Yes, Audie Murphy was from Tx. Greenville has a museum. I have 2 pictures of him that were taken on a movie set. I bought them at a garage sale several years ago. He's one of my favorite actors and favorite soldiers. I salute all who've done the country a service by serving in the military. It's an awesome thing they do. Marilyn Detroit

(this is lengthy rambling about the Korean War, not genealogy, delete now if not interest) I do think this message deserves a better description and respect than rambling. Yes, about the Audie Murphy Museum on I-30 at Greenville. My family visited it 2 or 3 years ago. It is combined with a Cotton (Farming) Museum. To get to it, you need to heed the signs on I-30 or you will easley drive past the exit. As already said, there is a very impressive bronze statue of him in battle action that can be seen on the north of of I-30 on the fart east side of Greenville if you are looking for it. I understand 1 or 2 other small towns say they are also the home of Audie Murphy. One is Farmersville and I think another one close to it. It is my thinking that maybe his farmer dad (family) moved to Greenville when he was a small boy. I remember see the Audie Murphy movie, "To Hell and Back" in the Avalon when the movie was new. Must have been in the 50s. I want William and over Korean vets to know that for one, this 3rd grader was very supportive of the soldiers serving in Korea. I would living in Yoakum, Tx, I would check the newspaper every day to see the map with arrows show the troop movement. Us young boys favorite game was to "play" combat soldier, digging fox holes in the vacant lot next door, building a bunker our of stones and old fence post, crawling in the grass as low as I could with my toy gun. I still have a few newspaper clippings in my scrapbook of the Korean War. One about the battle On Vegas Hill titled "Vegas Hill Recaptured by Marines (letters over a inch high and the hill "Old Baldy. Another large letter headline I have is "U.S. Bombers Smash Reds on Old Baldy" (western Korea). The article says "The Chinese Communist launched one of their heaviest assaults in months against Old Baldy over the week-end and the fight still continues. Both clippins have pictures of wounded or exhausted soldiers. Another picture of the F-86 Sabre, and the Russian BIG-15, Also a news clipping of returning prisoner of war camp in Korea, Maj. Gen William F. Dean, with his many nieces, nephews and grandchildren at his home in Berkeley, Calif. Another clip of Gen James A. Van Fleet, former Eight Army commander, leaving the White House after a "chat" with President Eisenhower. . I am not sure, maybe Vegas Hill and Old Baldy are the same hill, maybe some of you Korean Vets can straighten me out on this. My point is, that if this little boy was supportive of the soldiers and thought of them as heroes, I am sure there were millions more doing the same, we were just silent in the eyes of the press as far as I am concerned. I do remember going to the funeral at Tuggle Springs of a relative soldier that was killed in the very early action of Korea. His brother Harvey Fryar is a resident of Regency Home. Another brother was killed in WW II. One was George and the other Harold. The old scrap book is destroyed over the years, but I still have the pages in a box. Jim Giddens Paris, Tx ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Old Soldier > Yes, Audie Murphy was from Tx. Greenville has a museum. I have 2 pictures > of him that were taken on a movie set. I bought them at a garage sale > several years ago. He's one of my favorite actors and favorite soldiers. I salute > all who've done the country a service by serving in the military. It's an > awesome thing they do. > > Marilyn > Detroit > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx