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We Need More Cultural Icons Like Jimmy Stewart
The Federalist ^ | December 7, 2020 | Elle Reynolds

Posted on 12/07/2020 9:51:06 AM PST by Kaslin

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21 posted on 12/07/2020 11:32:04 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: max americana

Lee Marvin was wounded at Saipan. He is buried at Arlington.

https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApps?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=55680

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Marvin


22 posted on 12/07/2020 11:34:36 AM PST by DFG
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To: LouAvul

Trust but verify!


23 posted on 12/07/2020 11:59:15 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Fai Mao

Agreed.


24 posted on 12/07/2020 12:05:12 PM PST by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: Chickensoup; Kaslin; EagleOne; max americana; DesertRhino; Vision

Chickensoup,

Yes, Jimmy Stewart was an actor, but based upon several biographies of him that I’ve read, he was unsure if he could return to being an actor after the war. If you look at the pictures he was in pre-1941, most were of the “light hearted” variety. His post war pictures show a man who was changed, physically and mentally, from the pre-war man. His post-war movies were consistently of a more serious vein. And look at his face, one can see how he aged during the war years and his combat tour flying B-24s with the Eighth Air Force.

I recommend two biographies of him and his service in the USAAF: “Jimmy Stewart - Bomber Pilot” by Starr Smith, and “Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe” by Robert Matzen.


25 posted on 12/07/2020 12:15:20 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: SkyPilot

Gene Teirney. Now there was a woman!


26 posted on 12/07/2020 12:26:35 PM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: GreyFriar

thank you .

Of course people are changed by war. Or any other event where they face the pathos of human existence.

But to call these experiences PTSD is to minimize the totality of the experiences.


27 posted on 12/07/2020 12:34:29 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: nutmeg

Unless we separate from the Leftardniki, those days will never come back.

Different people, different time, different country.

A much BETTER place, then.


28 posted on 12/07/2020 2:29:35 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: PGR88

#8 You would have liked Grace Kelly looking at you after she was done with you in the ‘rear window’....

The westerns that Jimmy Stewart did in the 50’s are among the very best made.


29 posted on 12/07/2020 3:38:09 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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