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Excellent tale.  Thanks.

Larry G.


"Monte" <montep@email.com> wrote in message
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> Picked up off the Galileo Sci-tech High School(San Francisco)
> newsletter:
>
> Some have been a bit offended that Lee Marvin is buried in a grove of
> 3 and 4 star generals at Arlington. His marker gives his name, rank
> (PVT) and service (USMC). Nothing else.  Here's a guy who was only a
> famous movie star who served his time, why the heck does he rate
> burial with these guys?
>
>
> Well, following is the amazing answer:
>
> I always liked Lee Marvin, but did not know the extent of his Corps
> experiences. In a time when many Hollywood stars served their country
> in the
>
> armed forces, often in rear-echelon posts where they were carefully
> protected, only to be trotted out to perform for the cameras in war
> bond promotions, Lee Marvin was a genuine hero.  He won the Navy Cross
> at Iwo Jima. There is only one higher award...the Medal Of Honor.  If
> that is a surprising comment on the true character of the man, he
> credits his sergeant with an even greater show of bravery.  Dialog
> From The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
>
> ...
>
> His guest was Lee Marvin. Johnny said, "Lee, I'll bet a lot of people
> are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima
> ... and that during the course of that action you earned the Navy
> Cross and were severely wounded."  And you know how Lee was ... "Yeah,
> yeah ... I got shot square in the ass and they gave me the cross for
> securing a hot spot about halfway up Suribachi ... bad thing about
> getting shot up on a mountain is guys gettin' shot hauling you down.
> But Johnny, at Iwo I served under the bravest man I ever knew ... We
> both got the Cross the same day but what he did for his Cross made
> mine look cheap in comparison. The dumb bastard actually stood up on
> Red beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off
> the beach. That Sergeant and I have been lifelong friends.  "When they
> brought me off Suribachi we passed the Sergeant and he lit a smoke and
> passed it to me lying on my belly on the litter ...and asked 'Where'd
> they get you Lee?'... 'Well Bob ... if you make it home before me,
> tell Mom to sell the outhouse.'.....  Johnny, I'm not lying ...
> Sergeant Keeshan was the bravest man I ever knew ...
>
> Bob Keeshan ... You and the world know him as Captain Kangaroo.
>
>
>
> Monte
> "Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books,
>  and there is some evidence that they can't read them either." ---Gore
Vidal
>