packsaddle 753 Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 Wow, that one is so good I hope it's true. The date of the landing and his age are causing me to wonder, though. Can anyone confirm this? Link to post Share on other sites
FScouter 24 Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 Keeshan was a marine, but saw no action. http://www.snopes.com/military/keeshan.htm Link to post Share on other sites
Fuzzy Bear 12 Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 So, that is why they called him Captain. He was a Sergeant. I think I am beginning to understand. What about the Kangaroo? Maybe it was because he was shot in the down under? Sorry, awful joke. Shouldn't have done it, sorry Link to post Share on other sites
Fat Old Guy 11 Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 According to his obit, the Kangaroo part came form the capacious pockets on his jacket. Link to post Share on other sites
Fuzzy Bear 12 Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 The Captain lives! There just has to be book with all of the answers to the many questions the Captain left us with to ponder. Link to post Share on other sites
packsaddle 753 Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 Oh sepulchre! The story is not true. But the next question is: Did Lee Marvin really say that (pulling our legs), or did someone else create that as a fiction as well? Link to post Share on other sites
Fat Old Guy 11 Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 I did some research on this issue a while back when a fellow Scouter sent me the story. As I recall, the Carson thing never happened and Marvin never won the Navy Cross. Link to post Share on other sites
redfox420 10 Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 I could watch the Captain Kangaroo show for hours. It came on 30 minutes after I got back from school and it was a cold day in july when I missed it Link to post Share on other sites
packsaddle 753 Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 "...now don't tell me....I got nothin' to do..." Link to post Share on other sites
Eamonn 61 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Packsaddle I enjoyed both the books and the TV series that James Herriot was involved in.While his real name was James Alfred Wight OBE. He was a real Yorkshire Vet joining the Yorkshire practice of J.Donald Sinclair in 1940. How much of the work is fiction? We will never know. Sad to say he died of of cancer at home in Yorkshire on Feb. 23,1995. Even after his books made him famous he continued his veterinary practice saying "If a farmer calls me with a sick animal, he doesn't care if I'm George Bernard Shaw." As well as the Vet books he also wrote a lot of books for children. He did serve in the RAF as is in one of the books and was over in the USSR looking after sheep and was in Istanbul looking after cattle. If I remember right All Creatures was on one channel while at the same time The Dukes Of Hazard was on the other. At that time we only had 3 channels. Eamonn(This message has been edited by Eamonn) Link to post Share on other sites
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