The Life of American Hero and Old Hollywood Icon Audie Murphy

Audie received funeral services in California and Farmersville, Texas, before being buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. Soldiers fired a salute as his family, fellow veterans, and admirers gathered to remember him.

When Arlington later added gold lettering to Medal of Honor recipients’ headstones, his family requested that his inscription remain plain, believing that was what he would have preferred. His grave eventually became the cemetery’s second most visited, surpassed only by John F. Kennedy’s.