Martha Raye VS Sean Penn
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This lady lived probably before most of my readers time: BUT, if you ever watch the old movie channels you will recognize this woman. Her name was Martha Raye. After you read this, and you think about the movie stars in our generation, you will wonder like me: WHAT happened to them? For instance: Here we see Sean Penn holding the Egyptian flag, supporting the revolution…in EGYPT. Most of them are anti-American. (Thanks to Tom Beebe)
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This is a great story about a great woman. I was unaware of her credentials or where she is buried. Most of the old time entertainers were made out of a lot sterner stuff than today’s crop of activists and whiners. The following is from an Army Aviator who takes a trip down memory lane:
It was just before Thanksgiving ’67 and we were ferrying dead and wounded from a large GRF west of Pleiku. We had run out of body bags by noon, so the Hook ( CH-47 CHINOOK) was pretty rough in the back. All of a sudden, we heard a ‘take-charge’ woman’s voice in the rear.
There was the singer and actress, Martha Raye, with a SF ( Special Forces) beret and jungle fatigues, with subdued markings, helping the wounded into the Chinook, and carrying the dead aboard. ‘Maggie’ had been visiting her SF ‘heroes’ out ‘west’.
We took off, short of fuel, and headed to the USAF hospital pad at Pleiku. As we all started unloading our sad pax’s, a ‘Smart Ass’ USAF Captain said to Martha…. Ms Ray, with all these dead and wounded to process, there would not be time for your show!
To all of our surprise, she pulled on her right collar and said…..Captain, see this eagle? I am a full ‘Bird’ in the US Army Reserve, and on this is a ‘Caduceus’ which means I am a Nurse, with a surgical specialty….now, take me to your wounded. He said, yes mam’…. Follow me.Several times at the Army Field Hospital in Pleiku, she would ‘cover’ a surgical shift, giving a nurse a well-deserved break.
Martha is the only woman buried in the SF (Special Forces) cemetery at Ft. Bragg . 
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This is a wonderful post. I knew of the actress, but not of her service. These are things that should not be forgotten. It is a shame that she is known for her entertainment, but not her service that goes to show you where we place value in our society.
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Agreed… Martha was a fine American and patriot. I think I first saw her in Abbott and Costello movies and I ended up learning more about her tireless support for our troops.
Great post. Thanks!
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Thanks for the spotlight on a much missed comedic actress that surely Shirley few of us realized, myself included, was a true American and a heroine at that. It makes me wonder what else is unknown about her spirit of selfless service !
Jimmy Stewart was another actor who, unknown to many, was an Air Force (Army Air Corp. then) General and bomber pilot in WWII. He is also much missed.
Sean Penn is not worthy of my spit, but that is all I have for him and his ilk !
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Full marks to a fine woman.
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