Ice-T
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U.S. Army |
American musician and actor. Born Tracy Morrow, better known by
his stage name Ice-T. As a musician, Ice-T played a major role in
the creation of the gangsta incarnation of hip-hop music and was a
colossus of the West Coast hip-hop scene, despite his East Coast,
greater New York, origins. Though his music displays a political
consciousness, like the indictments of racism that were a hallmark of
seminal hip-hop group Public Enemy. His most infamous song, the
heavy metal "Cop Killer," was one of the major battle in the cultural
wars of the 1990s. The charismatic Ice-T has also achieved success
as an actor in movies and on TV. He plays Detective Odafin Tutuola
on the TV series Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), which is ironic for someone
famous for "Cop Killer" and his feud with the L.A.P.D.
Joined after high school and served for four years in the 25th Infantry. |
Don Imus
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U.S. Marine Corps
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American radio host, humorist, philanthropist and writer. His
nationally-syndicated talk show,
Imus in the
Morning, is broadcast throughout the United States by Citadel Media
and relayed on television by the Fox Business Network. Imus won
four Marconi Awards, three for Major Market Personality of the Year
(1990, 1992 and 1997) and one for Network Syndicated Personality (1994).
He was named one of the 25 Most Influential People in America in Time
magazine (April 21, 1997) and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame
in 1989. In 2002, Talkers magazine ranked Imus as one of the 25
greatest radio talk show hosts of all time.
Served as
a bugler from 1957 to 1960. |
Burl Ives
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U.S. Army
& U.S. Army Air Forces
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American actor, writer and folk music singer. As an actor, Ives's
work included comedies, dramas, and voice work in theater, television,
and motion pictures. Over the course of a long and diverse show
business career, this imposing 300 pound singer appeared in some 30
movies, a dozen Broadway productions and recorded over 100 albums while
making countless radio and television appearances. He played Big
Daddy in the movie version of
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(1958) and won an Oscar for best supporting actor in
The Big Country
(1958), both in 1958. In 1964 he was singer-narrator of
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed
Reindeer (1964) (TV).
In early 1942, Ives was drafted into the U.S. Army. He spent time
first at Camp Dix, then at Camp Upton, where he joined the cast of
Irving Berlin's This Is the Army. He attained the rank of
corporal. When the show went to Hollywood, he was transferred to
the Army Air Force. He was discharged honorably, apparently for
medical reasons, in September 1943. |
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