by

Audie Murphy on the numbing effects of combat….

Seems as though nothing can get me excited any more – you know, enthused?  Before the war, I would get excited and enthused about a lot of things, but not anymore.

–Audie Murphy to Director John Huston, 1950

6057464585_7bfb243d6e_z

Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, and John Dierkes in The Red Badge of Courage, MGM Studios, 1951