Re: HEROS
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Originally Posted by jimt49
Great stories about Lee Marvin and Bob Keeshan. True American heroes.
The story about Mr. Rogers however is an urban myth. He never served in the military.
JimT
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In 1945, as he completed high school, he enlisted in the Marines, but the war ended before he could be sent into combat. It was just as well. "I was the least aggressive Marine in the history of the Marine Corps," Mr. Keeshan later told Lawrence Laurent of The Washington Post.
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