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Actor James Garner interview


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So yesterday as I got ready for duty I flipped the TV on to the Decades network. They were showing an old episode of the Dick Cavett Show wherein he was interviewing him and brought up his (James Garner's) Korean War service. Garner explained that his unit was on a hilltop during a Chinese/North Korean advance. Their position was cut off and in short time was now 8 miles behind enemy lines. Garner went on to say that the soldier who had their identity panels was killed or captured and they were in the middle of an air strike by US Navy Panther jets. One of them strafed his position and as he dove into his foxhole, he was struck in the posterior by a projectile. Garner then went on to say that his position was taking so much fire he decided to vacate his foxhole but in the confusion fell off the hillside and rolled down over 200 yards. Cavett asked him if it felt weird getting a Purple Heart for being shot at by American fire. Garner replied "No" as it made up for the Purple Heart he had received a few weeks earlier for being struck by enemy mortar fire!

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