Who's On YOUR Ultra-Cool Humans List?

tunedlength wrote:

Waits
Gurney
Gretzky
Laporte

Rupert X wrote:

When " COOL" is mentioned - who spills into your mental lounge of COOL folk ? For me, it's people like Steve McQueen, Jackie Kennedy, Ricky...

When " COOL" is mentioned - who spills into your mental lounge of COOL folk ?


For me, it's people like Steve McQueen, Jackie Kennedy, Ricky Johnson, MC ESCHER,

Jimmy Page, David Bowie, Michael Jordan, Jean-Michel Bayle, Dean Karnatzes,

Magnus Magnusson, Nelson Mandela, Jackie Stewart, Robert Downey Jr.,

Steve Martin, Annie Lennox, Jimi Hendrix, Sir Paul McCartney, Dominique Wilkins,

Michael Schumacher, Chuck Yeager .... and a bunch more.

Who's on your list ?

Original 44 wrote:

Ed Freeman the bravest man I ever met. Beyond his service in the Navy in World War II, he reached the Army rank of first sergeant...

Ed Freeman the bravest man I ever met.

Beyond his service in the Navy in World War II, he reached the Army rank of first sergeant by the time of the Korean War. Although he was in the Corps of Engineers, he fought as an infantry soldier in Korea. He participated in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill and earned a battlefield commission as one of only 14 survivors out of 257 men who made it through the opening stages of the battle. His second lieutenant-bars were pinned on by General James Van Fleet personally. The commission made him eligible to become a pilot, a childhood dream of his. He then assumed command of B Company and led them back up Pork Chop Hill. However, when he applied for pilot training he was told that, at six feet four inches, he was "too tall" for pilot duty. The phrase stuck, and he was known by the nickname of "Too Tall" for the rest of his career.

In 1955, the height limit for pilots was raised and Freeman was accepted into flying school. He first flew airplanes before switching to helicopters. After the Korean War, he flew the world on mapping missions. By the time he was sent to Vietnam in 1965, he was an experienced helicopter pilot and was placed second-in-command of his sixteen-craft unit. He served as a captain in Company A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile).

Vietnam service:
On November 14, 1965, Freeman and his unit transported a battalion of American soldiers to the Ia Drang Valley. Later, after arriving back at base, they learned that the soldiers had come under intense fire and had taken heavy casualties. Enemy fire around the landing zones was so heavy that the medical evacuation helicopters refused to fly in to the landing zone. Freeman and his commander, Major Bruce Crandall, volunteered to fly their unarmed, lightly armored helicopters in support of the embattled troops. Freeman made a total of fourteen trips to the battlefield, bringing in water and ammunition and taking out wounded soldiers from what was later named the Battle of Ia Drang. He was formally presented with the Medal of Honor on July 16, 2001.

Rupert X wrote:

WOW. Very cool. Thanks for bringing that up.

Ed Freeman.

Void Main wrote:

Two groups, neither cooler than the other: Richard Stallman Linus Torvalds Ken Thompson Dennis Ritchie Brian Kernighan Chuck Yeager John Glenn Neil Armstrong Buzz Adrin Michael...

Two groups, neither cooler than the other:

Richard Stallman
Linus Torvalds
Ken Thompson
Dennis Ritchie
Brian Kernighan

Chuck Yeager
John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Adrin
Michael Collins
Jim Lovell
Gus Grissom
Scott Carpenter
Gene Kranz

fencepost wrote:

THIS GUY[img]https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4051/4296275652_f80cfca849_o.jpg[/img]

THIS GUY

Rupert X wrote:

As a playwright and author, he was brilliant - but his modeling and acting careers

were duds.