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On Monday you might have donned green in honor of St. Patrick’s Day–or perhaps just to avoid getting pinched. So tomorrow, why not consider adding a sweater to your assemble in honor of a man who was welcomed into homes nationwide singing, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor”?
The folks in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, back in Pittsburgh, are celebrating what would have been Fred Rogers’ 80th birthday Thursday. They’re asking that “everyone, everywhere - from Pittsburgh to Paris” wear their favorite sweater that day.
I’m in. Now who’s with me?
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Gloomy conservatives
You Betcha! Except it is not exactly sweater weather here in So Cal.
I’m in. That’s incredibly sweet.
I did learn alot about how to treat others from Mr. Rogers.
confession: I read that to a friend and we both had tears in our eyes afterward… but I didn’t really rest last night.
Drat, I don’t have a red sweater or any type of cardigan.
But I will be sure to change in to my sneakers upon entering my house.
Llamas don’t have sweaters and I’m not going to dye myself red to remember a ….errrrr….weak wristed woosie man but, if I lisp a little when I spit and promise not stomp little kids to death, will that count?
I can see where ladies, who want their ….errrrr… men to be terribly sensitive, metro sexual types might want to wear a red sweater though. The finest sweaters for humans are made from Llama wool by the way.
(#4) “weak wristed woosie man”
llama, for your information he was not a ‘woosie man’ he was a Navy SEAL and always wore a sweater so kids wouldn’t see his tatoos
If you don’t believe me you can google it.
He was confident enough in his masculinity (Navy SEAL) to be able to reach out to the little ones and not respond to all the attackers. “It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” is still our theme song and all of our foster children over the years have learned to sing it and begin to appreciate the sentiment that every day is a gift and every person is a gift. I will be wearing my sweater (and it is cool enough here for one).
Mr. Rogers was a SEAL? Didn’t know that!
Actually (no offense), it seems that the story about Mr. Rogers being a SEAL (some versions have him being a Marine sniper instead) is an urban legend/hoax. See this link: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fredrogers/a/mr_rogers.htm
Really? I remember reading a big article in some big newspaper about him when he died or shorly before and it included that portion. Goes to show you can’t believe everything you read.
But he did not need that to show that he cared deeply for the little ones. He was concerned about how the world was not letting them be children…oh, there I go again. I did not know him personally and am only going on what I have read. Let’s just leave it at: he seemed to me to be a nice guy who cared about kids and I got really tired of people saying he was something else without proof so I will try to be more careful about what I believe in the future. TJ, you have just made me a cynic. Not really, I have always been one.
I made you a cynic, Mumsee??? Sorry about that! If I were cynical, I could have just said his “less-than-masculine” mannerisms were due the fact that he attended Pittsburgh Seminary, but I won’t go there…
Here’s a Snopes article on the same thing, along with some other (bizarre) rumors about Mr. Rogers: http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mrrogers.asp
I’m astonished and impressed, my aspiring-to-be-a-seal son is not going to believe it!
*SEAL
STOP THE RUMOR!
Not so sure it’s a rumor.
EYG,
What’s to be unsure about? The two links TJ posted above are from very reputable sources, one of which does nothing but ferret out the truth about such claims.
One of the “rumors” had Rogers being a Marine sniper in Vietnam. He would have been too old at the time for that to have been true. Also, there are no “gaps” in his academic career: he went from high school to college to career. He later returned to school (seminary), but there is nothing in his bio to suggest that he ever even had the time to enter the military in any capacity, at least in what I’ve seen. Everything seems to have originated with an email hoax a few years back.
I’m taking off my shoes now and pulling out my red sweater. We loved Mr. Rogers.
I’ll wear my magenta sweater.
Mr. Rogers was just right for young children. And some of the quips his characters would make in the Neighborhood of Make Believe could make adults chuckle.
I liked his segments on how things are made.