23 Celebrities Who Served in the Military

[Ian Livingston]

Well, I gave up looking for the rest of their list, but I'm fairly sure
they'd note their most significant native son. You know, the guy who did
the Star Spangled Banner.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thomas Pynchon served in the Navy.
>
> Considering his monumental importance to American letters and literature
> in general, little is actually known about Pynchon, who refuses to be
> photographed and doesn't grant interviews.
>
> One of the only confirmed photos of the author of such celebrated
> postmodern doorstops as Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon is from his
> two-year stint in the US Navy, which came in the middle of his four years
> at Cornell University in the late 1950s.
>
> Pynchon's time in the Navy is evident in many of his major works: V.
> follows the misadventures of a recently-discharged Navy sailor in early-60s
> New York. Gravity's Rainbow, which takes place in World War II's European
> theater and revolves around Nazi Germany's V-2 missile program, is
> particularly rife with military-related themes and characters.
>
>
> http://www.seattlepi.com/technology/businessinsider/article/23-Celebrities-Who-Served-In-The-Military-4973311.php
>
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