Posted on 12/26/2010 6:53:43 AM PST by Saije
His name is Weissmiller, Adam J. Weissmiller, which is what first caught my attention when I met this young soldier the other day at a Subway restaurant on base at Fort Benning, Ga...
Although the name was spelled a little differently I still had to ask: “You any kin to Tarzan?” The reference was to Johnny Weissmuller, who was the most famous ape man of the movies.
“Cousins,” he replied with a grin...Weissmiller said his father was a retired lieutenant colonel and he grew up a military brat. “A lot of my family were military men, so I never considered doing anything else,” he said. “When I was in college at San Francisco State, Army recruiters came to campus. Most of the students were anti-military, very liberal and gave the recruiters such a hard time they had to call security. I signed up then and there just to show them where I stood.”
This young man has a knack for telling stories, making everything interesting. He is of the Mormon faith and had interesting stories about his two years as a missionary in Argentina; tales about another cousin who is a prize fighter and had 24 straight wins (15 by knockouts) before losing a decision to Danny Green in an IBO cruiserweight title fight...
His most interesting story was about his grandfather, Ralph Flores, a former boxer, electrician and amateur pilot, who made international headlines by living 49 days in sub-zero weather after his plane crashed in the Yukon Territory, just inside the Canadian border. He was caught in a snowstorm as he was flying from Fairbanks, Alaska, to San Bruno, Calif., and crashed into some trees on the side of a mountain. Seven weeks was the longest anyone had ever survived in those kinds of weather conditions.
(Excerpt) Read more at gadsdentimes.com ...
later,,,,,
arctic survival
Sheesh!
“The old guy was that tough, and they couldn’t do any better that cast those uber-libtards Ed Asner and Sally Struthers in the movie about him?”
I assume this film was made in the ‘70s when both Asner and Struthers were big celebrities due to their television shows. In those days, audiences loved to see their favorite tv stars in television movies ( I am assuming this was a made for tv film) playing roles not their usual sit com selves. It was also the era when leftist and immoral positions began to gain credibility with the general populous thanks to panderers like Norman Lear.
Thanks for the ping. I didn’t know toothpaste has food value.
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