Actor R. Lee Ermey is living up to the Marine Corps’ mantra: “A Few Good Men.”
The former Marine drill instructor and host of The History Channel’s “Mail Call” was in Missoula, Mont., on Monday to film a segment for his upcoming series “Locked and Loaded” when he said he found some cash. A lot of cash.
Ermey, best known for playing the drill instructor in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” said he was driving with crew member Harlan Glenn to a museum when he spotted a black object on the road.
Ermey stopped the car and picked up the bag, which contained cash and checks that looked like they were meant for deposit in a Native American fund.
“Just on one deposit slip alone was, like, $3,700, and another one for $2,800,” Glenn said. “There was easily $8,000 in cash.”
Don Luke, a business expert at the Wells Fargo branch, said he was surprised to see Ermey. “We weren’t sure if it wasn’t ‘Candid Camera,”’ Luke said.
Madonna has promised $500,000 to help victims of Italy’s devastating earthquake, said Fernando Caparso, mayor of Pacentro, the mountainside village where two of the pop star’s grandparents were born.
Carparso told the Associated Press on Wednesday that that he had spoken to the pop star’s manager and that he was deeply moved by Madonna’s effort to assist the town as well as surrounding areas.
“Madonna was the only one who could help us,” he said. “Other then being a great singer, a great rock star and an intelligent woman, with this gesture she has become a great woman,” he said.
Russell Dunham, a World War II Army veteran who received the Medal of Honor, the military’s highest decoration for valor, after he assaulted three German machine gun emplacements, killed nine German soldiers and took two prisoners on a snowy morning in 1945, died Monday at his home in Godfrey, Ill., of congestive heart failure. He was 89.
Dunham was born in East Carondelet, Ill., on Feb. 23, 1920, and grew up in Fosterburg, Ill. When he was about 16, he went to live with brother Ralph in St. Louis, and the two young men made a Depression-era living selling soup and tamales on the street and in bars.
After the war, Dunham worked for 32 years as a benefits counselor with the Veterans Administration in St. Louis.
Associated Press
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