Mel Gibson again acting in and producing a wonderful movie about the Vietnam War...thank Mel and thanks for a great thread Dolly!
Posted on 11/11/2005 8:55:32 AM PST by DollyCali
oh Bob! thank you...
you have something for everything it seems.
When I was little, I recall the actors but would have never considered it admirable etc that they had served in the military.
I had done the Picture It BIG files quite a few weeks ago, saved it & forgot about it. This AM, I was looking for something else & tripped on it. Thought I would work it up for our Finest Thread. It kept getting bigger :&: bigger (know that story?) and just too much for a single post, so thought it best for a sep thread. I have noted there is NOT a whole lot of response to movie type posts anyway at the Finest. It didn't take terribly long. Copy/paste expert that I am!
thanks Aqua!
Who can forget Bob Hope's contributions to the morale of our heroes over what? 60 years?
Thanks for posting.
I agree, I know some people that were in real MASH units in the Korean War. They hated "MASH". I can't picture him in a real uniform.
You forgot to mention Jane Fonda who was an anti-aircraft gunner in the North Vietnamese Army during Vietnam.
funny but MUCH too sad!
I saw the movie on big screen on it's release in HONG KONG!!!
was in a theater with the sound english but chinese subtitles.
very strange as the audience would laugh when there was nothing funny & vice versa. Of course you know some things are lost/added with subtitles.
Purple Heart -- Korea
Russell Johnson fought with the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. He flew 44 combat missions as a crewman in B-24 Liberator bombers, and won seven decorations, including a Purple Heart for injuries sustained when his plane was shot down over the Philippines.
Have I missed a mention of Bill Cosby? He was a Navy Corpsman. As of last year a picture of him and his team was still hanging in the basement of the Bethesda Naval Hospital, aka "National Naval Medical Center."
I apparently missed quite a few! Good thing this wasn't a PhD project, huh?
You're welcome.
Wow! You missed Steve McQueen, the King of Cool. USMC, 1947.
He was born Terence Steven McQueen in Beech Grove, Indiana. He never knew his father -- although McQueen did find the house where he lived approximately a year after his father's death. McQueen's father abandoned his wife and child shortly after McQueen was born. He was raised in Slater, Missouri by his uncle, where his mother left him. At the age of 12 McQueen moved with his mother to Los Angeles. When he was 14, his mother sent him to a reformatory school. McQueen later gave huge gifts to the school because of his belief that it helped him find some focus during those restless years. Soon McQueen left the school and drifted before joining the Marines in 1947. In 1952, he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and auditioned to study at Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio in New York. Of the 2000 people who auditioned that year, only McQueen and Martin Landau were accepted. McQueen made his Broadway debut in 1955 in A Hatful of Rain.
Actually the real truth is if you will look how close the mike is to her mouth which is partially openned, she was singing patriotic NVA songs that she had learned.
When they interviewed her this year about the incident, she claimed she didn't know they were taking pictures and someone just asked her to sit on the gun.
What a piece of trash she is.
Aloha Ronnie was there. Happy Veteran's Day man!
Francis
Wasn't Alan Alda the son of an Alan Alda? Perhaps it was his dad who was the veteran. Can't see Hawkeye as ever having been a GI.
Frank
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