My generation grew up
watching, being entertained by and laughing with so many of these fine people.
Never really knowing what they contributed to the war effort.
Like millions of Americans during WWI & WWII, there was a job that needed
doing and they didn't question it,
just went and did it.
Those that came home returned to their now new normal life and carried on
and
very few ever saying what they did or saw.
They took it as their "responsibility" and their "duty" to the Country to
protect and preserve our freedoms.
American way of life not just for themselves, but for all future generations to
come.
As a member of that “Finest" generation, I'm forever humbly in their debt.
Here are only a few of these silent heroic Heroes that are slowly being forgotten
Do You Remember These Men?
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Monte Markham served in the US Coast Guard during the Korean War as an officer for 10 Years.
Strother Douglas Martin Jr. served in the United States Navy during World War II.
Ralph Waite Too young for World War II, Waite served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1946 to 1948.
Ed McMahon, USMC (Ret.), like many Hollywood celebrities of
his era, was a military veteran. He
volunteered for service during World War II. He went through flight training at
various bases, but the end of
the war came before he was deployed overseas. In the 1950s, McMahon was recalled
by the Marines to
serve in Korea. There, he was an F-9 Panther pilot and flew 85 combat missions
as an artillery spotter
according to an Army website.
William “Broderick” Crawford (served 1942-45) enlisted in the United
States Army Air Corps.
Assigned to the Armed
Forces Network,
he was sent to Britain in 1944 as a sergeant.
Sydney Irwin Pollack (actor) enlisted in the U.S. Army from1957–59
Pierre
(Peter) Julien Ortiz who spoke 5 languages fluently,
was a most decorated Marine officer in World War II.
He received two Navy
Crosses for
extraordinary heroism as a major in World
War II.
He served in both North
Africa and Europe throughout
the war,
as a member of the Office
of Strategic Services (OSS),
operating behind enemy lines several times.
He became an American film
actor after
the war.
Stanley
Robert "Bobby" Vinton,
Jr. spent two years of service in the United
States Army,
where he served as a chaplain's assistant and station
in Japan.
Burgess
Meredith, put his career on hold during and joined the United
States Army Air Corps,
where he eventually reached the rank of Captain.
He transferred to the Office of War Information and was involved in making films
for GIs.
Richard Quine During World War II, he served in the United States Coast Guard.
James
Saburo Shigeta
enlisted
to serve (1951-54) in the United
States Marine Corps during
the Korean
War
where he
served for two-and-a-half years, and rose to the rank of
Staff Sergeant.
Richard Long served in the U.S.
Army for
two years during the Korean
War,
where he was posted to Fort
Ord, California,
before his was stationed in Tokyo, Japan.
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