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Born the seventh of 12 children in a sharecropper family in Hunt County, Texas, Audie Murphy dropped out of school in fifth grade in order to pick cotton for a dollar a day. His was a hard upbringing and very difficult life.

Like many young men in rural areas, he became proficient with a rifle and as a hunter. He had always wanted to be a soldier, and after the attack on Pearl Harbor he attempted to enlist, but the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps turned him away because he was both underage and, as a slight 5-foot-5, also underweight. With the help of his sister, he falsified documents to show he was old enough to serve, as did many at the time, and the Army accepted him for service in 1942.