Celebrities That Served In the Military Before Hollywood Fame

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The prolific writer behind The Great Gatsby didn't spend his whole life as a novelist. He had started his career as a second lieutenant in the U.S Army, dropping out of college in order to enlist.  He was worried that he wouldn't be able to fulfill his literary dreams before dying at war, so he quickly The Romantic Egotist only weeks before reporting for duty, but the work was rejected from publishers. 

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