Leatherneck McMahon Dies at 86
23rd June 2009
None of the Coastal Elite care (or, if they do, they’d rather forget) that Ed McMahon was a Marine.
McMahon wanted to be a Marine fighter pilot during World War II. Because it required two years of college, he enrolled at Boston College — until the Navy dropped the school requirement and McMahon dropped school to enlist.
The Marines care — and remember.