Hollywood Stars Who Are Military Veterans

Jessie said:
Don't forget Mr. Rogers ( of the neighborhood )
Incredible story there considering his screen persona
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Sorry, but Mr. Rogers never served in the military. He was born in 1928, and he didn't graduate from high school until 1946. Stories about his military service are another internet rumor.
 
Jessie said:
Don't forget Mr. Rogers ( of the neighborhood )
Incredible story there considering his screen persona
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Fred Rodgers was a Presbyterian Minister and never served in the Armed Forces

snopes.com: Rumors About Fred Rogers

Not only did Fred Rogers never serve in the military, there are no gaps in his career when he could conceivably have done so. He went straight into college after high school, he moved directly into TV work after graduating college, and his breaks from television work were devoted to attending the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1963) and the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Child Development. Moreover, Fred Rogers was born in 1928 and was therefore far too old to have been a draftee during the period of America's military involvement in the Vietnam ground war (1965-72) and too established in his career at that point to have run off to enlist.
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Actors that were military veterans

Only actor that comes to mind from "this" generation that is a veteran(I'm sure there are more) but need help with this: Lou Diamond Phillips, from The movie Young Guns-USMC...
 
I just got back from Las Vegas and came to find out from the Clark County museum that Carol Lombard was killed in a DC3 crash taking off from where Nellis is now after a fuel stop. She was doing war bond work and traveling with military personnel. No survivors.
 
Dennis The B said:
Sorry, but Mr. Rogers never served in the military. He was born in 1928, and he didn't graduate from high school until 1946. Stories about his military service are another internet rumor.
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Damn! I hate it when this happens, ( fooled em' again didn't we Josie? )
Wait a minute... Does this mean Eddie Murphy is still alive??!!
 
Dirty Dan, I could find nothing about lou diamound phillips ever being in the military! He was born a navy brat though. Also he plays indians but is of Philippine blood. I dont mean to say this trying to down grade phillips as I like him as a actor and I havent been in the military either. If I am wrong someone please show a source. I do find it odd he was chosen to do interviews on the military channel. (If he indeed wasnt military). I like him.
 
How about these Coast Guardsmen: Ted Turner, Tab Hunter, Jack Dempsey, Arthur Godfrey, Walter Kronkite, Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges, Humphrey Bogart, Alex Haley, Otto Graham, Arthur Fiedler, Arnold Palmer and the Coast Guard's only Medal of Honor recipient...Douglas Munro.
 
feralmerril said:
Dirty Dan, I could find nothing about lou diamound phillips ever being in the military! He was born a navy brat though. Also he plays indians but is of Philippine blood. I dont mean to say this trying to down grade phillips as I like him as a actor and I havent been in the military either. If I am wrong someone please show a source. I do find it odd he was chosen to do interviews on the military channel. (If he indeed wasnt military). I like him.
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Phillips hosted a movie show, something like "Dinner and a Movie", but I know that wasn't the name. All the films he showed were military films and he interviewed military guys at breaks in the film.

He mentioned more than once during his interviews, that he, himself, never served.
 
Comrad said:
I just got back from Las Vegas and came to find out from the Clark County museum that Carol Lombard was killed in a DC3 crash taking off from where Nellis is now after a fuel stop. She was doing war bond work and traveling with military personnel. No survivors.
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Just west of Las Vegas on the north side of 10, just before the Ca. border is a small group of houses on the side of the mountan that her plane crased on...There is a old time bar there, legend has it Clark "Gable stayed drunk a whole week in that bar.....You know how legands are but the locals swear to it.....He was so broken up about her death...She was a beauty or so her pictures indecate...
 
George, they also got married at oatman ariz on old rt 66 not that far from
laughlin and bull head city. There is a old hotel there that claimed they got married in it. I googled and they claim the pair got married in kingman, however kingman is real close to oatman. Now days oatman is out of the way but is sort of a tourist gost town. Its a fun place to go if your in laughlin for a couple hour jaunt away from the tables.
 
Some 'Boomers' that served, Jimi Hendrix (Airborne), Elvis (Infantry), Clint Eastwood (Marines), Steve McQueen (Marines), R. Lee (Gunny) Ermey (the Corp), Me (Navy), Ted Nugent (DRAFT DODGER BIGTIME!).
 
Mac!Gettothechoppa'! said:
Some 'Boomers' that served, Jimi Hendrix (Airborne), Elvis (Infantry), Clint Eastwood (Marines), Steve McQueen (Marines), R. Lee (Gunny) Ermey (the Corp), Me (Navy), Ted Nugent (DRAFT DODGER BIGTIME!).
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Bruce Springsteen was another draft-dodger--which is why I dont support his gigs.
 
SgtLumpy said:
I thought Clint was a SCUBA instructor for the Army at Ft Ord.


Sgt Lumpy
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Clint was Army--just like Charles Bronson was. Also, myth busted about Bronson--he was NOT a gunner in a Bomber--he never saw combat--unless it was in a Bar in Arizona. He was an Army truck diver.
 
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