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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Gene Wilder
(born Jerome Silberman) was drafted into the Army on September 10, 1956
he was assigned to the medical
corps and
sent to Fort
Sam Houston for
training.
He then chose to serve as paramedic in the Department of Psychiatry and
Neurology
at Valley
Forge Army Hospital, in Phoenixville,
Pennsylvania.
Farley Earle Granger, Jr a few days after he turned 18 he
enlisted in the United
States Navy.
Following US Navy Recruit
Training, he sailed from Treasure
Island in San
Francisco to Honolulu.
During the 17-day crossing, he suffered from chronic seasickness and
lost 23 pounds, and upon arrival in Hawaii
he was admitted to the hospital for several days of rehydration.
As a result, the remainder of his military career was spent onshore with Army
Special Services.
Daniel Hale "Dan" Rowan, during World
War II, Rowan
served as a fighter
pilot in
the United
States Army Air Forces.
He flew Curtiss
P-40N Warhawk
and shot down two Japanese aircraft before he was downed and seriously wounded
over New
Guinea.
His military decorations include the Distinguished
Flying Cross with Oak
Leaf Cluster, the Air
Medal, and the Purple
Heart.
Edwin
Stafford "Ed" Nelson served with the United
States Navy as
a radioman
on the light cruiser USS
Dayton.
William Whitney Talman, Jr. served for 30 months in the United
States Army in
the Pacific
Theatre of World
War II,
beginning his service as a private on February 4, 1942, at Camp
Upton in Yaphank, Long
Island, New York.
He was ultimately commissioned a major during
the war.
Daniel
James "Dan" Dailey Jr. served in the United
States Army during World
War II,
and was commissioned as an Army officer after graduation from Signal Corps Officer
Candidate School
at Fort
Monmouth in New
Jersey.
Desi Arnaz
(born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III)
(served
1942-45)
He
completed his recruit training,
but was classified for limited service after he injured his knee in the United
States Army during World
War II.
He was assigned to direct United
Service Organization (U.S.O.)
programs at a military hospital in the San
Fernando Valley.
Discovering the first thing the wounded soldiers requested was a glass of cold
milk.
Pat Paulsen (born
Patrick Layton Paulsen)
joined the United
States Marines during while
World War II was
still being waged, but it ended before he was shipped overseas.
However, he did experience overseas duty, including guarding captured Japanese
soldiers during their repatriation.
Pat Brady served in World War II and was at the Battle of the
Bulge, in Bastogne
he served as a tank crewman in the 4th Armored Division, a unit of Gen. George
S. Patton's
Third Army
and was wounded in action
and received a Purple
Heart.
Michael Joseph "Mike" Farrell, Jr. entered the Marines (1957-1959) and served at Camp Hansen, Okinawa
Rex Downing
a child and youth actor, started his film career as “Heathcliff”
in several Our
Gang.
Rex enlisted in the United
States Navy
during WW-II (Served 1943-1945).
Samuel
Lloyd Haynes enlisted and served in the Marines from
1952–1964 and during the Korean
War.
He was a public-affairs officer for the Naval reserve with the rank of
Commander.
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