Audie Murphy

[DJButler]

Anybody else discovered something new about Holywood actors, I

knew Audie Murphy was a decorated war hero but didn't know he wrote poetry until i found this on the web.

 

Audie L. Murphy

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.

 

Written in 1948 by Audie Murphy