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Posted: 6/27/2008 7:01:18 AM EDT
Do you believe that it's untrue?
The story is that Mr. Rogers was in special forces in Vietnam back in the early days when they were the first advisors over there. He saw a lot of killing and violence which affected him so much that when he came back to the states he devoted his life to making Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, a show about happiness and goodness. Recently, somebody told me that he always wore long sleeves on the show to cover his special forces tattoos. |
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Snopes is your friend. The story is utter bullshit. Mr. Rogers never served in the .mil.
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that's just misinformation put out by the CIA to cover his covert activities. ETA: a "black op" if you will. |
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Of course that's what they want you to think. But as I understand it, from a very reliable source, Mr. Rogers was HALO'd into Moscow on several occasions. |
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he was one of only a few Army SEALS, the Mr. Rogers Neighbourhood was a cover for the SSDG school.
it's true, I read it on the interwebs AT a gunshow, so you know it's true! |
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As said, he never served in the military. He was a presbyterian minister, actually.
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all he wanted was something to eat. but the man kept pushing, sir.
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Mr Rogers was not in Vietman.
John Denver, however, was an accomplished sniper with over 27 confirmed kills. |
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That's what they want you to think. |
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Who says "they" and "I" aren't the same entity? |
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No way that 4-eyed fucker was a sniper! |
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Gotta go |
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I can totally believe it. He aimed his airplane at a spot in the ocean 15,000 feet below him and hit it dead nutz. |
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Yeah, and he also contracted the clap from a whore in The 'Nam. |
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Who ya gonna believe? Some book learnin' on Snopes or a guy that was really there?
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Bob Keeshan served in the Marines, but never saw combat www.snopes.com/military/marvin.asp
No, he wasn't. www.snopes.com/music/artists/denver.asp |
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Oh yeah! He was so good that they ground the glass in his scope to match his eye prescription! |
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he got a purple heart for that, it was in the line of duty. but the details are classified. he also turned down a secret medal of honor. |
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that's where they met, but I'm not at liberty to discuss anything further. |
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you guys are all haters - I know for a fact Mr Rogers was one of the few Ranger Seal Force Recon Team Members. My wife's boyfriend's sister's girlfriend's uncle's niece's lover's brother's lover's husband trainied with them on a remote island off the coast of arizona. Capt Kangaroo and John Denver were in the same unit - he said the best way to tell them was by their distinctive footwear - all unit members wear something called crocs.
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The cover-up has reached Snopes! |
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And Mr. Roger also had his own line of beef jerkies and salamis.
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So that's why he always wore pants |
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I sense much sarcasm in you. |
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Dropped from opposite ends of the Earth? The balanced concussion is probably the only reason we are still here. |
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www.snopes.com/music/artists/denver.asp The only thing John Denver ever had to do with the military was growing up in the household of an award-winning B-58 Hustler pilot of a father. Another interesting story: a friend of mine, his dad was in the USMC, a tanker who was in charge of the US landings in Lebanon in 1958, and his babysitter when he was growing up on military bases, was EmmyLou Harris! Last I heard, my friend, who I am long out of touch with, was a cop someplace on Cape Cod. |
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Uhhh...the same guy who was really there who also told me he saw "Mattel" on the receivers of M-16s, and that you can fire M-16 rounds in AK-47s. He was there! He swears it! |
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The secret is out, now "they" are going to kill us and lock all our heads in safes.
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twice in the same day. |
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Everybody knows that Mr. Rogers was the original Ollie North!!
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Mr. Rodgers code name was Agent Orange - He was a Navy Seal, Recon Marine, and green beret as well as being Hanoi Jane.
He also was Chuck Norris's father....... Look It UP! I was told this at a bar with this guy named maurice...... |
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Your wife's boyfriend's sister is a lesbian? How progressive. |
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Funnily enough, this one is actually true. |
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False www.snopes.com/music/artists/denver.asp |
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Rogers was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a town located 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. He was born to James and Nancy Rogers; he spent many years as an only child. He spent much of his free time as a child with his maternal grandfather, Fred McFeely, and had an interest in puppetry and music. He would often sing along as his mother would play the piano. He was red-green colorblind.[1]
His parents also acted as foster parents to an black teenager named George, whose mother had died. Rogers eventually came to consider George his older brother. George later became an instructor for the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II and also taught Rogers to fly.[2] Following secondary school, he studied at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire between 1946 and 1948 before transferring to Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He received a BA in music composition there in 1951. At Rollins, Rogers met his wife, Sara Joanne Byrd, whom he married on July 9, 1952.[3] They had two children, James (born in 1959) and John (born in 1961), and three grandsons, the third (Ian McFeely Rogers) born 12 days after Rogers' death.[4] In 1962, Rogers graduated from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). |
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That's BS. Robert Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo did serve in the USMC though, but never saw combat.
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When I was training to be a red beret sniper the lead singer from Coldplay was my instructor
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maybe his job with the military was highly classified? so top secret that even the Pentagon is hush hush about it?
that kind of stuff does happen maybe he was ex CIA? just because his biography on the internet doesnt mention any military service does not mean anything. |
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