The native Texan went on to lead an extremely successful acting career, starring in over 40 movies with many being Westerns. Thank you for your service, Audie and all Veterans! #veteransday #audiemurphy #wwii #texashistory | Forrest From Texas

Audie Leon Murphy was an Army Veteran and one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II. Murphy was born in 1925 on a north Texas sharecropper farm and as a child was known for his accuracy with a gun. Murphy’s father left the family and as a child, Murphy dropped out of school in fifth grade picked cotton for a dollar a day. Murphy’s mother died when he was only 16, leaving him and his siblings orphaned. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Murphy was determined to jo