There was a couple of urban legends about Bob Keeshan winning the Navy Cross and some Iwo Jima stuff, but he never saw any combat at all in WW2. Most of it was based on something Lee Marvin was supposed to have said on a talk show, but actually didn't. I use to see him on Nantucket Island occasionally in the early '80s and he seemed like a genuinely nice guy.
My favorite was Johnny Quest! That was some good stuff for the era, and who among us would not have traded places with that kid and his sidekick Haji, seeing the world and solving big time crime with all of those cool inventions of his dad and team!
Do ya'll remember the saying at the beginning of all of the superman shows?
"Fighting for truth, justice and THE AMERICAN WAY!" Bck then, American exceptionalism was just accepted as fact and as right by everyone. Even, to a degree, by our enemy's and counter countries.
What I would give to have that attitude and the actions it brought on returned to this great land!
Try to fins such an attitude or expression in todays popular Television outside of the Fox News Network.
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About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500
There was a couple of urban legends about Bob Keeshan winning the Navy Cross and some Iwo Jima stuff, but he never saw any combat at all in WW2. Most of it was based on something Lee Marvin was supposed to have said on a talk show, but actually didn't. I use to see him on Nantucket Island occasionally in the early '80s and he seemed like a genuinely nice guy.
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Keeshan was born in Lynbrook, New York. After an early graduation from Forest Hills High School in Queens, NY in 1945, during World War II, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, but was still in the United States when Japan surrendered. He attended Fordham University on the GI Bill.
Johhny Quest was a TV ripoff of the famous Tom Swift book adventures. I read every single Swiftie and loved them. As a fledgling gunnut, I distinctly recall "Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle."
"Smokin' cigarettes, and watching Captain, Kangaroo, don't tell me, I've nothing to do," The Statler Brothers.
Counting flowers on the wall, don't bother me at all...
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence". John Adams
"A dishonest man can always be trusted to be dishonest". Captain Jack Sparrow
He would have been disappointed in Hadji crashing into the World Trade Center on 9/11 though.
Haji was not a Middle Easterner, was from India. Would not likely even have been a Muslim with his attire and background.
LOVE God, LOVE your family, LOVE your country, LIKE guns and sports.
About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500
He would have been disappointed in Hadji crashing into the World Trade Center on 9/11 though.
But I think haji was suppose to be Hindi.
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
Did anyone besides me get a spring loaded Johnny Eagle rifle that looked a lot like an 03/A3 springfield that fired plastic bullets? Each 30/06 'casing' had a spring in it that pushed the plastic projectile out of the barrel when the trigger was pulled. Easily my all time favorite toy, along with my olive drab pup tent.
LOVE God, LOVE your family, LOVE your country, LIKE guns and sports.
About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500
Did anyone besides me get a spring loaded Johnny Eagle rifle that looked a lot like an 03/A3 springfield that fired plastic bullets? Each 30/06 'casing' had a spring in it that pushed the plastic projectile out of the barrel when the trigger was pulled. Easily my all time favorite toy, along with my olive drab pup tent.
Oh yeah. If memory serves correctly, when you shot the rifle, it had a built in Bang...whine sound like a ricochet of a bullet.
The thing I remember about Johny Quest was the high body count for each show.
For a 10 or 12 year old kid, Johny didn't mess around - he and Race flat out killed the bad guys. Not like some of the later GI Joe or other cartoons where there'd be explosions and gunfire and all manner of mayhem but nobody actually died.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
Did anyone besides me get a spring loaded Johnny Eagle rifle that looked a lot like an 03/A3 springfield that fired plastic bullets? Each 30/06 'casing' had a spring in it that pushed the plastic projectile out of the barrel when the trigger was pulled. Easily my all time favorite toy, along with my olive drab pup tent.
Oh yeah. If memory serves correctly, when you shot the rifle, it had a built in Bang...whine sound like a ricochet of a bullet.
I think you are right, but this was 45 years ago and I really don't remember for sure on that point. Great toy, though.
LOVE God, LOVE your family, LOVE your country, LIKE guns and sports.
About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500
