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9/24 Levin list of actors who were in the Armed Forces?
Posted on 09/24/2015 5:31:44 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
He had a list of people I remembered. I had no idea about some of them, a lot oh yeah, I mean I know about Audie Murphy, but some of those were quite unexpected. I actually teared up a couple of times from old memories not seen since at least the early 70s.
I need a link people.
And I had no idea Lee Marvin was in Arlington, She Who Must Be Obeyed and I would have paid him some respect the way we did that Texas boy, when we were up yonder.
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This ain't the same country it once was, I am shamed to say.
Yeah, call me Captain Obvious, but something about that really drove it home to me. That and a coworker starting in on me early this morning about what "bigots Trump and Carson are." It was like he was reading an email from frickin' Daily Kos or something. But not to worry, I deal with this guy every day, ain't skeered.
To: West Texas Chuck
Very few people got out of fighting in WW2, the big one. Most of the actors of that generation served, with a few exceptions.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:32:44 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: miss marmelstein
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:34:59 PM PDT
by
stormer
To: stormer; miss marmelstein
Yeah, that.
But it was the guys who lied about their age. What 16 yo would do that now?
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:36:55 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
( NOTE TO RNC: I will not be voting for another Bush. Ever. No matter what his last name is.)
To: West Texas Chuck
Jimmy Stewart is probably one of the most well known. Even after the war he was in the reserves.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:37:15 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: stormer
John Wayne didn’t serve in the Armed Forces.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:38:26 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: stormer
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:38:34 PM PDT
by
uncitizen
(Make America Great Again!)
To: West Texas Chuck
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:40:04 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: West Texas Chuck
Audie Murphy loved the army - he got plenty of fresh, good food when he had grown up in an (if memory is right) abandoned railway car with only jam and bread to eat. Truly, the poorest of the Depression poor.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:40:25 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: stormer
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:40:49 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: All
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:43:10 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: miss marmelstein
Audie Murphy was a farm boy and lived in a farm house and ate about the same as most farm people.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:43:49 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: miss marmelstein
Yes Paul Newman (who was a hs classmate of my Mom in Cleveland) was in the Navy in WWII.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:44:03 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
To: West Texas Chuck
Don't know if he was on Levin's list or not but here's one that really surprised me.
Lieutenant colonel (Ret.) USMC, Rob Riggle.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:44:19 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: stormer
John Wayne didn’t serve but he did wonders for morale and the troops liked him a lot.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:45:14 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: West Texas Chuck
When you pay your respects to Lee Marvin, you’ll find boxer Joe Louis right next to him.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:45:55 PM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: laplata
stormer knows that....
That was the point...
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:46:08 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Obama practices "religion" in the mirror.)
To: miss marmelstein
You know, that is a mighty good point. I’ve never been hungry. I mean, I’ve been hungry and then I went to the fridge and made a sammich.
I never been hungry like my daddy’s daddy. But this old world ain’t through with me yet, I’ll get back to ya :)
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:46:34 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
( NOTE TO RNC: I will not be voting for another Bush. Ever. No matter what his last name is.)
To: uncitizen
Charleton Heston? Army Air Force. World War II.
To: laplata
Nope, he had some “medical.” I don’t know the particulars.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:47:29 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
( NOTE TO RNC: I will not be voting for another Bush. Ever. No matter what his last name is.)
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