Did you know that Reagan served in D-Day?

[fujiyama]

If you watch too much Fox or CNN, you'll come away with that impression.

[XanaDUer]

1. They must be confusing him being in uniform

during the War on the backlot at Warner Bros.


EDIT: Whatever backlot he was on , he sure twern't in D-Day.

[physioex]

2. LOL..

And Bunnypants was a brave fighter pilot in the Vietnam War....

[LittleApple81]

3. he was doing training films... I wonder how he got that cushy job. n/t

[OneTwentyoNine]

14. Same way Frank Sinatra,John Wayne,Mickey Rooney got out...

Connections,connections......Its always unjust who serves and who doesn't.

David

[terrya]

Reagan was stateside doing war morale films for Warner Brothers.

He didn't see one second of combat.

[physioex]

4. Was Bonzo there too? EOM

[freetobegay]

5. Maybe they have a picture of him on an aircraft carrier?

Seems to be the going theme.

[Bluzmann57]

6. That is an insult to the men who did...

A former neighbor of mine was actually there and he was a great man. He'd probably kick some butt if he heard something like that. RIP Harry. I know that you won't see Reagan in heaven my friend.

[terrya]

9. Hell, other stars volunteered for the military. Clark Gable did, as well..

as Jimmy Stewart. It's most curious that Reagan didn't.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

17. Being a Red Sox star didn't stop Ted Williams

in either WWII or Korea.

[woofless]

7. Of course he did.

He served coffee and doughnuts at the Hollywood Canteen.

[mitchum]

8. What, did he land a makeup table on Normandy Beach?

I'm sure that deluded idiot thought that he was at D-Day

[dflprincess]

10. He did not, but Yogi Berra did.

I just heard that Friday. Yogi was in the Navy and on one of the ships that took troops over to Normandy. The report said he doesn't talk about it much.

[Vickers]

11. Who posted he was making a VD-awareness film for AFRTS on that day?

If true, that's hilarious.

[MnFats]

12. Didn't Reagan and John Wayne get boooed at some USO..

...appearance in Europe?
help me out here.
I recall reading that the combat-weary soldiers were also weary of seeing poseurs coming around to act like they were part of the 'band of brothers'......

[DeaconBlues]

13. Reagan and Bonzo parachuted in behind the lines

They took Paris singlehandedly.

[robbedvoter]

15. I think Ronnie started believing it too. Movies became false war memories

to him.

[OneTwentyoNine]

16. Yeah he served--here's your proof.....

http://warmovieposters.8m.com/HellcatsoftheNavy-neth-os.html

Idolized even by the Japanese....

David

[misanthrope]

18. Yep, he also...

...wrote the Constitution, won the Mexican War, freed the slaves, invented the light bulb, developed the theory of relativity, designed the first four generations of American fighter planes, ended the Depression by firebombing New Deal agencies, commanded the fleet at Midway, planted the flag at Iwo Jima (alongside John Wayne), piloted the Enola Gay, saved Stalingrad from the Germans, shot Mussolini, destroyed over 80% of the German emplacements in Operation Overlord, ended Communism when every previous POTUS had sought to facillitate the spread of domestic Communism, and flew the first solo flights to the moon and Mars.

Gee, haven't you been watching TV?

[NewHampshireDem]

19. I know ... I was confused by all of the "Normandy" references ...

until I remembered the Peggy Noonan speech he gave there. :smacks head: I actually heard one talking head refer to his "performance in Normandy." Since when is it the job of the press to keep the uninformed uniformed?

[DieboldMustDie]

20. He liberated the concentration camps too!

:crazy: