Vic Morrow of the TV series Combat Shows the Honor and Goodness that our Culture still had in the 60s
I finished watching the first season of Vic Morrow’s TV series
Combat on DVD. It shows the honor and goodness that our culture still
had in the 60s.
Morrow’s character the Sarge is to this day, for me, an image of what a hero should be. Tough and courageous, but compassionate.
Vic Morrow played the hero and on the set he was a hero. The assistant
director of Combat Michael Caffey in the audio commentary for the Combat
DVD had this to say about Morrow:
“He was very nice person. He never yelled at anyone...He was very quiet
when he had something to say... He had a 104 temperature in one show. He
was there. He should have been in the hospital. It’s a wonder it didn’t
kill him. He was just tremendous. He reached down into a tank and
pulled someone out in one show and got a double hernia. So they put the
little belts on him and he went right on acting. He was an amazing man.
He was very knowledgeable about film and what it could do. It was
pleasure to have him...I can’t speak highly enough of him. ”
Tom Lowell, who played Billy in the series, said on an audio commentary
for the DVD that “Vic” didn’t care about the “series being successful,
he wanted it to be good.” Before it was ever shot “Vic and the director”
would go over the script for hours to make sure it was “good.”
Yes, Vic Morrow on Combat was a hero. He showed us that being a hero
always begins with being good in our day-in and day-out life.
And as Caffey said “He was very knowledgeable about film and what it
could do,” so Morrow knew what he was doing in creating a heroic model
as an actor and director in the series.
I know that I’ve said the following other times, but it needs to be
repeated. What our American and global culture needs are heroes as
models.
Steve Ditko, the artist and co-creator of Spider-Man says, "Aristotle
said that art is more important than history. History tells how man did
act. Art shows how man should and could act. It creates a model.” "The
self-flawed and anti-hero provide the heroic label without the need to
act better. A crooked cop, a flawed cop, is not a valid model of a good
law enforcer,"
Ditko said:
"An anti-cop corrupts the legal good, and an anti-hero corrupts the moral good."
According to one website, Morrow’s character the Sarge was a model for the soldier in the Vietnam:
“I have a cousin who did 13 months as a Marine grunt in Nam back in
68-69. He said that in the area he was in, the South Vietnamese Army
Commanders showed reruns of Vic Morrow's early sixties series COMBAT! to
their troops. They thought old Vic was a badder ass than John Wayne
himself. They went nuts for the guy. Years later, I bought a book on
armored units used in the Vietnam War... I found a photograph in it of
an ARVN tank circa. 1968, with VIC MORROW scrawled across the turret in
huge white letters.”
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Some might say this is a bad example because a small number of soldiers
in that war did dishonorable acts. But the vast majority of the soldiers
in the Vietnam War who were honorable were so because of models in art
and real life who were like the Sarge.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask God what He want you to do next. Make
this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading
anything here or anywhere else on the Internet
Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
- Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: "212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted...Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden" [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
- Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times "Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003": http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]