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Famous Veteran : Glenn Ford USMC USNAVY Reserve
TWS ^ | 2014 | TWS

Posted on 07/03/2018 5:01:00 PM PDT by eastforker

Actor. Born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford in Canada, when he was eight years old his father, a railroad executive, moved his family to Santa Monica, California. He performed in high school plays and then joined "West Coast", a traveling theater company. His film debut was in "Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence" (1939). After World War II started, he put his career on hold and enlisted in the United States Marines. In 1992, Ford was awarded the French Legion of Honor Medal for his service in France during the war aiding those fleeing from the Nazis. He also served in Vietnam as a member of the United States Naval Reserves

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KEYWORDS: fanousveteran; hollywood; veteran; ww2
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To: xrmusn

Marion Michell Morrison, not Robert.


21 posted on 07/03/2018 6:20:05 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

they did a lot of weird shit then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY


22 posted on 07/03/2018 6:20:48 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masss could be farts)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IatwoA00E0


23 posted on 07/03/2018 6:22:23 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masss could be farts)
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I am very much like the Moriearty guys personna

Jeez I try to chill...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IatwoA00E0


24 posted on 07/03/2018 6:28:43 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masss could be farts)
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Always my job to kick the mule.

We get there.


25 posted on 07/03/2018 6:31:25 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masss could be farts)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Didn’t sound right BUT that is what google ‘said’. I knew the Marion Morrison and threw in the middle for kicks..

Thanks..


26 posted on 07/03/2018 9:24:25 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If bacon kills you and smoking kills you, How come you smoke bacon to cure it?")
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To: Tailback

Eddie Arnold was a landing craft driver in WW11.


27 posted on 07/03/2018 10:48:58 PM PDT by octex
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To: Lurker

John Wayne’s real name was Marion Morrison.


28 posted on 07/04/2018 5:44:01 AM PDT by FrankR ( Winners NEVER cheat, and Cheaters NEVER win.)
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