We American warriors lost a Beloved American Icon Fess Parker : Who was as tradtional as the two legends he protrayed: Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone — Passed Away March 18, 2010. While the Real Davy Crockett was born August 17th 1786,Fess Parker was born August 16, 1924 in Fort Worth, Texas, He grew up on a farm near San Angelo and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in the latter part of World War II. Hoping to become a pilot, he was turned down because he was 6 feet 6 inches . He then tried to become a radioman gunner, but he was found too big to fit comfortably into the rear cockpit. He was finally transfered to the Marine Corps as a radio operator and shipped out for the South Pacific and saw combat in the Phillipines shortly beforethe atom bomb ended the war. After the war, Parker graduated from the University of Texas in 1950 with a degree in history, for his stalwart academics he was initiated into Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. With one year remaining on his GI Bill, he studied drama at the University of Southern California, working towards a master’s degree in theater history… before turming professional actor. If your over 45, American and don’t remember what Parker did with Walt Disney TV and movies to raise the principaled folk legend of Davy Crockett( and billion dollar coonskin cap craze )– you must have been part of an alien abduction. 
He later portrayed Daniel Boone on TV, before by the 1970s , migrated from acting, producing, directing into business..Real Estate and Wine business. with a long eduring yet transient and very icongraphic fame, he had with crockett and Boone leaving liberal Hollywood; co mingling mimicking and personifying his modern life with the spirti of the frontiersmen he chracterized. by becoming very succesful. Like Crockett his,Folk hero satus might have been temprarily forgotten but never wained as anyone who would meet him at his winery could testify to. In 1948 Walt Disney told then famed Hollywood columinist Hedda Hopper that it was: ” Time to get acquainted or renew acquaintence with, the robust, cheerful, energetic and representative folk heroes.” Disney put Parker in the coonskin cap ; and Parker’s Crockett helped boys growing into men elevate our image of what an American Man should be. “In the days before Bart Simpson became a reverse role model, Davy held that you always said what you meant, meant what you said and went down swinging for what you believed in. Twenty-first century corner-cutting deal-making was not actually an option” ~ Andrew Malcom 
“Take off those black armbands, kids, “and put on your coonskin caps, for Davy Crockett will hit the trail again.” ~ the gossip columnist Hedda Hopper on Fess Parker Davy Crockett Irreardless of how accuratea historical portrayal Parkers- Crockett was; a fad was created based on a set of values and principals and among other things influenced a generation of U.S. Warriors by Parkers depiction of Crockett. Years later, Mr. Parker said, Vietnam veterans told him that watching his Crockett deal with fear when they were young had influenced their conduct in battle. Perhaps after a years worth of “Obi wan- Ko-Kool-aid-bama”, Hollywood could find the likes of a New Heda Hopper to help the half of our country ( wearing whatever metaphorical todays Black Arm bands are today…liberalism?? ) and put on a new coonskin cap once agian to take back our country’s values, remain fearless under fire, and live a life of honor like the Fess Parkers( and Hedda Hoppers real life son William — Bill Hopper an actor who played 1950′s TV Perry Mason investigator Paul – who in his pre acting life like Parker, was a World War II OSS Operational Swimmer Group amphibious swimmer-comanndo-frogman and Navy UDT man.) Fess Parker himself might muse , heaven knows we sure need more like he and Bill in todays pop culture. Here’s to you Fess Parker:(Crockett) Thank you for imparting a manner and heroicism our detractors can’t stand– it keeps ‘em on there 
toes…and may God and his son, grant you and your family eternal salvation and remembrence by our nation and those young and yet to learn of you. You were truly what no surrender is all about. Let us hope you and Davy Crockett’s spirit in the after life, will join forces and will continue to inspire brazen patriotic acts of mythical proportions! Rest Well Fess!
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