Amazing you don't see some of today's Hollywood's leftie liberals serving our country...

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Originally posted by seafire/B17G:
Amazing you don't see some of today's Hollywood's leftie liberals serving our country...

Very sad indeed.

Today we have the likes of Sean Penn and Glover who serve as well.....serve the enemy.

many professional athletes also served. Ted williams, who flew fighters in WWII and Korea, comes to mind.

My father actually served with Ernest Borgnine and saw him at ship reunions .

He got the biggest laughs out of McHale's Navy ,as he put it to us kids ,If Only you knew how different

it really was !. That's all he ever said about the War ,if you only knew and you had to be there !.

Unfortunately I later found out what he meant !!!. ; Too all who have and are serving ; I salute

Lt.(jg) "Eddie Albert" Heimberger saved a lot of Marines at Tarawa as a salvage boat officer from the Sheridan. Thank you Sir.

I've know about many of those "stars" service for years, what was surprising was the number I didn't know about, or their branch of service. Peter Ustinov in the Commando's? That was a surprise.

As for Danny Glover; I worked for the TSA in Portland, Oregon for a few years. Danny Glover used to fly through on occasion. We hated to see him come in as he always treated his screener like crap and was really rude.

I like his acting generally, however it's hard to enjoy it anymore after seeing what a D*** he is in person.

eb

Ted Knight was another, never knew a thing about his service in WW-II till after he died.

Spike Milligan, 'British' - Royal Artillery I believe

Harry Secombe, 'British' - R.A. as above I think.

Michael Bentine, 'British' - S.O.E.

The above were 3 of the 4 "Goons" comedy team of radio and early TV.

Richard Todd, 'British' - Parachute Regiment, D Day Landings.

I cannot remember his name right now, but the English actor who often played Germans, South Africans, was in sandal sagas and was in the Guns of Navorone, was also in some sort of S.O.E. type out fit, fighting in the then Yugoslavia.

Michael Mickelwaite, English - National Service in Korea & "not a lot of people know that"

It really is surprising what some individuals did before they became famous actors.

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Originally posted by robthom:
It really is surprising what some individuals did before they became famous actors.

I find it surprising what some of these individuals did after they became famous actors. Jimmy Stewart is probably the most famous for continuing his career as a reserve officer; he retired as a Brigadier General. That's mentioned on the above link. But others continued service goes unmentioned. Following WWII Ed McMahon stayed in the reserves as a Marine Corps Pilot.

He served in combat in Korea even after becoming a well known local celebrity in Philadelphia, flying artillery spotting missions. He retired as a Colonel in the sixties. Following that, he was a Brigadier General in the CA Air National Guard.

I don't know what duties, if any he had in the Air Guard. But he didn't have to do it, certainly at that stage in his career didn't need the money, and merely being associated with the military was none to popular.

I wonder how many others stayed in the reserves.