Re: No evidence Fred Rogers was a sniper.

On Mar 29, 6:50 pm, The Lone Weasel <lonewea...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

FerdinandAkin <FerdinandA...@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

GatherNoMoss wrote:

I've been hearing this off and on for years.
Let's not give give credit where it's not due.

Urban legends

Fred Rogers has been the subject of a few urban legends. Among the
urban legends and rumors about Rogers:

That he served in the military around the era of the Vietnam war.
That he was a Marine sniper, or a Navy SEAL, and that the reason for
him always wearing cardigans was to cover tattoos on his arms.
That he had a skull tattoo on his arm for every man that he killed as
a sniper.
That he stuck his middle finger up to his young audience during his
final broadcast in 2000.
Rumors to this effect have been completely discounted as being false
on urban legend verification websites[15]. Not only is military
service not mentioned in any biographies about him, but there is no
period of time, unaccounted for, where he could have been involved in
war efforts. During most of the Vietnam conflict, he was fully
dedicated to his television show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and
before that, around the start of Vietnam, he was living and working in
Canada, and was working on getting rights for his show and moving it
to Pittsburgh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers

Claim: Children's television show host Fred Rogers hid a violent and
criminal past.

Status: False.

Origins:
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mrrogers.asp

But it's true that Mr. Rogers is the real life person on whom John Rambo is
based. I was told that by somebody who actually knew Fred Rogers and John
Rambo.

* The name "Rambo" came from a brand of apples of the same name
(source:
writer's commentary, First Blood: Special Edition).
*I n Japanese, "rambo" means "violence".
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083944/trivia>

* Ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1963.
* He earned his divinity degree from the Pittsburgh Theological
Seminary in 1962. The Presbyterian church ordained him and charged him
with a special mission: in effect, to keep on doing what he was doing
on television.
<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736872/bio>

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