Posted on 07/08/2012 9:52:54 PM PDT by Steelers6
Ermes Efron Borgnino was born in Hamden, Conn., on Jan. 24, 1917, the son of Italian immigrant parents. The family lived in Milan when the boy was 2 to 7, then returned to Connecticut, where he attended school in New Haven.
Borgnine joined the Navy in 1935 and served on a destroyer during World War II. He weighed 135 pounds when he enlisted. He left the Navy 10 years later, weighing exactly 100 pounds more.
"I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything," he said in 1956. "The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/07/08/oscar-winning-film-star-ernest-borgnine-dies-at-5/#ixzz20673XOtk
So many of the great names of Hollywood and pro sports teams of his generation served proudly and honorably in the military, many in actual combat.
Compare that with the Nancy Boys of today who think they are courageous for supporting open homosexualism.
Thank you for your service to America and for the many great and varied roles. Fair winds and following seas, Mr. Borgnine.
His bio says that he was born in Hamden, CONN.
Aye, Aye, Skipper...one last R & R trip to New Caledonia before shoving off to that big Lake in the Clouds. Perhaps ol’ Leadbottom will be waiting at the checkerboard. RIP.
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