Hi everyone, this is a new kind of episode that we've never done before.

It is a sneak peak of premium content that is available to members of the Nolten Rangers,

the membership program of the History Unplugged Podcast.

I've been doing a multi-part series on the life of Audie Murphy, the most decorated combat

soldier of World War II, and I just wrapped up the 10th episode on Audie Murphy.

Murphy enlisted in the army when he was 17 years old and falsified his birth records

so he could fight the Nazis.

When he was 19, he single-handedly turned back the German army, the Battle of Colmar

Pocket, by climbing to the top of a tank with a machine gun, which was a moment

immortalized in the classic film to Helen Back, starting Audie himself.

So I cover his life, his later film career, his celebrity, his severe PTSD,

and his tragic death at the age of 45.

So this episode is only a few minutes long, but if you want to listen to the rest of it

and the nine other episodes, you can go to patreon.com

slash unplugged.

Audie Murphy's grave is marked by a standard Arlington Cemetery tombstone of white marble,

like the hundreds of thousands of others.

It stands at the end of a row, chaded by the branches of a huge Willow oak tree,

beside the road that passes north of the amphitheater, near the tomb of the unknowns.

Each day, small groups of people drift over, many of them obviously searching for

the grave. They pause and a few take off their hats, especially if they're veterans,

speaking in reverent tones.

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