[Trailer Trash]

"The award itself - a stuffed ready-to-eat crow on a silver platter"

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Hey TT .....How ya doing ? Hope all is well ! BTW heres and E-mail I want to share !!

Subject: Compare the Brave Entertainers of 1943 with today's Stars



The Entertainers of 2003 have been in all of the news media lately.

It seems that Newspapers, Television and Radio has been more than ready to put them and their message before the public.



I would like to remind you of what the entertainers of 1943 were doing, (60 years ago). Most of these brave men have since passed on.



Alec Guinness (Star Wars) operated a British Royal Navy landing craft on D-Day.

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James Doohan ("Scotty" on Star Trek) landed in Normandy with the U.S. Army on D-Day.

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Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was a R.A.F. pilot who was shot down, held prisoner and tortured by the Germans.

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David Niven was a Sandhurst graduate and Lt. Colonel of the British Commandos in Normandy.

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James Stewart flew 20 missions as a B-24 pilot in Europe.

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Clark Gable (Mega-Movie Star when war broke out) was a waist gunner flying missions on a B-17 in Europe.

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Charlton Heston was an Army Air Corps Sergeant in Kodiak.

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Earnest Borgnine was a U.S. Navy Gunners Mate 1935-1945.

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Charles Durning was a U.S. Army Ranger at Normandy.

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George C. Scott was a U.S. Marine.

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Eddie Albert (Green Acres TV) was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroic action as a U.S. Naval officer aiding Marines at the horrific battle on the island of Tarawa in the Pacific Nov.1943.

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Brian Keith served as a Marine rear gunner in several actions against the Japanese on Rabal in the Pacific.

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Lee Marvin was a marine on Saipan when he was wounded.

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John Russell was a Marine on Guadalcanal.

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Robert Ryan was a U.S. Marine who served with the O.S.S. in Yugoslavia.

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Tyrone Power (an established movie star when Pearl Harbor was bombed) joined the Marines, was a pilot flying supplies into, and wounded Marines out of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

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Audie Murphy, little guy from Texas, most decorated serviceman of WWII.

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I wish I had room to tell you more about Actor Sterling Hayden and an actor by the name of Peter J. Ortiz (Twelve O'clock High, Rio Grande and The Wings of Eagles), but this would turn into a book.

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There is a huge gap between the heroics and patriotism of the actors in 1943 and the cowardly despicable posturing of the Hollywood crowd of today. Most of them have no education with substance, never held a real job, attended some back street acting school, and now they are self proclaimed experts on everything. And the media cannot wait to interview them on world affairs.


Stay Safe Trailer Trash !!

[FactQuest]

Jumping into the thread quite late...

Very funny, I like that.

A bit premature, don't you think? I mean, until our troops are home (at least, as many of them as we want home) and Iraq is peaceful and pro-American, or at least not anti-American, then we don't know yet, do we?

The war went great - our boys and girls in uniform ROCK!!!
But, are we safer now, or not? Will we be, 5 years from now, or not? Isn't it a bit early to call it a rousing success? What if Iraq tries to go theocratic, like Iran? Are we going to use troops to prevent that, and if so, how?