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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William
“Adam” West Anderson was drafted into the army mid 50’s, he spent the next two
years starting military television stations,
first at San Luis Obispo, California, then at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.
Edward
Macdonald Carey
in 1944
joined the United
States Marine Corps
and he served in the South Pacific. Stayed on active duty until 1947.
Victor Sen
Yung joined
the
U.S. Army Air Force working his way to the rank of
Captain
in the department of Intelligence during WWII.
Bradford Dillman
entered
the United States Marine Corps as an officer candidate, training at Parris
Island.
He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the
Marine Corps in September 1951 he was preparing to deploy to Korea.
1951 to 1953 teaching communication in the Instructors' Orientation Course.
He was discharged in 1953 at the rank of first lieutenant.
Pat
Flaherty (born Edmund Joseph
Flaherty) served in the military during the border campaign of 1916
as a flying officer for the signal corps during WWI.
He received a commission in the Marine Corps during WWII
and also severed in Korea and was discharged at the
rank of Major.
Clerow "Flip" Wilson
Jr. at 16-year-old Wilson lied about his age and
joined the United
States Air Force.
His outgoing personality and funny stories made him so popular that
he was even asked to tour military bases to cheer up other servicemen and was
discharge in 1954.
Preston
Foster While
serving with the United
States Coast Guard during World
War II,
he rose to the rank of captain. He eventually held
the honorary rank of Commodore.
Robert Selden Duvall served in the United
States Army
leaving the Army as private
first class,
and
was awarded the National Defense Service Medal.
William Herman Katt (born Herman August Wilhelm Katt) enlisted in the United States Army during World War II.
Samuel
Lloyd Haynes
served
in the Marines from
1952–1964 and during the Korean
War.
He was also an officer for the Naval Reserve with
the rank of Commander.
Steven Hill (born Solomon Krakovsky) served four years during WW-II (1940-44) in the United States Navy.
Maurice Herbert Evans he enlisted in the United
States Army (1942-45)
and he later was in charge of
an Army Entertainment Section in the Central
Pacific and
played his famous "G.I. version" of Hamlet
that cut the text of the play to make the eponymous title character more
appealing to the troops,
an interpretation so popular that he later took it to Broadway in
1945.
Evans rose to the rank of Major by the end of the war.
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