He was 16 years old when his mother died, and he watched as his siblings were doled out to an orphanage or to relatives. After his father deserted the family, he helped raise his 11 brothers and sisters, dropping out of school in the fifth grade to earn money picking cotton. Murphy grew up on a sharecropper's farm in Hunt County, Texas. He was Audie Murphy, the baby-faced Texas farmboy who became an American legend. Reluctantly, he settled on the infantry, and ultimately became the most-decorated heroes of World War II. The paratroopers wouldn't have him, either. He wanted to join the Marines, but he was too short.
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