Afterward, when he was informed that he was to receive the Distinguished Service Cross for his valor that August morning, he stated: “I won the medal, but Lattie, who was the bravest man I ever knew won only death for himself.”[230] Indeed, after the war Murphy gave the precious decoration away to Tipton’s daughter, who, as a nine year old, had seen her father march away to war in 1942 never to return. Now nearly half a century later, a middle-aged woman herself, she still treasures that medal.
