----- Original Message ----- From: MillerChrl@aol.com To: elmo@netsync.net Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 10:34 PM Subject: (no subject) Don't know who wrote this, but I really like it! > > + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + > Subject: 1943--2003. > > Interesting comparison between then and now. Compare the Brave > Entertainers of 1943 with today's Hollywood motley bunch. > > Letter to the Editor, > > The Entertainers of 2003 have been in all of the news media lately. it > seems newspaper, television and radio has been more than ready to put > them and their message before the public. > > I would like to remind the people 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. > > James Doohan ("Scotty" on Star Trek) landed in Normandy with the US > Army on D-Day. > > Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was a R.A.F. pilot who was > shot down, held prisoner and tortured by the Germans. > > David Niven was a Sandhurst graduate and Lt. Colonel of the British > Commandos in Normandy. > > James Stewart flew 20 missions as a B-24 pilot in Europe. > > Clark Gable, mega-movie star when the war broke out, was a waist gunner > flying missions on a B-17 in Europe. > > Charlton Heston was an Army Air Corps Sergeant in Kodiak. > > Earnest Borgnine was a U.S. Navy Gunners Mate 1935-1945. > > Charles Durning was a U.S. Army Ranger at Normandy. > > Charles Bronson was a tail gunner in the Army Air Corps. > > George C. Scott was a U.S. Marine. > > 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. > > Brian Keith served as a Marine rear gunner in several actions against > the Japanese on Rabal in the Pacific. > > Lee Marvin was a marine on Saipan when he was wounded. > > John Russell was a Marine on Guadalcanal. > > Robert Ryan was a U.S. Marine who served with the O.S.S. in Yugoslavia. > > 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. > > Audie Murphy , the little guy from Texas, most decorated serviceman of > WWII. > > 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. > > There is quite a huge gap between the heroics and patriotism in 1943 and > the > Cowardly, despicable posturing of the Hollywood crowd of today... all of > which smack of sedition and treason.