Ever wonder why GHW Bush never had a movie made of his WWII heroics?

Kind of tongue in cheek because I already know, but after watching PT109 tonight I started looking up tidbits about JFK’s actual service record compared to the Hollywood account, remarking to myself how unbelievably embellished it seemed as I watched the movie, and I wasn’t wrong. I don’t know why I never put this together before as many time I’d seen the movie, but Hollywood released that movie in June of 63, some 5 months before he was killed, which kind of took me aback that they would make a heroic movie like that of a sitting president, which seems a bit much to me, but whatever. He was their boy.

In any case, it got me to looking into GHW Bush’s service to re-familiarize myself with it, as it’s been a while, and it sure seems like it would make for a really good Hollywood movie, if only he was a Democrat of course.

Shot down twice, recipient of 3 medals, one of which was the distinguished flying cross for dive bombing a Japanese communications outpost after already being hit and eventually bailing out, almost captured by the Japanese, and finally rescued by a submarine where he spent the next 30 days at see working as a spotter, as well as being the recipient of depth charges, and bombs during that time on the submarine. He flew some 58 attack missions and at the time he received his wings, was the youngest pilot in the navy.

Sounds like an even better flick without the need for embellishment. It stands on its own in my estimation. What say you? Would that be a movie you’s pay to see?