Where are the Men of Hollywood NOW?

Many here that you have no doubt forgot about, this should bring back some memories.  

Have any of our current Hollywood elite made similar contributions to the USA as those below?

                                                         

Hollywood's greatest--

George Gobel comedian taught fighter pilots, I believe it was in Oklahoma.  Johnny Carson made a big deal about it once on the Tonight Show, to which George said, "The Japs never got past us!" Sterling Hayden, US Marines and OSS.  Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and parachuted into Croatia. James Stewart, US Army Air Corps.  Bomber pilot who rose to the rank of General. Ernest Borgnine, US Navy.  Gunners Mate 1c, destroyer USS Lamberton. Ed McMahon, US Marines.  Fighter Pilot.  (Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well.) Telly Savalas, US Army. Walter Matthau, US Army Air Corps., B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer. Steve Forrest, US Army.  Wounded, Battle of the Bulge. Jonathan Winters, USMC.  Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard.  Anti-aircraft gunner, Battle of Okinawa. Paul Newman, US Navy Rear seat gunner/radioman, torpedo bombers of USS Bunker Hill. Kirk Douglas, US Navy.  Sub-chaser in the Pacific.  Wounded in action and medically discharged. Robert Mitchum, US Army. Dale Robertson, US Army.  Tank Commander in North Africa under Patton.  Wounded twice.  Battlefield Commission. Henry Fonda, US Navy.  Destroyer USS Satterlee. John Carroll, US Army Air Corps.  Pilot in North Africa.  Broke his back in a crash. Lee Marvin US Marines.  Sniper.  Wounded in action on Saipan.  Buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Sec. 7A next to Greg Boyington and Joe Louis. Art Carney, US Army.  Wounded on Normandy beach, D-Day.  Limped for the rest of his life. Wayne Morris, US Navy fighter pilot, USS Essex.  Downed seven Japanese fighters. Rod Steiger, US Navy.  Was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid. Tony Curtis, US Navy.  Sub tender USS Proteus.  In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan. Larry Storch.  US Navy.  Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis. Forrest Tucker, US Army.  Enlisted as a private, rose to Lieutenant. Robert Montgomery, US Navy. George Kennedy, US Army.  Enlisted after Pearl Harbor, stayed in sixteen years. Mickey Rooney, US Army under Patton.  Bronze Star. Denver Pyle, US Navy.  Wounded in the Battle of Guadalcanal.  Medically discharged. Burgess Meredith, US Army Air Corps. DeForest Kelley, US Army Air Corps. Robert Stack, US Navy.  Gunnery Officer. Neville Brand, US Army, Europe.  Was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart. Tyrone Power, US Marines.  Transport pilot in the Pacific Theater. Charlton Heston, US Army Air Corps.  Radio operator and aerial gunner on a B-25, Aleutians. Danny Aiello, US Army.  Lied about his age to enlist at 16.  Served three years. James Arness, US Army.  As an infantryman, he was severely wounded at Anzio, Italy. Efram Zimbalist, Jr., US Army.  Purple Heart for a severe wound received at Huertgen Forest. Mickey Spillane, US Army Air Corps, Fighter Pilot and later Instructor Pilot. Rod Serling.  US Army.  11th Airborne Division in the Pacific.  He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila. Gene Autry, US Army Air Corps.  Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over "The Hump" in the China-Burma-India Theater. Wiliam Holden, US Army Air Corps. Alan Hale Jr, US Coast Guard. Russell Johnson, US Army Air Corps.  B-24 crewman who was awarded Purple Heart when his aircraft was shot down by the Japanese in the Philippines. William Conrad, US Army Air Corps.  Fighter Pilot. Jack Klugman, US Army. Frank Sutton, US Army.  Took part in 14 assault landings, including Leyte, Luzon, Bataan and Corregidor. Jackie Coogan, US Army Air Corps.  Volunteered for gliders and flew troops and materials into Burma behind enemy lines. Tom Bosley, US Navy. Claude Akins, US Army.  Signal Corps., Burma and the Philippines. Chuck Connors, US Army.  Tank-warfare instructor. Harry Carey Jr., US Navy. Mel Brooks, US Army.  Combat Engineer.   Saw action in the Battle of the Bulge. Robert Altman, US Army Air Corps.  B-24 Co-Pilot. 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. 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-decorated 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 fine people, never really knowing what they contributed to the war effort.  Like millions of Americans during the WWII, there was a job that needed doing they didn’t question, they went and did it, those that came home returned to their now new normal life and carried on, very few ever saying what they did or saw. They took it as their “responsibility”, their “duty” to Country, to protect and preserve our freedoms and way of life, not just for themselves but for all future generations to come.  As a member of a later generation, I’m forever humbly in their debt.

Schumer

Got to love this New York idiot Chuckie Schumer. How many times did the democrats tell us if the government was shut down old people will die, Armed Forces would not be paid, Social Security would not be mailed and god knows what else if the terrible Republicans did something that caused the government to cut down. It is so refreshing to hear this moran threaten the dems will shut down the government if the terrible republicans reduce foreign aid to countries that hate us, reduce monies given to the worthless EPA and shut/reduce other programs that do nothing but suck our dollars. 

Please Chuckie, shut the government down and maybe we can get rid of some more duplicate programs and waste in this government. Isn't it about time someone said enough to government wasting our dollars? Why do we continue to funds programs that don't work after year and year. Has Washington ever canceled a program or stopped foreign aid going to countries that hate us? It is way past time to do so.

We should tell our so called friends that either you support us or aid will be reduced or stopped. Cut funds to the UN and let the liberals scream about how bad we conservatives are. I'd take that as an honor.

Shut the government Schumer and I'd love it.

  

OUR COUNTRY IS BROKEN AND CAN NOT BE FIXED

Can't you hear students telling their teachers they want to be welfare recipients when they grow up?

 

THE WORK ETHIC WE INHERITED GROWING UP HAS FALLEN PREY TO THE 'WELFARE' SYSTEM.

 

The Cato Institute released an updated 2014 study (original study in 1955) showing that welfare benefits pay more than a minimum wage job in 33 states and the District of Columbia.

 

Even worse, welfare pays more than $15 per hour in 13 states.  According to the d wage.  It’s now more profitable to sit at home and watch TV than it is to earn an honest day’s pay.  Hawaii is the biggest offender, where welfare recipients earn $29.13 per hour, or a $60,590 yearly salary, all for doing nothing.  Here is the list of the states where the pre-tax equivalent “salary” that welfare recipients receive is higher than having a job:

 

1. Hawaii : $60,590
2. District of Columbia :$50,820
3. Massachusetts : $50,540
4. Connecticut : $44,370
5. New York : $43,700
6. New Jersey : $43,450
7. Rhode Island : $43,330
8. Vermont : $42,350
9. New Hampshire : $39,750
10. Maryland : $38,160
11. California : $37,160
12. Oregon : $34,300
13. Wyoming : $32,620
14. Nevada : $29,820
15. Minnesota : $29,350
16. Delaware : $29,220
17. Washington : $28,840
18. North Dakota : $28,830
19. Pennsylvania : $28,670
20. New Mexico : $27,900
21. Montana : $26,930
22. South Dakota : $26,610
23. Kansas: $26,490
24. Michigan : $26,430
25 Alaska : $26,400
26. Ohio : $26,200
27. North Carolina : $25,760
28. West Virginia : $24,900
29. Alabama : $23,310
30. Indiana : $22,900
31. Missouri : $22,800
32. Oklahoma : $22,480
33. Louisiana : $22,250
34. South Carolina : $21,91

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

As a point of reference the average Middle Class annual income today is $50,000, down from $54,000 at the beginning of the Great Recession. Hawaii, DC, and Massachusetts pay more in welfare than the average working folks earn there.  Is it any wonder that they stay home rather than look for a job.
Time for a drastic change.. Because America is now just about virtually bankrupt.

 

Note that California is $1850 an hour.

 

Are we Nuts or what? How do we un-do this type of stupidity … This is crazy!

 

Salary of retired United States Presidents $180,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of House/Senate..$174,000 FOR LIFE
This is beyond stupid !!!!!!!

 

Salary of Speaker of the House ...$223,500 FOR LIFE! --- This is really stupid.

Salary of Majority/Minority Leader $193,400 FOR LIFE! --- Ditto last line.

 

Average Salary of a teacher .. $40,065
Average Salary of Soldier DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN... $38,000.
Think about this!!!!!

 

Nancy Pelosi will retire as a Congress Person at $174,000 Dollars a year for LIFE.  She has retired as SPEAKER at $223,500 a year. PLUS she will receive an additional $193,400 a year as Minority Leader, the fact that she has become rich while in office notwithstanding.  That's $803,700 Dollars a year for LIFE including FREE medical which is not available to us .... the taxpayers.  She is just one of the hundreds of Senators and Congress that float in and out every year!

 

I think we found where the cuts should be made!       TERM LIMITS BEGINNING AT STATE AND FEDERAL!!!!!!

 

If you agree .....Please,...pass this important message on,  I just did.

 

Wake UP America !

 

Unless you really don't care that your country is bankrupt at the likes of these people!  Again,..So How Many TRILLIONS are we in Debt right now  ?

WE THE PEOPLE DON'T COUNT ANYMORE AND POLITICIANS JUST PLAY US AGAINST EACH OTHER. FIFTY YEARS AGO MY FATHER TOLD ME ANOTHER REVOLUTION WOULD BE NEEDED TO REGAIN CONTROL OF OUR LIVES FROM GOVERNMENT. FROM THE ABOVE, I CAN SEE IT COMING SOONER THEN EXPECTED. MY DAD WHO SERVED IN WW2 AND KOREA WAS RIGHT AND THAT IS SCARY. 

 

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Trump and all Elected Republicans

SHUT THE F UP AND FORGET THE DEMOCRATS

You were elected  by the people to change things in this country and as Donnie once said, "Make America Great Again". By being distracted by the democrats you are playing into their hands. Forgert the twitter crap Donnie, stay away from cameras and do you damn job. Get healthcare done, you have had six years to write a new healthcare bill so do you job. Get the tax bill written and done while all the dems scream but forget them. You have the house, senate and white house so move on and let the lying democrats rant. 

People will see that you mean business and they will back you but this crap with you responding to everything will cost us in the long run. Someone needs to tell Trump to grow up and this isn't private business where you can push people around. Work with your party and moderate democrats who really want a free country. Those like Nancy and Chuckie push them aside and search out dems. who remember what this country was built on, FREEDOM not government control. 

This is the original email I received that prompted me to verify the contents. So, now my question is: WILL THE MEDIA & THE LEFTIST DESTROY US AGAIN?

Subject: UNDERSTANDING THE MEDIA

 

This really sad !!!!

 

 

 

Here is why the veterans voted for TRUMP.

The MEDIA destroys common sense in the world, and destroys countries with its liberal socialism.

 

General VoNguyen Giap.

 

General Giap was a brilliant, highly respected leader of the North Vietnam military. The following quote is from his memoirs currently found in the Vietnam war memorial in Hanoi:

 

'What we still don't understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were readyto surrender! It was the same at the battle of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thoughtyou knew it.

 

But we were elated to notice your media was helping us. They were causing more disruption inAmerica  than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!'

 

General Giap has published his memoirs and confirmed what most Americans knew. The Vietnam war was not lost in Vietnam — it was lost at home

 

The same slippery slope, sponsored by the U.S. media, is currently underway. It exposes theenormous power of a Biased Media to cut out the heart and will of the American public.

 

A truism worthy of note: . . . Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life.

 

Fear the media, for they will distort your grasp of reality and destroy your honor.

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Is this the strategy the Democrats have in mind to defeat PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP?

Sounds EERILY possible.  Constant protests and riots.  Keep the pot boiling and stir up trouble.  Is our biggest battle on the home front?

This is from Truth or Fiction about the war in Vietnam.  (John McCain, John Kerry, & Jane Fonda)

https://www.truthorfiction.com/general-vo-nguyen-giap-vietnam-war-lost-home-incorrect-attribution/

"We were not strong enough to drive out a half million American troops, but that wasn’t our aim. Our intention was to break the will of the American government to continue the war. Westmoreland was wrong to expect that his superior firepower would grind us down. If we had focused on the balance of forces, we would have been defeated in two hours. We were waging a people’s war … America’s sophisticated arms, electronic devices and all the rest were to no avail in the end. In war there are the two factors — human beings and weapons. Ultimately though, human beings are the decisive factor.

Giap definitely acknowledged that grinding down the U.S. government’s will to continue the war was a major part of his strategy — but he didn’t specifically say that John Kerry, Jane Fonda, or the anti-war movement in general helped accomplish that.

It’s also been rumored that Giap wrote in his memoirs that the anti-war movement led to the U.S.’s ultimate defeat — but that does not check out, either. Ed Moise, a professor at Clemson University, explained in a review of Giap’s memoir how those false rumors started:

This book has been the subject of several unfounded rumors on the Internet. The first one began in the late 1990s. Supposedly, General Giap had written in How We Won the War that in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Communist leaders in Vietnam had been ready to abandon the war, but that a broadcast by Walter Cronkite, declaring the Tet Offensive a Communist victory, persuaded them to change their minds and fight on. This rumor was entirely false. Giap had not mentioned Cronkite, and had not said the Communists had ever considered giving up on the war. 

Several variants of this rumor appeared in 2004. In these, Giap is supposed to have credited either the American anti-war movement in general, or John Kerry’s organization (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) in particular, for persuading the Communist leaders to change their minds and not give up on the war. Giap is sometimes said to have made this statement in How We Won the War, sometimes in an unnamed 1985 memoir. All versions of the rumor are false. Neither in How We Won the War, nor in any other book (the 1985 memoir is entirely imaginary), has Giap mentioned Kerry or Vietnam Veterans Against the War, or said that the Communist leaders had ever considered giving up on the war.

And not only does Giap’s quotes about the Vietnam War being lost at home not check out — Giap indicated in a 1996 interview with CNN that the North Vietnamese Army’s victory came in large part due to American leaders’ lack of understanding of Vietnam, their underestimation of the North Vietnamese will to win, and miscalculations about the effectiveness of guerilla warfare:

In general, I must say they were the most intelligent people, with certain talents such as military, political and diplomacy skills. They were intelligent people. That was the first point that I want to say. The second point I want to say is that they knew little about Vietnam and her people. They didn’t understand our will to maintain independence and equality between nations even though these are stated in President Jefferson’s manifestation. And so they made mistakes. They did not know the limits of power. … No matter how powerful you are there are certain limits, and they did not understand it well. …

The people in the White House believed that Americans would definitely win and there is not chance of defeat. There is a saying which goes, “If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you would win every single battle.” However, the Americans fought the Vietnamese, but they did not know much about Vietnam or anything at all about the Vietnamese people. Vietnam is an old nation founded in a long history before the birth of Christ. … The Americans knew nothing about our nation and her people. American generals knew little about our war theories, tactics and patterns of operation. …

During the war everyone in the country would fight and they [would] do so following the Vietnamese war theory. We have a theory that is different from that of the Russians and that of the Americans. The Americans did not understand that. They did not know or understand our nation; they did not know our war strategies. They could not win. How could they win? As our president said, there was nothing more precious than independence and freedom. We had the spirit that we would govern our own nation; we would rather sacrifice than be slaves.

The sentiment that the U.S. lost the war at home because of anti-war protests and media coverage actually came from Bui Tin, a former colonel in the North Vietnamese, during a 1995 interview with the Wall Street Journal. When asked about the anti-war movement’s impact on the war, Tin replied:

It was essential to our strategy.  Support of the war from our rear was completely secure  while the American rear was vulnerable.  Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m.  to follow the growth of the American antiwar movements.  Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence  that we should hold on  in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.

So, General Giap did not say that the U. S. lost the Vietnam war at home because of anti-war protests and media coverage of the war. Those sentiments did come from a former high-ranking official in the North Vietnamese Army, though."

The Staff: That last paragraph is very important. As someone with a Draft lottery number 40, I remember how our media slanted the news and our government/generals failed their troops. I lost friends and for what, some damn war that the government would let them win.