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Leith Files Today we have a bunch of loser politicians, pathetic sports figures, and Commission Minutes 2014 Hollywood pretenders causing hate and discontent throughout every aspect of life while they contribute nothing of substance to our country. Commission Minutes 2015 It is with overwhelming sadness that we look at this list of people and see how it Commission Minutes 2016 used to be. People like John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Kirk Douglas would not be making meaningless threats about leaving the country and throwing Commission Minutes 2017 tantrums if their candidate for the presidency of the United States of America didn't get elected. Sheriff Reports Many of you have served and I have known so many of my generation ND Response throughout my lifetime who have served with me in combat that have fought and died in Vietnam and other hotspots throughout the world. Morton County Press It is with a profound sense of pride and obligation that I personally thank all Morton County Videos those men and women who have served in our military to include myself, my wife, my father, my brother, my grandfather, my grandmother and more. Contact Us Here below, we have Hollywood represented by those of the "Greatest Generation". Compare them to the Hollywood "Morons" of today. CLICK For Cartoon Of The Week Today's Quote The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 2/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota Salvador Dali more Quotes Contact Us Audie Murphy, America's most decorated soldier, who became a Hollywood star as a result of his US Army service that included his being honored with the Medal of Honor. John Wayne, declared '4F medically unfit' due to pre-existing injuries, he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army, Navy and Film Corps.) so he gets an honorable mention and is my personal hero. James Stewart, US Army Air Corps. Bomber pilot who rose to the rank of General. Kirk Douglas, US Navy. Sub-chaser in the Pacific. Wounded in action and medically discharged. Sterling Hayden, US Marines and OSS. Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and parachuted into Croatia. As a busboy at the age of 13 I used to serve coee to this man where my mother was the manager. He developed a crush on her much to the annoyance of my father. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 3/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota George Gobel comedian taught fighter pilots - I believe it was in Oklahoma. Johnny Carson made a big deal about it once on the Tonight Show, to which George said, "The Japs didn't get past us!" Ernest Borgnine, US Navy. Gunners Mate 1st class - Destroyer USS Lamberton. Ed McMahon, US Marines. Fighter Pilot. Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well. Telly Savalas, US Army. Walter Matthau, US Army Air Corps. B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 4/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota Steve Forrest, US Army. Wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. Jonathan Winters, USMC. Battleship USS Wisconsin and Aircra Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard. Anti-aircra gunner at the Battle of Okinawa. Paul Newman, US Navy Rear seat gunner/radioman in torpedo bombers of the USS Bunker Hill. Robert Mitchum, US Army. Dale Robertson, US Army. Tank Commander in North Africa under Patton. Wounded twice. Battlefield Commission. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 5/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota Henry Fonda, US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee. John Carroll, US Army Air Corps. Pilot in North Africa. Broke his back in a crash. Lee Marvin US Marines. Sniper. Wounded in action on Saipan. Buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Section 7A next to Greg (Pappy) Boyington and Joe Louis. Art Carney, US Army. Wounded on Normandy beach, D-Day. Limped for the rest of his life. Wayne Morris, US Navy fighter pilot, USS Essex. Downed seven Japanese fighters. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 6/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota Rod Steiger, US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid. Tony Curtis, US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan. Larry Storch. US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis. Forrest Tucker, US Army. Enlisted as a private, rose to Lieutenant. Robert Montgomery, US Navy. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 7/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota George Kennedy, US Army. Enlisted aer Pearl Harbor, stayed in sixteen years. Mickey Rooney, US Army under Patton. Bronze Star. Denver Pyle, US Navy. Wounded in the Battle of Guadalcanal. Medically discharged. Burgess Meredith, US Army Air Corps. DeForest Kelley, US Army Air Corps. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 8/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota Robert Stack, US Navy. Gunnery Oicer. Neville Brand, US Army, Europe. Was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart. Tyrone Power, US Marines. Transport pilot in the Pacific Theater. Charlton Heston, US Army Air Corps. Radio operator and aerial gunner on a B- 25, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Danny Aiello, US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at 16. Served three years. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 9/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota James Arness, US Army. As an infantryman, he was severely wounded at Anzio, Italy. Efram Zimbalist, Jr., US Army. Purple Heart for a severe wound received at Huertgen Forest. Mickey Spillane, US Army Air Corps. Fighter pilot and later Instructor pilot. Rod Serling, US Army. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific. He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila. Gene Autry, US Army Air Corps. Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over "The Hump" in the China-Burma-India Theater. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 10/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota William Holden, US Army Air Corps. Alan Hale Jr, US Coast Guard. I met this man while in the US Coast Guard. Russell Johnson, US Army Air Corps. B-24 crewman who was awarded Purple Heart when his aircra was shot down by the Japanese in the Philippines. William Conrad, US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot. Jack Klugman, US Army. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 11/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota Frank Sutton, US Army. Took part in 14 assault landings, including Leyte, Luzon, Bataan and Corregidor. Jackie Coogan, US Army Air Corps. Volunteered for gliders and flew troops and materials into Burma behind enemy lines. Tom Bosley, US Navy. Claude Akins, US Army. Signal Corps. Burma and the Philippines. Chuck Connors, US Army. Tank warfare instructor. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 12/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota Harry Carey Jr., US Navy. Mel Brooks, US Army. Combat Engineer. Saw action in the Battle of the Bulge. Robert Altman, US Army Air Corps. B-24 Co-Pilot. Pat Hingle, US Navy. Destroyer USS Marshall. Fred Gwynne, US Navy. Radioman. Karl Malden, US Army Air Corps. 8th Air Force, NCO. file:///A:/My Documents/CLIENTS/GCN/WEBSITE/GCN/editorialmemorialday2017.htm 13/22 11/24/2020 Welcome To Grant County ND News Serving Southwestern And South Central North Dakota Earl Holliman. US Navy. Lied about his age to enlist. Discharged aer a year when the Navy found out. Rock Hudson, US Navy. Aircra mechanic, the Philippines. Harvey Korman, US Navy. Aldo Ray. US Navy. UDT frogman, Okinawa. Don Knotts, US Army, Pacific Theater.