{"id":92763,"date":"2019-11-19T11:50:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92763"},"modified":"2019-11-19T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T19:34:14","slug":"mr-rodgers-and-the-sniper-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92763","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Rodgers and the Sniper Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mister-Rogers-Sniper-Navy-SEAL-620x400.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-92764\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mister-Rogers-Sniper-Navy-SEAL-620x400.jpg?resize=500%2C323&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mister-Rogers-Sniper-Navy-SEAL-620x400.jpg?resize=500%2C323&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mister-Rogers-Sniper-Navy-SEAL-620x400.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mister-Rogers-Sniper-Navy-SEAL-620x400.jpg?resize=620%2C400&amp;ssl=1 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/archives\/news\/mister-rogers-sniper-navy-seals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MovieMaker.com published an article<\/a> explaining how the &#8220;sniper story&#8221; started on Fred Rodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers is the subject of a movie staring Tom Hanks and the screenwriters of <em>A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood<\/em> nailed down where the story started.<\/p>\n<p>The rumor that Rogers was <del>not<\/del> a sniper was proven false when someone saw him naked.\u00a0 Yes, that&#8217;s right, when they saw him naked.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You may wonder what nudity has to do with being a sniper. As Junod explains, the \u201cMister Rogers was a sniper\u201d urban myth was predicated on the idea that Rogers always wore long-sleeve sweaters to conceal tattoos that tallied his many kills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, how did the rumor that he was a sniper get started?\u00a0 Screenwriters Harpster and Fitzerman-Blue explained&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Harpster revealed that in a decade of research on Rogers, he and Fitzerman-Blue learned the source of the urban myth. It turns out there was <em>another<\/em> Fred Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo there was actually a guy named Fred Rogers, who was a marine, who was a sharpshooter, who started a security business. And he for a moment put up FredRogers.com as his business,\u201d Harpster said. \u201cAnd it was almost immediately taken down. But people found that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at MovieMaker.com published an article explaining how the &#8220;sniper story&#8221; started on Fred Rodgers. Rogers is the subject of a movie staring Tom Hanks and the screenwriters of A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood nailed down where the story started. The rumor that Rogers was not a sniper was proven false when someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":92764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mister-Rogers-Sniper-Navy-SEAL-620x400.jpg?fit=620%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-o8b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}