...faded Glory ( Part Two )

[Raya @ REAL CONSERVATIVES]

.

.

"...gone to Grave Yards, every one "

******

Hollywood's greatest--

Pat Hingle, US Navy.  Destroyer USS Marshall

Fred Gwynne, US Navy.  Radioman.

Karl Malden, US Army Air Corps.  8th Air Force, NCO.

Earl Holliman.  US Navy.  Lied about his age to enlist.  Discharged after a year when they Navy found out.

Rock Hudson, US Navy.  Aircraft mechanic, the Philippines.

Harvey Korman, US Navy.

Aldo Ray.  US Navy.  UDT frogman, Okinawa.

Don Knotts, US Army, Pacific Theater.

Don Rickles, US Navy aboard USS Cyrene.

Harry Dean Stanton, US Navy.  Served aboard an LST in the Battle of Okinawa.

Soupy Sales, US Navy.  Served on USS Randall in the South Pacific.

Lee Van Cleef, US Navy.  Served aboard a sub chaser then a mine sweeper.

Clifton James, US Army, South Pacific.  Was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart.

Ted Knight, US Army, Combat Engineers.

Jack Warden, US Navy, 1938-1942, then US Army, 1942-1945.  101st Airborne Division.

Don Adams.  US Marines.  Wounded on Guadalcanal, then served as a Drill Instructor.

James Gregory, US Navy and US Marines.

Brian Keith, US Marines.  Radioman/Gunner in Dauntless dive-bombers.

Fess Parker, US Navy and US Marines.  Booted from pilot training for being too tall, joined Marines as a radio operator.

Charles Durning.  US Army.  Landed at Normandy on D-Day.  Shot multiple times.  Awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts.  Survived Malmedy Massacre.

Raymond Burr, US Navy.  Shot in the stomach on Okinawa and medically discharged.

Hugh O’Brian, US Marines.

Robert Ryan, US Marines.

Eddie Albert, US Coast Guard.  Bronze Star with Combat V for saving several Marines under heavy fire as pilot of a landing craft during the invasion of Tarawa.

Cark Gable, US Army Air Corps.  B-17 gunner over Europe.

Charles Bronson, US Army Air Corps.  B-29 gunner, wounded in action.

Peter Graves, US Army Air Corps.

Buddy Hackett, US Army anti-aircraft gunner.

Victor Mature, US Coast Guard.

Jack Palance, US Army Air Corps.  Severely injured bailing out of a burning B-24 bomber.

Robert Preston, US Army Air Corps.  Intelligence Officer

Cesar Romero, US Coast Guard.  Coast Guard.  Participated in the invasions of Tinian and Saipan on the assault transport USS Cavalier.

Norman Fell, US Army Air Corps., Tail Gunner, Pacific Theater.

Jason Robards, US Navy.  was aboard heavy cruiser USS Northampton when it was sunk off Guadalcanal.  Also served on the USS Nashville during the invasion of the Philippines, surviving a kamikaze hit that caused 223 casualties.

Steve Reeves, US Army, Philippines.

Dennis Weaver, US Navy.  Pilot.

Robert Taylor, US Navy.  Instructor Pilot.

Randolph Scott.  Tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected due to injuries sustained in US Army, World War 1.

Ronald Reagan.  US Army.  Was a 2nd Lt. in the Cavalry Reserves before the war.  His poor eyesight kept him from being sent overseas with his unit when war came so he transferred to the Army Air Corps Public Relations Unit where he served for the duration.

John Wayne  Declared "4F medically unfit" due to pre-existing injuries, he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army, Navy and Film Corps.) so he gets honorable mention.

And of course we have Audie Murphy, America’s most-decor ated soldier, who became a Hollywood star as a result of his US Army service that included his being awarded the Medal of Honor.
 
 
" Would someone please remind me again how many of today’s Hollywood elite put their careers on hold to enlist in Iraq or Afghanistan?  The only one who even comes close was Pat Tillman, who turned down a contract offer of $3.6 million over three years from the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the US Army after September 11, 2001, and serve as a Ranger in Afghanistan, where he died in 2004.  But rather than being lauded for his choice and his decision to put his country before his career, he was mocked and derided by many of his peers.
 
Ladies and Gentlemen, I submit to you that this is not the America today that it was seventy years ago.  And I, for one, am saddened.  My generation grew up watching, being entertained by and laughing with so many of these devoted and in many cases, heroic individuals. "

.

.

- Dickie Allan

.

.

.

.

******

Part One

CLICK HERE:

http://tpartyus2010.ning.com/profiles/blogs/faded-glory-part-one

.

.

.