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Murphy kärsi traumaperäisestä stressihäiriöstä, ja tuli 1960-luvun puolessavälissä riippuvaiseksi unilääkkeistä. Selviydyttyään riippuvuudesta hän puhui asiasta julkisesti ja vaati hallitusta parantamaan sotaveteraanien mielenterveysongelmien tutkimusta ja hoitoa.
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This song is about Audie Murphy and contains many references to his time at the army and work afterwards. For example, 'To Hell And Back' is also the title of his film about him, where he is starring himself (he also was an actor), large parts of the lyrics are from his poem 'The Crosses Grow On Anzio', 'a man of the 15th, a man of can do' references to his time in the 15th infantry regiment et cetera. He received 27 awards in total, the latest in 2013.
THE CROSSES GROW ON ANZIO
Oh, gather ‘round me, comrades
And listen while I weep;
Of a war, a war, a war…
where hell is six feet deep.
Along the shore, the cannons roar.
Oh how can a soldier sleep?
The going’s slow on Anzio
And hell is six feet deep.
Praise be to God for this captured sod
That’s rich where blood does seep;
With yours and mine, like butchered swine;
And hell is six feet deep.
That death does wait
There’s no debate;
No triumph will we reap
The crosses grow on Anzio,
Where hell is six feet deep.
. . . Audie Murphy, 1948
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