First I've ever heard that Iron Eyes Cody was really Sicilian.
Yeah, we had the "Don't Be A Litterbug" campaigns, and of course there was always Smokey the Bear. I could live with that stuff, though. Just made common sense.
‘...and of course there was always Smokey The Bear.”
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Remember back in the day when that commercial said “only you can prevent ‘forest’ fires?” Well, they burned all the damned forests down so now it says “only you can prevent’wildfires’.
Actually he was born in Kaplan, Louisiana (just down the road from me) to Sicilian immigrant parents. His real last name was "de Corti".