Hollywood Stars - Veteran Patriots

Dolly Howard | November 11, 2005 | DollyCali

[DollyCali]

That is a wonderful page you developed. My profile page is under construction & I will be having a set of links to great web pages. I will include yours!!!!

thank you!

[DollyCali]

I didn't know that about Carole Lombard. thanks

[Victoria Delsoul]

You're welcome. He was a great guy.

[Liberty Valance]

Julia Child worked for Wild Bill Donovan in the OSS...

Though Julia would later say, modestly, "I was just a file clerk," she had a high security clearance for her work, which included all classified papers for the invasion of the Malaysian peninsula. She tracked sensitive documents, dispatches, and espionage/sabotage under the South East Asia Command, then headed by Mountbatten. A colleague in Air Force Intelligence, Byron Martin, stated that Julia "was privy to every top secret ... which required a person of unquestioned loyalty, of rock-solid integrity, of unblemished lifestyle, of keen intelligence." And Betty MacDonald McIntosh, who later wrote a book about the women of the OSS, Sisterhood of Spies (United States Naval Institute, 1998), reported, "Morale in her section could not be higher."

http://www.moaa.org/magazine/January2003/f_juliachild.asp

[Freebird Forever]

Ice T

U.S. Army Rangers (1979 - 1981)

[Beth528]

Here is your picture..

[Darksheare]

Hmm.. not sure.
All of my sketches are of different subjects, and i haven't written poetry that would fit.
*hmm*

[Buffettfan]

This is when Hollywood was inhabitated by REAL people.

[Eaker]

Thanks!

I was amazed at all of it.

It really makes it personal that they are all my pictures.

[DollyCali]

I had over a thousand pix from DC/monument area that I want to work up. As you well know it takes time to do this, then post to server & then put into decent HTML form. I have spent more time than usual at the computer recovering from bike spill.. Have done quite a few big projects but so many remain. Thanks for sharing Eaker!

[DollyCali]

that is okay. Just checking. Never know what "artists" have in their stash

[DollyCali]

any poetry????

[Darksheare]

True.
I do have an aimage of a rabbit holding a shotgun.. which is a reference to artillery.
("Gun Bunny" to be precise.. it is supposed to be an 'insult' to 13B's, but I always thought it was funny personally. So I made the sketch.)

[DollyCali]

pretty good huh? many uses.. My pledge, 2nd Amendment advocates, military, hollywood... thanks for posting in "whole" form Beth!

[lysie]

Excellent, Dolly. Thanks.

[Dr Stormfist]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but most of the Hollywood stars during WWII were out selling War Bonds and leading drives for supplies for the war effort.

I doubt you will ever see anything like that again, coming out of Hollywood.

[NicknamedBob]

"any poetry????"

Just the one. But I learned only recently that Jimmy Stewart, (yes the Jimmy Stewart), flew a mission in Viet Nam!

Okay, you wanted poetry...




Scotty’s Beam-Up

Scotty got his beam-up. I’m sure it went quite well.
There’s just no way an engineer would ever end in He!!.
Oh, my, the consternation! The divvils would be glum,
As after only minutes there, the broken things would Hum!

That AC that was useful just for making He!!ish noise,
Would soon be working smoothly, and no Freon it employs.
The water taps would flow again, and fevered thirsts would slake,
And Charon’s boat could cruise about, out on a gentle lake.

The lifts would be put in order, and commerce could resume,
That backlog of requests for ice was reaching to the moon!
The problem this engenders, (and who the devil cares?)
Is that the engineer might then check out the stuff upstairs.

I’m sure that he’d be welcome, and glad to see his mates,
But I just know he’d soon be putting oil upon those Gates!
He’d want to swing them wide, I think, to bring a truck though there.
‘Cause with his eye for trouble, even Heaven needs repair!

NicknamedBob . . . . . . . . . . . July 20, 2005

[Aquamarine]

Wow Dolly, where did you find the time to do this? It's very inspiring, thanks.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Nice!

[NicknamedBob]

"any poetry???? "

Hey! Guess what I found!

Veteran’s Day

On Veteran’s Day, we celebrate,
In quiet moments, contemplate.
A holiday for civil workers,
Government folks, and other shirkers,

Ask them yourself, about the con,
“Are you essential?” Mais oui, non?
When evil storms blow into town,
The government offices all shut down.

So they’re off from work upon this day,
While all the Veterans still earn pay,
Having finished the job they were given to do.
They have different work now, that they must see through.

In trenches, on beaches, and planes in the air,
They went off to fight with scarcely a care,
At least so it seemed for they smiled all the while,
And they finished their work with admirable style.

Not once did they ask for much more than their smokes,
And they tell the old stories as if they were jokes,
Although we don't know what the day is about,
Today, while they work, they’re still sorting things out.

NicknamedBob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 9, 2004