Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers? Has anyone ever heard of this before?

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[dwilli]

Think it did happen but it was after a local kiddie show
in Chicago. I remember hearing the actual clip on an outtake clip over the years.

[My Dog Likes Me]

I think Lee Marvin received the Purple Heart.
Nobody seemed to realize this until he starred in "The Big Red One."
As for Captain K.,- God Bless him! He joined the Marines and then the war ended.
Two great patriots, in my book.

[My Dog Likes Me]

Quick follow-up.
I just read a Lee Marvin bio that says he was wounded in his butt by the enemy on Saipan in 1944. Severed his sciatic nerve. He was sent home.

[Tall_Texan]

...and Pee Wee Herman was CIA.

[tutstar]

bttt for all our brave men military men, past and future

[tutstar]

I hate when these legends come around........you have 1 strike now for posting it LOL......Nonetheless Lee is a hero.

Lee Marvin

Private First Class, United States Marine Corps

Movie Actor

Lee Marvin was born on February 19, 1924, he served with the Marine Corps during World War II in the Pacific and was awarded a Purple Heart for a wound that he received there.

On his return, he became a movie actor and starred in a number of motion pictures until his death in Arizona on August 29, 1987.

He is buried in Section 7-A of Arlington National Cemetery, not far from the Memorial Amphitheater and the Tomb of the Unknowns.

We can't say for sure whether actor Lee Marvin ever related something like the story described above to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show (Marvin was a guest on the show seven times during Carson's tenure as host), but the details of the anecdote are undeniably false.

Lee Marvin did enlist in the U.S. Marines, saw action as Private First Class in the Pacific during World War II, and was wounded (in the buttocks) by fire which severed his sciatic nerve. However, this injury occurred during the battle for Saipan in June 1944, not the battle for Iwo Jima, which took place several months later, in February 1945. (Marvin also did receive a Purple Heart, and he is indeed buried at Arlington National Cemetery.)

Bob Keeshan, later famous as television's "Captain Kangaroo," also enlisted in the U.S. Marines, but too late to see any action during World War II. Keeshan was born on 27 June 1927 and enlisted two weeks before his 18th birthday, months too late to have taken part in the fighting at Iwo Jima. A 1997 interview with Keeshan noted that he "later enlisted in the U.S. Marines but saw no combat" because, as Keeshan said, he signed up "just before we dropped the atom bomb."

[StACase]

The only thing I remember about Captain Kangaroo is when he forgot to turn off his microphone and made the statement, "Well I guess that takes care of the little bastards another day", at the end of one of his shows.

Wrong guy. The one who did that ran the Buster Brown show "I'm Buster Brown. I live in a shoe. That's my dog Tighe. Look for him in there, too." The same one who worked with Froggie, "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie."

Wrong! and Wrong! That quote is from a series of records put out in the early '50s titled "Pardon My Blooper" I don't remember the name of the show, but it was radio, not television, it was from the '30s or '40s and it definitely was not Captain Kangaroo or Andy Devine.

[pabianice]

On the other had , it is TRUE that Hillary Clinton served with the Viet Cong from 1966 - 1970...

[Marylander]

The Buster Brown show was a radio show in the 40s.

[White Eagle]

Robert Duvall - "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!"

John Wayne - "Fill your hand, you S... O... B....!"

[TexasTransplant]

Hey Jaysun, see post 50.

Also I wish you would return "Everyday Guide for the Ignorant"

p.s. I was agreeing with you (jokingly I might add)in my first post, >note to self... English teachers are touchy.

[gitmo]

I've read Mr. Roger's autobiography, and don't recall anything about military service. Perhaps he downplayed it.

[U S Army EOD]

Yes blush blush blush.

[hosepipe]

a link to Lee Marvin, Keeshan and Mr. Rogers...?
excellent.. thanls...EZ...

[U S Army EOD]

YOU blew his cover!!!!!

[U S Army EOD]

You have her confuse with Jane Fonda, Hillary and Bill just supported them from the States and England. Jane did go to Vietnam, the other two didn't although one of them went to Moscow.

[U S Army EOD]

Well I am certainly sure both of them were thinking it.

[U S Army EOD]

And all three of the above deserve to be shot in the buttocks.

[StACase]

Well I am certainly sure both of them were thinking it.

I'm certainly sure you're not a mind reader of dead guys.

[U S Army EOD]

If I can see dead people why can't I talk to them.

And since I have been accused of being brain dead on many occasions, my chances are increased.