But perhaps he also thought of the advancements he had witnessed: economic revival and a new standard of living, an unpopular war imperfectly ended, and a world still thriving despite the threat of atomic devastation. Two world wars, nations devastated and then reborn, and the constant menace of a new enemy armed with terrible weapons.

He looked down at the speech, his last to the nation he had served for almost a half-century, and his thoughts no doubt turned to the tumultuous events of his life.

The president sat at his desk in the Oval Office as technicians scurried about setting up lights and cameras. Join us as we teach you about the life and heroism of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WW2. Listen now and join us in awe at what happened next. I don’t need to tell you the odds of the eighteen men winning against such a force, because there are no odds. Six of these advanced on Murphy and his eighteen men. It fired an 88-millimeter shell, the most powerful of the German artillery, and could decimate an entire town without any support. To put it in perspective, one Tiger Tank could take out more than twelve American Sherman tanks before being crippled enough to be put down. A single Tiger tank was near impossible to destroy by Allied armor. Faced with just these odds, there is no strategic or tactical way Murphy’s men could hold the line. First, consider eighteen men with two armored vehicles against two hundred infantry. I will stop here for a moment and give you an opportunity to take in this scene. As the morning fog cleared, over two hundred German infantrymen and six Mark VI Tiger Tanks appeared and began a counterattack. On the morning of January 26th, Murphy and his men saw movement in the tree line ahead.

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