Charles Durning: Badass December 25, 2012
Posted by digitalbrownshirt in News.trackback
He was among the first wave of U.S. soldiers to land at Normandy during the D-Day invasion and the only member of his Army unit to survive. He killed several Germans and was wounded in the leg. Later he was bayoneted by a young German soldier whom he killed with a rock. He was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and survived a massacre of prisoners.
In later years, he refused to discuss the military service for which he was awarded the Silver Star and three Purple Hearts.
An excerpt from my favorite of his many excellent character portrayals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01QK5ovQNfE
He would have been much better than Brian Dennehy in Tootsie.