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Comparing The Sabaton Song To Hell And Back
To hell and back sabaton music video remake

The Sabaton song is also based on the 1955 film called To Hell and Back which is based on the 1949 autobiography of the same name and is an account of Murphy’s war history and his personal story in the war.
This is the plot of the film and understanding it will help you to understand the music video
Young Murphy (Gordon Gebert) grows up in a large, poor sharecropper family in Texas. His father deserts them around 1939–40, leaving his mother (Mary Field) barely able to feed her nine children. As the eldest son, Murphy works from an early age to help support his siblings, and when his mother dies in 1941 he becomes head of the family. His brothers and sisters are sent to an elder sister, Corrine, to
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The line “crosses grow on Anzio” was the poem that Murphy wrote after the war and his victory over PTSD.
I believe that this is one of their most famous songs and is about one of the most decorated war heroes, when he came back from the war he became a big movie star, in the film Rambo 3 where he basically takes out half an army is actually quite close to what he actually did in the war, part of the poetry that he wrote was incorporated into the

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