User talk:Ron coulson

In regards to this being the AUDIE L. MURPHY Section, I would like to share some poems I wrote for him with all of you. He was my childhood hero since age 5 & here 57 years later, he is still my hero.

HELMETS IN THE DUST

WE WERE THE HELMETS WORN IN THE WAR WE HOLD THE STORIES OF A TIME BEFORE WE SAW THE GLORY, THE HISTORY, THE GORE, NOW WE ARE MOTIONLESS ON THE FLOOR

WE GATHER DUST EACH PASSING DAY NO ONE HERE TO SWEEP IT AWAY WE PROTECTED THOSE THAT WORE OUR STEEL BODIES THAT NOW LAY ON THE FLOOR

WE SAW ACTION IN SICILY, FRANCE AND MORE, WE ARE THE HELMETS NOW ON THE FLOOR WE HEARD THE SHELLS, THE SCREAMS AND MORE, WE FELT THE PAIN OF THOSE WHO WORE OUR STEEL BODIES THAT NOW LAY ON THE FLOOR

WE DID OUR BEST TO KEEP THEM SAFE AND NOW WE LAY HERE IN THIS DUSTY PLACE HERE IN THE DARKNESS WE STILL HEAR THEIR NAMES AUDIE, FRANKIE, PAUL AND JAMES WE DID OUR JOB TO KEEP THEM ALL SAFE THAT WAS OUR PURPOSE IN THAT HORRIBLE PLACE

FIFTY, OR SO, YEARS HAVE PASSED BY                OUR BODIES ARE DUSTY, OUR LEATHER IS DRY NO ONE NEED WEAR US ANYMORE THERE'S NO HATRED OR CONFLICT TO CALL UP A WAR WE ARE THE HELMETS OF A BYGONE WAR GATHERING DUST ON THIS CELLAR FLOOR

Dedicated to Audie L. Murphy

Ronald Keat Coulson

THE BOY WHO WAS BORN UNDER A TEXAS MOON

COME SIT WITH ME CHILDREN, COME SIT FOR A SPELL, FOR I HAVE A STORY I AM COMPELLED TO TELL.... OF A BOY FROM TEXAS, ONE OF YOUR OWN, WHO ASKED FOR NOTHING AND GAVE OF HIS OWN A BOY FROM THE CROSSROADS OF KENT COUNTY HE CAME, FRECKLES ABUNDANT, AUDIE MURPHY WAS HIS NAME

YOUR PARENTS MAY KNOW HIM, YOUR GRANDPARENTS TOO, FOR AUDIE WAS NO STRANGER TO BUT A FEW. LIKE THE FRONTIERSMEN BEFORE HIM, DAVEY CROCKETT AND DANIEL BOONE, AUDIE WAS SPECIAL....FOR HE WAS BORN UNDER A TEXAS MOON.

HE ROSE UP FROM HARDSHIP FROM WHERE HE CAME HE WAS HONEST AND LOYAL AND BORE NO SHAME NOW SHUSH UP AND BE SETTLED AND YOU WILL HEAR THE STORY OF THIS MAN YOU'LL ALL COME TO REVERE

IT WAS 1942, A LONG TIME AGO YOUR COUNTRY, AMERICA, WAS IN A WAR AND AUDIE CHOSE TO GO   HE WAS JUST 18, BUT READY TO BE AN AMERICAN SOLDIER PRESERVING DEMOCRACY HE WAS SENT TO AFRICA AND EUROPE TOO, HE FAUGHT WITH DISTINCTION AND MADE IT THROUGH DECORATED FOR BRAVERY, NO COWARD WAS HE    3 YEARS IN COMBAT HE TURNED OUT TO BE THE 'MOST' DECORATED SOLDIER YOU'LL EVER SEE THE MEDAL OF HONOR, AND MANY MORE, WERE BESTOWED ON AUDIE DURING THAT WAR HE RETURNED HOME A HERO MANY DID SAY, THE BEST THERE EVER WAS, THE 'MOST' DECORATED TO THIS DAY.

HE WENT ON TO HOLLYWOOD, WHERE HE WOULD BE         THE BEST WESTERN COWBOY STAR FOR NEARLY A QUARTER CENTURY. JOHN WAYNE, ROY ROGERS, GENE AUTRY TOO, THEY WERE GREAT COWBOYS, BUT GIVE AUDIE HIS DUES HE CAME FROM TEXAS AND BECAME A GREAT STAR, HE WAS CHOSEN AND VOTED 'BEST WESTERN' STAR FROM CALIFORNIA TO ENGLAND, EVERYONE PROCLAIMED, AUDIE WAS THE 'BEST' AND THE 'BEST' HE REMAINED.

FAME AND FORTUNE FOLLOWED HIS NAME BUT AUDIE WAS SHY AND NEVER MIXED IN THAT GAME NO HOLLYWOOD PARTIES, NO SCANDALOUS AFFAIRS, FOR AUDIE HAD CONVICTION AND WOULDN'T SPLIT HAIRS.

HE LEFT US A LEGACY FOR ALL OF US TO SEE THAT HONOR AND PATRIOTISM JUST HAVE TO BE! THERE'S NO PLACE WITHOUT THEM IN OUR LIVES, FOR WITHOUT THEM THE SOLE PERISHES AND NOTHING SURVIVES

SO, MY CHILDREN, LISTEN TO ME, LOOK UP TO AUDIE AND HELP MAKE YOUR OWN HISTORY SET AN EXAMPLE, BE ALL YOU CAN CARRY ON IN HIS WAY FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN HONOR YOUR ELDERS, RESPECT OTHERS TOO, BE PROUD YOU ARE AN AMERICAN, THAT'S ALL HE'D EXPECT OF YOU.

DEDICATED TO AUDIE L. MURPHY

RONALD KEAT COULSON