SIAP - Is this really Mel Gibson?
https://www.tiktok.com/@avranch1/video/6983715318912929030
Wondered why he’d salute. Didn’t even know he was a NYer, always thought he was an Aussie. His fam didn’t move to AU until he was 12.
His dad did serve , however, and was a very smart, and interesting guy, to say the least: Hutton Gibson 1918-2020 Copypasta from Wikipedia:
Hutton Peter Gibson (August 26, 1918 – May 11, 2020) was an American writer on sedevacantism, a World War II veteran, the 1968 Jeopardy! grand champion and the father of 11 children, one of whom is the actor and director Mel Gibson.[1]
Gibson was an outspoken critic both of the post-Vatican II Roman Catholic Church and of those Traditionalist Catholics who reject sedevacantism, such as the Society of Saint Pius X. In a 2003 interview he engaged in Holocaust denial, wondering how the Nazis could have disposed of six million bodies during the Holocaust and claimed that the September 11, 2001 attacks were perpetrated by remote control.
After serving with the United States Marine Corps at the Battle of Guadalcanal, Gibson married Irish-born Anne Patricia Reilly on May 1, 1944, at the Catholic parish church of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Brooklyn, New York…
In 1968, Gibson appeared on the Art Fleming-hosted version of the game show Jeopardy! as "Red Gibson, a railroad brakeman from South Ozone Park, New York". Gibson won $4,680 and retired undefeated after five shows, in accordance with the rules of the show then in force. He was invited back to appear in the 1968 Tournament of Champions, where he became the year's grand champion,[17] winning slightly over one thousand dollars more, as well as a two-person cruise to the West Indies
Hutton Gibson's views on how the Church is corrupted and why the Pope is not the true pope.
• Is the Pope Catholic?: Paul VI's Legacy: Catholicism? (1978)
• Time Out of Mind (1983)
• The Enemy is Here! (1994)
• The Enemy is Still Here! (2003)