It doesn't get any more black and white than this.
When author Richard Botkin speaks to groups of people 55 and up, he always asks who they remember as the battlefield face of World War II?
The answer is always the same. Audie Murphy.
"Handsome, self-effacing, humble kid from a poor Texas family," says Botkin, author of "Ride the Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Honor and Triumph.
