QuoteOriginally posted by Robbie@Nov 15 2004, 07:21 PM
[b]What was Duke stated to have done that got him the Gold congressional medal.
According to this , Robbie, it was presented to him in recognition of "his distinguished career as an actor and service to the nation". I'll let you decipher the meaning of that. :lol:
QuoteOriginally posted by arthurarnell@Sep 20 2004, 02:44 AM
You are right I will never forget Saturday, and what these people don't realise or couldn,' care about is this was the only chance myself and many many people like me will have of seeing her, some like me have watched her pictures since the early fifties, and although other might deride it as trite, for about six hundred people Saturday was an unforgettable experience.
I had an experience like that the last time I was stationed in Germany (US European Command in Stuttgart). One day I was sitting in my office and one of my soldiers rushed in and breathlessly said, "Hey, Sarge, guess who I just saw down at the tennis courts?" I said, "Who? and he said "Charlton Heston". (This was about 1973)
Well, since Heston has always been one of my favorite actors I naturally went to the tennis courts to see if the guy was telling the truth. Sure enough, there he was big as life, er, Moses, playing tennis with an officer. 
Straightaway, I rushed to my quarters and got one of my books about the movies, went back to the courts and after he finished his game, asked him to autograph my book. He asked my name and when I told him, he wrote on the flyleaf "Jim, Glad to have met you in Stuttgart. [signed] CHARLTON HESTON." It's a treasured possession.
I learned later that his sister was married to one of the generals we had in the headquarters and he was visiting her.
