Posted on 11/30/2017 11:22:42 AM PST by Eleutheria5
He was an honorary Marine, a Corporal, in fact.
I probably heard Jim sing
at the Indy 500 a dozen times
as a participant.
What a time!
Semper Fi, Gomer Pyle.
Rest in peace Jim Nabors, one of the few to ever be named an Honorary Marine. pic.twitter.com/B3m3RYAbPy— U.S. Marines (@USMC) November 30, 2017
Sorry to hear about the passing of Jim Nabors. I probably watched every episode in which the Gomer Pyle character appeared (both in Mayberry and then in the Marine setting). At times the episodes were annoyingly simplistic and formulaic, but usually I found them to be moderately amusing, and parts of them very funny. Nabors played the role well, and created an unforgettable character for the millions of persons who watched the shows.
That excerpt shows his vulnerability, though, and his innocent -- some might call it simple-minded -- niceness. He wants to do what's right and to live up to the expectations of others, but he finds it difficult. On that occasion he succeeds.
From what I’ve heard Jim Nabors too was a nice person. His homosexuality wouldn’t fit well with the traditional values of the shows in which he appears. He actually married his long-time sexual partner. So I think it’s probably worth mentioning here (and, though he wasn’t a political activist, in the summing up of his life he’d probably want something said about it).
I don’t much like the pro-homosexual (anti-traditional-religion) bias of much of our current pop culture, or some of its more aggressive political advocates. From what I’ve seen of the homosexuals I’ve known in my life, though — or, mostly, persons I suspected of being so before homosexuality became accepted (including some of my friends) — they’ve been nicer than average. I understand that some persons reject homosexuality on religious or moral grounds, and I can understand that too.
In any case, Jim Nabors was apparently a nice person, and a talented person, who in his acting represented something good in American culture (something supportive of the values that most of the persons here support). I believe he deserves credit for that, and as a fellow human being I regret his passing.
Oops, sorry, I meant to cite the longer version, not just start at the song that Reed13k cited -- YouTube of whole excerpt. It shows the characteristics I was discussing.
RIP.
Great entertainer.
An Indy race driver . . . wow!!!! Very neat that there are several people of notoriety who post on FR . . . I’m not one of them . . . LOL.
It's still a chayyayv mitah, whether the practitioner is "militant" or not.
Even MASH was set in Korea.
Dittos.
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