The Boy Too Small to Serve

The Boy Too Small to Serve What a sharecropper's son from Texas taught America about the courage that matters mostHi The Marines said no. The Navy said no. The Army paratroopers looked at him, five foot five, 112 pounds, a kid from the cotton fields of Hunt County, Texas, and turned him away. Ha. You're too small. Too young. Too poor. Too nothing, by every metric the military uses to measure a man. His name was Audie Leon Murphy. And he would become the most decorated American combat soldier...