Kevin Tarr wrote:
> Just heard something funny, any of course completely untrue: Mr. Rogers was
> a Sergeant during Vietnam and he wore long sleeve shirts all the time
> because his arms were 'sleeved': covered with tattoos from shoulder to
> wrist. After the war he blah blah blah to help kids blah blah blah. I was
> laughing too hard.
>
> I've heard worse things. Small minded people needing to drag others down.
If you put together the stuff in his obit, I don't see when he would have
been in Viet Nam.
1950s: doing puppets on a show on WQED
1963: ordained a minister
1963: began "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" in Canada
1967: "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" airs on WQED
1968: "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" picked up by PBS
Now, unless he was in Viet Nam very early on, it didn't happen.
And I thought I remembered once a little movie of him going swimming,
dressed just in swim trunks, and he didn't have tattoos then.... This would
have been the early 1970s.
Julia
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