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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Dale Adam
Dye Jr.,
is
an American actor,
enlisted in 1964 and spent 13 years as an Marine.
He served in Vietnam in 1965 and 1967 through 1970, surviving 31 major combat
operations.
He emerged from Southeast Asia with numerous decorations, including a
Bronze Star for valor and
three Purple Heart medals for wounds suffered in combat.
Dye was wounded during the Tet
Offensive in
1968 Although he was wounded,
Dye exposed himself to "intense enemy fire" to retrieve ammunition for the
machine gun to help hold off NVA soldiers during an all-night firefight.
During other engagements, he exposed himself to enemy fire in order to rescue
several wounded Marines and a Navy corpsman.
As a result of his actions, he was awarded the Bronze
Star Medal with Combat
"V" for
heroism While he was a captain,
he was deployed to Beirut for
duty with the Multinational
Force in Lebanon in
1982 and 1983.
Shortly after his return, the Marine barracks were attacked and
241 Americans died.
William Martin "Clu" Gulager joined in the United States Marine Corps from 1946-48.
Larry Dee
Wilcox is an American actor was drafted in the Army
but he wanted to be in the best outfit during the Vietnam War
and so he enlisted in the
United States Marine Corps.
He honorably served 13 months in Vietnam during
the Tet
Offensive
in Vietnam with five campaign stars and
two meritorious promotions.
He was Honorably Discharged as SSgt. and then went back to school.
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, American Indian served two years in the US Marines.
Yitzhak Edward "Ed" Asner was drafted and serving in the U.S. Army (1951–53) and served in Europe.
Sir Sidney
Poitier at the age of 16, lied about his age and
enlisted in the Army during World War II in 1943.
He served briefly as a hospital attendant.
Robert
Selden Duvall
served
in the United
States Army for
a brief period shortly after the Korean
War
(from August 19, 1953, to August
20, 1954) leaving the Army as private
first class.
Anthony
Wilford Brimley Enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps (1953-56)
during the Korean Conflict and spent three years in the Aleutian Islands.
Frederick
Charles "Fred" Willard having graduated from the Kentucky
Military Institute and
the Virginia
Military Institute.
Enlisted in the Army in 1960.
Burt Young (born Gerald Tommaso DeLouise)
served a tour of duty
in the United
States Marine Corps from
1957 to 1959.
Edward
Davis Wood, Jr. In
1942, Wood enlisted in the United
States Marine Corps,
just months after the attack
on Pearl Harbor.
Assigned to the 2nd Defense
Battalions, he reached the
rank of Corporal before he was discharged.
He was involved in the Battle
of Tarawa, among others, and
during the war AND RECEIVED the Purple
Heart for his
injuries.
He lost his two front teeth to a Japanese soldier's rifle butt and was shot
several times in the leg by a machine
gunner.
Brian Manion Dennehy enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1959, serving active duty on Okinawa until 1963.
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