Posted on 01/26/2013 12:38:06 PM PST by virgil283
Bob Keeshan's record of accomplishments in the Second War spanned both theaters -- he helped capture the Remagen Bridge. Then, he flew home in a blizzard to prevent the suicidal Grandfather Clock from jumping off a bridge.
Actually I don't mind mocking Keeshan one bit. He was a big government liberal as evidenced by his remarks in the early 1990s titled, "The Harried, Hurried Family", stating:
Public schools are, arguably, the most democratic of this nations democratic institutions; we serve everybody, that’s everybody. If we have challenges in our schools, and most of us believe we do, the solution lies in directly addressing those challenges, the solution is not in depriving public schools of the resources to do so and shunting public funds to private, selective institutions.
Nazi Palosie bottom center
It does look like Janet.
Ditto
Greg Packer
Captain Kangaroo & Lee Marvin, War Buddies?
Netlore Archive: In a story supposedly told by actor Lee Marvin on The Tonight Show, he served in the military with fellow U.S. Marine Bob ‘Captain Kangaroo’ Keeshan, whom he described as ‘the bravest man I ever knew.’
Description: Urban legend
Circulating since: March 2002
Status: Mostly false (see details below)
Example:
Email contributed by F. Abbott, March 20, 2002:
Subject: FW: Bravery
“Never judge a book by its cover.”
Dialog From a Johnny Carson “Tonight” Show. His guest was Lee Marvin. Johnny said, “Lee, I’ll bet a lot of people are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima and that during the course of that action, you earned the Navy Cross and were severely wounded.”
Lee Marvin’s response was:
“Yeah, yeah ... I got shot square in the ass and they gave me the Cross for securing a hot spot about halfway up Mount Suribachi. The bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys getting shot hauling you down. But Johnny, at Iwo, I served under the bravest man I ever knew. We both got the Cross the same day, but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison. The dumb bastard actually stood up on Red Beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. That Sergeant and I have been life long friends.”
“When they brought me off Suribachi we passed him and he lit a smoke and passed it to me lying on my belly on the litter. “Where’d they get you Lee?” he asked. “Well Bob, they shot me in the ass and if you make it home before me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse.”
“Johnny, I’m not lying, Sergeant Keeshan was the bravest man I ever knew!” You now know him as Bob Keeshan. You and the world know him as “Captain Kangaroo”.”
Analysis: Despite sundry grains of truth scattered throughout — including the fact that both Lee Marvin and Bob “Captain Kangaroo” Keeshan served in the military as Marines during World War II (Keeshan a reservist), and that Marvin really was wounded in the buttocks while storming a beachhead (though it happened in Saipan, not Iwo Jima) — the story above is mostly false.
According to their respective biographies, Marvin had already been injured and shipped back to the United States with a Purple Heart by the time Keeshan entered basic training. They could not have encountered one another in combat. Neither was awarded the Navy Cross.
At the age of 20, Lee Marvin was a private in the U.S. Marines 4th Division, part of the Allied landing force that invaded the Japanese-held Pacific island of Saipan on July 15, 1944. He was wounded three days later on July 18, spent the next 13 months in Navy hospitals recovering from a severed sciatic nerve, and was discharged in 1945.
Bob Keeshan signed up for the Marine Corps Reserve shortly before his 18th birthday in 1945. Since the war was all but over by the time he finished basic training, it’s unlikely Keeshan ever saw combat before completing his service a year later, let alone attained the rank of sergeant.
Those old enough to remember Lee Marvin’s occasional appearances on TV talk shows up until his death in 1987 will find the manner and spirit of the storytelling reminiscent of the man himself, but it seems unlikely he would have trumpeted such blatant lies about another man’s service record over national television, nor have I been able to find any evidence in the form of tapes or transcripts that prove he did so.
Update: A version of this message circulating since March 2003 includes an addendum claiming that Fred Rogers, host of public television’s “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood,” was an ex-Marine sniper (or, in another version, a Navy Seal) with dozens of wartime kills to his credit. This, too, is false.
Update: Bob Keeshan died on Friday, January 23, 2004.
Bottom Row - The Evil looking dude. Although, I have thought that maybe I should have treated him better in High School. Hmmm Nah, he deserved it!
By the way, the school was Arcadia High - Phoenix, AZ - Was his Jr. year - my Sophomore
Ha! He looks like my nephew in that picture.
Check out your (revised) thread!
And this clearly shows the dangers of hotlinking to a liberal website. The picture of a young Rush Limbaugh was replaced by one of an Obama image, yet the URL still shows:
http://bentcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Rush_Limbaugh.jpg
Amazing ... are they not frightened like a litte girl by everything....
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