Grew up just south of the IL/WI state line. Lived in Detroit, Memphis, Seattle, Wisconsin, Southern Illinois.
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Aviation, Gunnery, Historical fact & fiction, Ancient civilizations, reading, camping, fishing, traveling
The Good the Bad the Ugly, The Searchers, The Sandpebbles, The Big Lebowski, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Boondock Saints, Rushmore(anything Wes Anderson did), The French Connection, Fight Club, The Indiana Jones trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Mad Max trilogy. As for Top Gun....IT SUCKED! Movies about Naval Aviation that were 100 times better The Bridges at Toko Ri, Flight of the Intruder, The Great Santini, and yes still better than Top Gun...The Final Countdown.
Battlestar Galactica, Band of Brothers, CSI, anything on the History Channel, Myth Busters, Deadwood, Rome, Hill Street Blues, Tour of Duty, The X-Files
Authors: Anything by Mark Twain especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, All of JRR Tolkien's works, Stephen Lawhead (Pendragon Cycle, Byzantium, Patrick), Leon Uris' (Trinity, Redemption, Battle Cry), Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, Harry Turtledove's alternate history.
*Presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy *Military: HM3(FMF) Thomas J. Logan USN, PFC Joseph L. Logan jr. USA BSM PH, CPL Ralph Holewinski USMC BSM PH, LT Col Oliver North USMC SS PH, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt USA MH, Sergeant Alvin York USA MH, General Billy Mitchell USAAC DSC DSM, Lieutenant jg George H.W. Bush USN DFC AMx3, Lieutenant jg John F. Kennedy USN NMCM, Gunny R Lee Ermy USMC (Ooh Ra!) *Actors: John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman (Easy Reader), Gunny R Lee Ermy USMC (Ooh Ra!), Ronald Reagan *Radio: Sean Hannity, Laura Ingram, Roe Cohn Jim & Christina on WLS. *Musicians: Bob Dylan, The Beatles (especially George) *Athletes: Walter Payton (Sweetness), Michael Jordan *Ficticious Heroes: The Dude "aka Jeffrey Lebowski"*More to be added later.