Articles written by Dennis Mccarthy

Dennis McCarthy, Los Angeles Times on April 15, 2010|Jun 1, 2023

Another example of the Greatest Generation. Bless them all. Before we get to Audie Murphy's wife, some background on her husband. He was born in rural Farmersville, Texas, and was only 46 years old when he died in a plane crash in the Virginia Mts. He was bothered from PTSD after he came back from War II, and it affected him all his life. Few young people know who Audie Murphy was or how big a war hero he really was. He was born into a poor sharecropper family in rural Texas. He started picking... Full story