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    i just read this email from my aunt and i felt compelled to share with all of you the real hollywood heros not what they have today.

     

    Be sure and scroll to the very bottom.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    In contrast to the ideals, opinions and feelings of today's "Hollywonk" the

    real actors of yester-year loved the United States. They had both class and

    integrity. With the advent of World War many of our actors went to fight rather

    than stand and rant against this country we all love. They gave up their

    wealth, position and fame to become service men & women, many as simple "enlisted

    men". This page lists but a few, but from this group of only 18 men came over 70

    medals in honor of their valor, spanning from Bronze Stars, Silver Stars,

    Distinguish Service Cross', Purple Hearts and one Congressional Medal of Honor.

    So remember; while the "Entertainers of 2003" have been in all of the news

    media lately 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.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Real Hollywood Heros

     

    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 U. S. Army

    on D-Day.

     

    Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was an 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 Entered the Army Air Force as a private and worked his way to

    the rank of Colonel. During World War II, Stewart served as a bomber pilot, his

    service record crediting him with leading more than 20 missions over Germany,

    and taking part in hundreds of air strikes during his tour of duty. Stewart

    earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, France's Croix de Guerre,

    and 7 Battle Stars during World War II. In peace time, Stewart continued to

    be an active member of the Air Force as a reservist, reaching the rank of

    Brigadier General before retiring in the late 1950s.

     

     

    Clark Gable (Mega-Movie Star when war broke out) Although he was beyond the

    draft age at the time the U.S. entered WW II, Clark Gable enlisted as a private

    in the AAF on Aug. 12, 1942 at Los Angeles. He attended the Officers'

    Candidate School at Miami Beach, Fla. and graduated as a second lieutenant on Oct.

    28, 1942. He then attended aerial gunnery school and in Feb. 1943 he was

    assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at Polebrook where flew operational missions over

    Europe in B-17s. Capt. Gable returned to the U.S. in Oct. 1943 and was relieved

    from active duty as a major on Jun. 12, 1944 at his own request, since he was

    over-age for combat.

     

    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 earning a Silver Star and

    awarded the Purple Heart.

     

     

    Charles Bronson was a tail gunner in the Army Air Corps, more specifically on

    B-29s in the 20th Air Force out of Guam, Tinian, and Saipan

     

    George C. Scott was a decorated 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 U.S. Marine rear gunner in several actions against

    the Japanese on Rabal in the Pacific.

     

    Lee Marvin was a U.S. Marine on Saipan during the Marianas campaign when he

    was wounded earning the Purple Heart.

     

    John Russell: In 1942, he enlisted in the Marine Corps where he received a

    battlefield commission and was wounded and highly decorated for valor at

    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 U.S. Marines, was a pilot flying supplies into, and wounded Marines out

    of, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

     

    Audie Murphy, little 5'5" tall 110 pound guy from Texas who played cowboy

    parts? Most Decorated serviceman of WWII and earned: Medal of Honor,

    Distinguished Service Cross, 2 Silver Star Medals, Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Star Medals

    with "V", 2 Purple Hearts, U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, Good

    Conduct Medal, 2 Distinguished Unit Emblems, American Campaign Medal,

    European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with One Silver Star, Four Bronze

    Service Stars (representing nine campaigns) and one Bronze Arrowhead (representing

    assault landing at Sicily and Southern France) World War II Victory Medal Army

    of Occupation Medal with Germany Clasp, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Combat

    Infantry Badge, Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar, Expert Badge with Bayonet Bar,

    French Fourragere in Colors of the Croix de Guerre, French Legion of Honor, Grade

    of Chevalier, French Croix de Guerre With Silver Star, French Croix de Guerre

    with Palm, Medal of Liberated France, Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    So how do you feel the real heroes of the silver screen acted when compared

    to the hollywonks today who spray out anti-American drivel as they bite the

    hand that feeds them? Can you imagine these stars of yester-year saying they hate

    our flag, making anti-war speeches, marching in anti-American parades and

    saying they hate our president? I thought not, neither did I!

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    I watch it once or twice each December (in fact,I watched it a few days ago).But that's it.

    Those National Lampoons' films seemed so much funnier when I was younger. :(

    that sucks, eh? thats like spaceballs, naked gun, spy hard. they were soooooooo funny when i remember them. but i see them again now that im older, they just arent very funny anymore. (i still like naked gun the best though. :( )

    DDDDDUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE SPACEBALLS IS STILL FUNNY, AND WHAT ABOUT BLAZING SADDLES HOOOYA. :clap:

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    i just bought audioslaves disc, and i recently bought Ra, Trapt, Daredevil soundtrack, Linkin park meteora, staind, Fuel natural selection, evenesence, powerman 5000, chevelle, styx, to name a few. ive always loved music, it helps set the tone for how im feeling, and the way ive been feeling the last six months, ive bought soooo many discs it aint funny. but ive always loved music, i have almost 400 discs, plus a whole bunch of burned music as well. i have such a diversified taste in music that most people think im nuts, i have everything from bach, to yanni, to guns n roses to air supply to corey hart to bonjovi, love that FLOYD, to motley crue to a-ha and so on.

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    BTW are you using windows 98? i see you said new windows 98, in class we had a problem with some of the systems and windows 98. if you are using it for the first time, and now you dont show a cd drive, check to see if you have an intel chipset on your mother board. if it is, thats probably the problem, what it is is that the ide controllers somehow lose the cd drive after the installation of windows 98. online there are some patches and fixes for it but they dont always work

    your gonna just have to play with it.