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Also, it’s not that hard to just look at a previous entry to get the link to any given song.

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You kids nowadays, afraid to do a little work.

Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”
  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son”
  4. Hillary Clinton - “Rose’s Turn”
  5. Neil Patrick Harris The Last Man in My Life
  6. Cecil Adams - “It Ain’t Necessarily So”
  7. Barack Obama - “Take this Job and Shove It”
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Owing to the needless expansion of the demands of what is supposed to be a fun, rather than burdensome topic, it is not surprising that there has not been a single compliant response in the past 24 hours.

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Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”
  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son”
  4. Hillary Clinton - “Rose’s Turn”
  5. Neil Patrick Harris The Last Man in My Life
  6. Cecil Adams - “It Ain’t Necessarily So”
  7. Barack Obama - “Take this Job and Shove It”
  8. Donald Trump - You’re So Vain Carly Simon - You're So Vain - YouTube
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Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House”

  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”

  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son”

  4. Hillary Clinton - “Rose’s Turn”

  5. Neil Patrick Harris The Last Man in My Life

  6. Cecil Adams - “It Ain’t Necessarily So”

  7. Barack Obama - “Take this Job and Shove It”

  8. Donald Trump - You’re So Vain Carly Simon - You're So Vain - YouTube
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  9. Johnny Depp- Hit the Road Jack

(He’s going through what promises to be a nasty divorce.)

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Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”
  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son”
  4. Hillary Clinton - “Rose’s Turn”
  5. Neil Patrick Harris The Last Man in My Life
  6. Cecil Adams - “It Ain’t Necessarily So”
  7. Barack Obama - “Take this Job and Shove It”
  8. Donald Trump - You’re So Vain Carly Simon - You're So Vain - YouTube
  9. Johnny Depp- Hit the Road Jack
  10. Bernie Sanders - Don’t Stop believin’
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From whom? His actual wife, or Tim Burton & Helena Bonham Carter? :cool:

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Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”
  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son”
  4. Hillary Clinton - “Rose’s Turn”
  5. Neil Patrick Harris The Last Man in My Life
  6. Cecil Adams - “It Ain’t Necessarily So”
  7. Barack Obama - “Take this Job and Shove It”
  8. Donald Trump - You’re So Vain Carly Simon - You're So Vain - YouTube
  9. Johnny Depp- Hit the Road Jack
  10. Bernie Sanders - Don’t Stop believin’
  11. Sarah Palin - “Barracuda”
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Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”
  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son”
  4. Hillary Clinton - “Rose’s Turn”
  5. Neil Patrick Harris The Last Man in My Life
  6. Cecil Adams - “It Ain’t Necessarily So”
  7. Barack Obama - “Take this Job and Shove It”
  8. Donald Trump - You’re So Vain Carly Simon - You're So Vain - YouTube
  9. Johnny Depp- Hit the Road Jack
  10. Bernie Sanders - Don’t Stop believin’
  11. Sarah Palin - “Barracuda”
  12. Bill Clinton – Toby Kieth’s “That’s my house & that’s my car
    That’s my dog in my back yard”
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]Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”
  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son”
  4. Hillary Clinton - “Rose’s Turn”
  5. Neil Patrick Harris The Last Man in My Life
  6. Cecil Adams - “It Ain’t Necessarily So”
  7. Barack Obama - “Take this Job and Shove It”
  8. Donald Trump - You’re So Vain Carly Simon - You're So Vain - YouTube
  9. Johnny Depp- Hit the Road Jack
  10. Bernie Sanders - Don’t Stop believin’
  11. Sarah Palin - “Barracuda”
  12. Bill Clinton – Toby Kieth’s “That’s my house & that’s my car
    That’s my dog in my back yard”
  13. Jeb Bush (and other disappointed candidates): Send in the Clowns Judy Collins - Send In The Clowns - YouTube
    Because it’s Memorial Day, a great veteran, famous or not
  14. Louis Zamperini

His story is told in Unbroken, a fine book by Laura Hillenbrand. The book was made into a film which according to reviews was just so-so.

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Because it’s Memorial Day, a great veteran, famous or not

  1. Louis Zamperini
  2. Simo “Simuna” Häyhä

Perhaps the world’s greatest sniper, with 505 confirmed kills during the Finland/USSR Winter War.

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Because it’s Memorial Day, a great veteran, famous or not

  1. Louis Zamperini
  2. Simo “Simuna” Häyhä
  3. Henry Johnson

The most distinguished of the “Harlem Hellfighters,” the 369th, an all-black regiment under the command of mostly white officers. On watch in the Argonne Forest on May 14, 1918, Johnson fought off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while experiencing 21 wounds. For this feat he was awarded the French Croix de Guerre in the same year. US military recognition came much later: he was awarded the Purple Heart in 1996, the Distinguished Service Medal in 2003 and the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2015.

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Because it’s Memorial Day, a great veteran, famous or not

  1. Louis Zamperini
  2. Simo “Simuna” Häyhä
  3. Henry Johnson
  4. My Dad
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Because it’s Memorial Day, a great veteran, famous or not

  1. Louis Zamperini
  2. Simo “Simuna” Häyhä
  3. Henry Johnson
  4. My Dad
  5. Esteban Braulio

My patriotic Nicaraguan friend, who fought bravely for his country against the foreign-sponsored Contras.

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Because it’s Memorial Day, a great veteran, famous or not

  1. Louis Zamperini
  2. Simo “Simuna” Häyhä
  3. Henry Johnson
  4. My Dad
  5. Esteban Braulio
  6. Desmond Doss

When his company assaulted an enemy position on an escarpment in Okinawa they took heavy fire. Doss stayed in the line of fire, carried each of the 75 wounded to the edge of the cliff, and lowered them in a litter down a rope to safety. In the following week he advanced under fire to positions within 25 feet of the enemy to tend to wounded soldiers and pulling seven of them to safety in three separate incidents.

Two weeks later he was wounded while attending to a soldier, dressed his own wounds, and waited five hours until he could be extracted by a litter bearer. Seeing a more gravely wounded soldier he crawled off the litter and instructed the litter bearers to tend to the other man. Doss got shot again for his troubles.

And Doss did it all without bearing weapons - except to bind a rifle stock to his own broken arm. He was a Conscientious Objector. And was awarded a Medal of Honor for his actions.

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Because it’s Memorial Day, a great veteran, famous or not

  1. Louis Zamperini
  2. Simo “Simuna” Häyhä
  3. Henry Johnson
  4. My Dad
  5. Esteban Braulio
  6. Desmond Doss
  7. the Marquis de Lafayette
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Because it’s Memorial Day, a great veteran, famous or not

  1. Louis Zamperini
  2. Simo “Simuna” Häyhä
  3. Henry Johnson
  4. My Dad
  5. Esteban Braulio
  6. Desmond Doss
  7. the Marquis de Lafayette
  8. Edwin Hubble
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]Because it’s Memorial Day, a great veteran, famous or not

  1. Louis Zamperini
  2. Simo “Simuna” Häyhä
  3. Henry Johnson
  4. My Dad
  5. Esteban Braulio
  6. Desmond Doss
  7. the Marquis de Lafayette
  8. Edwin Hubble
  9. Audie Murphy
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Because it’s Memorial Day, a great veteran, famous or not

  1. Louis Zamperini
  2. Simo “Simuna” Häyhä
  3. Henry Johnson
  4. My Dad
  5. Esteban Braulio
  6. Desmond Doss
  7. the Marquis de Lafayette
  8. Edwin Hubble
  9. Audie Murphy
  10. John McCrae

Canadian physician and officer, died near the end of World War One, best known for writing the poem “In Flanders Fields”, which (among other things) inspired the remembrance poppy.

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Because it’s Memorial Day, a great veteran, famous or not

  1. Louis Zamperini
  2. Simo “Simuna” Häyhä
  3. Henry Johnson
  4. My Dad
  5. Esteban Braulio
  6. Desmond Doss
  7. the Marquis de Lafayette
  8. Edwin Hubble
  9. Audie Murphy
  10. John McCrae
  11. George H. Thomas

A Civil War hero of mine. The bicentennial of his birth will be in July: George Henry Thomas - Wikipedia