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[etdbob]

Col. Marrion Michael Morrison indeed!

John Wayne working for walt disney?
Looks like California is one weird place.
Stands to reason, I suppose....

[Frank Bieser]

Col. Marrion Michael Morrison indeed!

John Wayne working for walt disney?
Looks like California is one weird place.
Stands to reason, I suppose....

yeah, it's really not all that different from our California. ;-)

[Jake B.]

Ya, 'cept for the fact that its not controlled by the governator, but more of a hitler-ish kind of bat rastard. Not much of a diff, but at least the governator used to be cool...

[Jen Zach]

Ya, 'cept for the fact that its not controlled by the governator, but more of a hitler-ish kind of bat rastard. Not much of a diff, but at least the governator used to be cool...

What do you mean, controlled by a sort of Hitler-ish rat bastard? The President of California is Walt Disney, not the Pink Panther Nazi.

[Scott]

In today's upload it should be explained that the alliance with the Nazis is something the state assembly has imposed on Disney. He is President-For-Life but not a dictator.

Eventually Disney will do something that shows that he really doesn't like those bastards.

[jselvy]

funny thing is, at the time Walt Disney was suspected of having Nazi sympathies


thanks
Jefferson

[Scott]

That was a smear the labor unions spread about him. Disney fought against unionization of his studios for as long as he could, and things got really nasty for a while.

[Scott]

Oh, by the way, for the record: John Wayne appears nowhere in our story.

The character referred to mistakenly as "John Wayne" is Marion Michael Morrison, known as "Mike" to his friends, and a career Marine officer. Never set foot on a sound stage except as a visitor.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

[Frankjc3rd]

Oh, by the way, for the record: John Wayne appears nowhere in our story.

The character referred to mistakenly as "John Wayne" is Marion Michael Morrison, known as "Mike" to his friends, and a career Marine officer. Never set foot on a sound stage except as a visitor.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Oh, OK John Wayne is not in the story.  Got it.

[archy]

Oh, by the way, for the record: John Wayne appears nowhere in our story.

The character referred to mistakenly as "John Wayne" is Marion Michael Morrison, known as "Mike" to his friends, and a career Marine officer. Never set foot on a sound stage except as a visitor.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

The timing would have been about right for *Iron Mike* Morrison to have pulled the Marine Duty in Haiti circa 1919-20, along with such luminaries as Marine SMAJ Dan Daly [double Medal of Honor recipient] and 2nd Lt [later BGEN] H. H. Hanneken, another Marine recipient of the MOH for his Haitian exploits. And for an encore, there was the period in the 1920's [1921 and 1926] during which armed robberies of US Mail resulted in the use of Marines as Mail Guards, primarily on Railway Post Offices thought to be *easy* targets before the Marines were so stationed. And the 1930's was the heyday of the *China Marines* in Singapore, so Mike's career could easily have been colourful and interestingl, indeed...and the reference to his speaking Spanish at home with his Mexican wives offers a hint that he could have been involved in the Nicaraguan *Bananna Wars* too....     

Those Marines back then were a serious bunch, indeed....

[wdg3rd]

Oh, by the way, for the record: John Wayne appears nowhere in our story.

The character referred to mistakenly as "John Wayne" is Marion Michael Morrison, known as "Mike" to his friends, and a career Marine officer. Never set foot on a sound stage except as a visitor.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

The timing would have been about right for *Iron Mike* Morrison to have pulled the Marine Duty in Haiti circa 1919-20, along with such luminaries as Marine SMAJ Dan Daly [double Medal of Honor recipient] and 2nd Lt [later BGEN] H. H. Hanneken, another Marine recipient of the MOH for his Haitian exploits. And for an encore, there was the period in the 1920's [1921 and 1926] during which armed robberies of US Mail resulted in the use of Marines as Mail Guards, primarily on Railway Post Offices thought to be *easy* targets before the Marines were so stationed. And the 1930's was the heyday of the *China Marines* in Singapore, so Mike's career could easily have been colourful and interestingl, indeed...and the reference to his speaking Spanish at home with his Mexican wives offers a hint that he could have been involved in the Nicaraguan *Bananna Wars* too....     

Marion Morrison was born May 26, 1907 in our universe (six weeks before Robert Heinlein).  Woulda been a bit too young for much military duty until the mid 1920s.

I drew my first breath on Morrison's 48th birthday.

[Rocketman]

Guys, I've been told by someone who should know that Smedley Butler was the only two time MOH winner in history.  Are you sure about this Dan Daly?   

[Zen Redneck]

Coincidentally, Smedley Butler was President of Texas from 1934 to 1943.

[doc]

Yep, Dan Daly won it twice, as did Smedley Butler.  During the War of 1861-65 there were a number of double MOH awards, the most well known being Tom Custer, George's brother.  BTW, Ol' Smedley wrote a book after his retirement entitled "War is a Racket" condemning the USA's interventionist policies.
I trust he was a good president of Texas.

[Zen Redneck]

Yep.  He helped keep Texas out of WWII.