MY HERO SINCE 1955 wrote:
Betty wrote:
MY HERO SINCE 1955 wrote:
My family was there in 1972, or '73. The gravestone looks renewed to me? Much darker lettering than I can remember.
Hats off to a top 5 all-time American patriot. Right there with Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, in my eyes!
The marker does look new. When we were there it was barely readable. I'm glad it's either new or cleaned. All the hero's deserve that dignity.
Yes Betty, you're right, now that I fully recall. I couldn't believe the gravestone. It was very plain looking and almost illegible. And this was only a year or two after the tragic accident that took his life.
I do have a suspicion that Audie, himself, requested this rather plain gravestone. An extremely humble hero.
http://forum.cloud.static-files.com/vb4 ... owdown.gifYes, this new one is much, much better.
I remember poking around the archival version of Richard's guestbook, and seeing some comments, perhaps a couple years old or more, complaining about how shabby Murphy's tombstone was looking and how the commenter planned to write to their congressman or something about it, so maybe that's what triggered it.
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