Memorial Day Public Service Announcement

Once again last night, I received an email that must circulate often. It is an apparently inspiring story about late actor Lee Marvin's tour of duty during WWII and how he fought with Bob Keeshan, better known as Captain Kangaroo, at Iwo Jima Later. The email adds that Fred Rogers, better known as Mister Rogers, served as a U.S. Navy Seal with over twenty-five confirmed kills. The email says that Mister Rogers wore long-sleeved sweaters to cover his tattoos and that after his military service he became a pacifist and so created his children's program.

Lee Marvin did serve in WWII. He was injured at Saipan, not Iwo Jima.

The Bob Keeshan story is fabricated.

So is the Fred Rogers story.

If you'd like to read the details go here and here.