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...change" that so many want to see with his incoming Administration. Backed by MySpace and Kutcher's production company Katalyst Media and directed by Moore, The Presidential Pledge features a bevy of instantly recognizable faces (Moore, Kutcher, Cameron Diaz, Sean "Diddy" Combs), some you-look-familiar faces (Joel Schumacher, Kenna, Bryce Dallas Howard) and some, well, pretty forgettable faces (Kevin Zegers, Brittany Snow, Matt Dallas). And while we're on the topic of star-studded, Obama-themed viral videos, this latest one sports a serious lack of Jonah Hill...
Though that day in the jungle was more than 60 years ago, people still ask Ted Kenna why he did what he did. Why, with Japanese machine guns pinning down his company from less than 50 m away, did he decide to stand up and fire back, killing the enemy crew even as their bullets passed between his arms and body? And the 86-year-old is still surprised people wonder at what is so clear to him: "I found myself there, and to see, I had to get up - and to get up, I had to show myself...
...that year the former plumber's apprentice was told he'd been awarded the Victoria Cross for "the highest degree of bravery." By then he was in a Melbourne hospital, slowly recovering from terrible injuries and malaria. Just three weeks after his actions at Wewak with the 2/4th Battalion, Kenna was shot in the face and recalls hearing a priest at the field hospital being told he'd probably die. "I thought, Pigs," he says. Even as the last rites were administered, he remembers telling himself through the pain, "This is not going to happen." He would be given...
...through that Japan had surrendered. His sweetheart Marjorie Rushberry, the dark-haired nurse who had looked after him, went into town with girlfriends to celebrate. "But all the soldiers were going mad, grabbing girls and kissing them, so we decided to hotfoot it back to hospital," she says. The Kennas have been married for 58 years, and still live in the red-roofed house that locals in Kenna's home town of Hamilton, in Victoria's western wool district, built for them when he returned in 1946. The pale gums and sheep fields were just the same...
...company met up with another section nearby. "Someone, I think it was Snowy, said to me, 'Did you do that?' and I said yeah, and he said, 'Good shooting.' And that was it - what else was there to say?" Though he says his greatest achievement was marrying Marjorie, Kenna has always felt the special duty of being a VC winner. Long after the war, his captain, "Blah" Smith ("He was always talking, giving orders, blah, blah, blah"), told Kenna, "it takes a lot to win a VC, but it takes a lot more to wear it the way you have...