Posted on 01/10/2022 5:22:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
Although he's now one of the most lauded comedians in Hollywood, Larry David never saw himself becoming a writer or a comedian. After graduating from the University of Maryland in 1970, he was lost and had little direction from his parents, who wanted him to take a job as a mailman.
The future writer for "Saturday Night Live," co-creator of "Seinfeld" and creator of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" joined the Army Reserve for one very important reason: to avoid going to Vietnam. He regretted it almost immediately.
He had never held a weapon, and he was terrible at push-ups and sit-ups. Basic training did not go well for David. That wasn't even the worst part of it, he told Howard Stern in a 2015 interview.
"I had an apartment in New York and I would go to Brooklyn for the weekend, stay with my parents, and spend all Saturday and Sunday at Floyd Bennett Field in a freezing airplane hangar," he said.
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Funny; they didn't look Jewish! :-)
Seriously, I'm so glad you posted that list, and kudos to them! The suburb I live in outside Baltimore is a largely Jewish area, and several of the leaders in our VFW and American Legion posts around here are Jewish, as were the fathers of many of my friends. The U.S. was more united during that war than it ever has been since.
I had no idea of who he was and read the article out of curiosity. I wonder if he had the audacity to use the GI Bill, a grifter like him probably would because “he was sticking it to the military.”
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