Celebrities That Served in the Military Before Their Big Break

Ernest Hemmingway

Though he wanted to enlist in World War I, Hemmingway’s vision was too terrible. He instead volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross.

A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
Both volleyball and basketball were invented in Massachusetts.
The 442nd Infantry Regiment, a largely Japanese American unit that served during WWII, did so while their families were held in internment camps. Their motto was "Go for Broke" and they were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
Mount Rushmore cost less than $1 million.