I'm watching him in the Destrey movie again. I liked all of his movies, and I was proud of him.

If you read several medal of honor citations (as I have), after a while you will notice a pattern. Winners break down into 2 general catagories: Sacrificers & Beserkers. I've found that Sacrificers increased after the advent of the John Wayne film "Sands of Iwo Jima", where jumping on top of hand grenades to save others was first seen by a widespread audience. Large numbers of these appeared in Vietnam. Beserkers, on the other hand, are those that snap when seeing their buddies being slaughtered and go full force attack mode at the enemy. Murphy falls in this camp, and with over 240 dead Nazis to his credit in close ground fighting combat while receiving serious but survivable wounds, is a superlative example of a real life true action hero. He killed to save the lives of his people, and this is true heroism in it's purest form. It's too bad that his kind is not "politically correct" (outside of military aficionados) in these soft and cowardly days..