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https://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-transition/famous-veteran-kris-kristofferson.html

"I want you to know I'm an Army brat; I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops; I identify with them. But I sure as hell don't identify with the bastards who sent them over there."

1 posted on 07/12/2018 5:45:40 PM PDT by eastforker
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IIRC, he used his Tenn. National Guard flight time to deliver a tape of Sunday Mornin’ Coming Down to Johnny Cash’s estate when Cash had ignored his other attempts to hear Kris’ song.


2 posted on 07/12/2018 5:50:43 PM PDT by llevrok (Established 1950.)
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Misdiagnosed illness was Lyme.

Hate those damn ticks:

https://www.lymedisease.org/kristofferson-huffpo-parish/


3 posted on 07/12/2018 5:58:50 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: eastforker

One of the best songwriters of all time.


6 posted on 07/12/2018 6:06:50 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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He did the interdiction to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozpdBvB0hek “The 8th of November”
7 posted on 07/12/2018 6:07:10 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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He’s got 8 kids(that we know about).


11 posted on 07/12/2018 6:18:46 PM PDT by BBell (es-tu stupide):>()
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Fascinating.

Thanks for the insight.


12 posted on 07/12/2018 6:19:17 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES-GOD WITH US)
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Johnny Cash was in the Air Force.

He wrote an article in “Gun World” magazine about a Mannlicher Schoenauer rifle he bought in Germany. He said he had always wanted one. I can’t recall the caliber.


13 posted on 07/12/2018 6:32:38 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: eastforker; waterhill

Ping....


16 posted on 07/12/2018 6:50:27 PM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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What a guy!


18 posted on 07/12/2018 6:55:32 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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I will say up front. I can’t stand him. He was in a movie, I think it was Semi Tough. In it he and Nick Nolte played pro football players.

They showed a scene of them bare from the waist I guess. I remember thinking that Nolte looked like he really could have played, but Kristofferson would have been broken in two the first play. I am also surprised he was a ranger.

He certainly was a great song writer tho.


20 posted on 07/12/2018 6:58:10 PM PDT by yarddog
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Retired 1SG US Army Jumpmaster and retired foreign service. Love Kris Kristofferson; his songs and music are my favorites of most all favorite songs for playing on my Martin gee-tar. Sunday Morning Coming Down, Why Me Lord, and his songs about love and lovers....


26 posted on 07/12/2018 7:13:25 PM PDT by Jumper
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In Vigilante Force, he plays an amoral vigilante.

The scene in which he pitilessly guns down Victoria Principal — after first telling her he's going to kill her — is one of the most horrifying things I ever saw in a movie. He's absolutely evil, a stone-cold killer, completely convincing.

28 posted on 07/12/2018 7:22:13 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Forgiving Kris for any lapses due to his family heritage, he showed his true colors when he co-starred in "A Star is Born" circa 1976:

Everyone to his own taste, said the man who kissed the cow.

30 posted on 07/12/2018 7:40:22 PM PDT by logician2u
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He turned down a teaching position at West Point to pursue his dream of becoming a successful songwriter. ................. And all these years I thought he went to West Point. Well now I see that it was based on his non existent teaching position. I went to West Point, several times.


33 posted on 07/12/2018 9:04:24 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (?? forgetaboutit.)
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