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To: Eleutheria5

Thank you so much! I do need a refill, and this is just the thing I needed. BTW, at the link someone references Lee Marvin’s military career, by way of saying that both he Jimmy Stewart were war heroes. I knew about Stewart but not about Marvin. When I looked him up I learned this from the evil Wikipedia, which just delights me:

Marvin participated in 21 amphibious assaults on Japanese-held islands. He was wounded in action on June 18, 1944, while taking part in the assault on Mount Tapochau during the Battle of Saipan, in the course of which most of his company became casualties.[8] He was hit by machine gun fire, which severed his sciatic nerve,[9] and then was hit again in the foot by a sniper.[10] After over a year of medical treatment in naval hospitals, Marvin was given a medical discharge with the rank of private first class. He previously held the rank of corporal, but had been demoted for troublemaking.[10]


4 posted on 05/30/2024 12:27:27 AM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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To: JOHN ADAMS

I noticed in this viewing that Valance’s winning hand was “aces and eights,” the same that legend has it Wild Bill Hickock pulled right before being shot in the back, now known as the “Dead Man’s Hand.” Also noticed that Peabody, while staggering around drunk was reciting out loud Shakespeare’s Saint Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V. Always new things to see in a great work of art.


6 posted on 05/30/2024 12:37:27 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: JOHN ADAMS

“””” He previously held the rank of corporal, but had been demoted for troublemaking.””””

And that scenes show why, as Gomer Pyle would say, he was trouble!, trouble!, trouble!


19 posted on 05/30/2024 5:34:37 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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