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Former
U.S. Air Force sergeant
Adrian
Cronauer co-authored the original story for the major motion
picture, Good Morning,
Vietnam
! In that
film, Cronauer was portrayed—loosely—by Robin
Williams whose performance was nominated for an Academy
Award. A subsequent special program on National Public Radio
about the role of military radio in
Vietnam
earned Cronauer a 1992 Ohio State Award and two 1991 Gold
Medals from the New York Radio Festival.
Cronauer
is a national director of the Citizen's Flag Alliance, a
coalition of approximately 120 groups united to pass a
Constitutional amendment protecting the American flag from
being physically desecrated.
He is a life member of the American Legion, Vietnam
Veterans of America, AmVets, the VFW and ViétNow. He serves
as a national officer of the Knights Templar, is an honorary
Kentucky Colonel, and a member of the Australian Returned
& Services League. Recently, he was awarded the Order of
St. Maurice by the U.S. Infantry Reserve.
He spends much of his spare time speaking throughout
the country before veterans and military groups espousing
patriotism and flag protection.
A
popular after-dinner speaker and lecturer, Cronauer
periodically appears as a guest on radio and television talk
shows, including NBC-TV's Today; the PBS series, Freedom
Speaks; Hennity & Colmes on the Fox News
Channel, and frequent appearances on ABC-TV's former late
night talk show, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher;
also, numerous stints on NBC Radio's Jim Bohanan Show; and
the Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy radio programs. His
commentaries have been featured in many major newspapers
throughout the country and on the NPR Radio Network.
Mr.
Cronauer is Special Assistant to the Director of the Defense
POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) where he serves as a
confidential advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense (DASD).
He
received his Doctor of Law degree from the
University
of
Pennsylvania
, where he was Special Projects Editor of the
Univ.
of
PA.
Law Review. He also holds a masters degree in Media Studies
from the
New
School
for Social Research in
New York City
; his undergraduate studies were at the
University
of
Pittsburgh
and the
American
University
in
Washington
DC
. He clerked at the Federal Communications Commission
for Commissioner Patricia Diaz Dennis and was honored with
the FCC's Special Service Award.
He
has was as a member of the Virginia Public Broadcasting
Board, the
Arlington
County
(
Virginia
) Cable TV Advisory Committee, and the Board of Governors of
the
New
School
for Social Research in
New York City
. He served two
terms as a trustee of the Virginia War Memorial and is a
former member of the national board of the Armed Forces
Broadcasters Association and the board of the National
Vietnam & Gulf War Veterans Coalition.
He
and his wife, the former Jeane Steppe, have two adult
children and five grandchildren ranging in age from nineteen
to twenty-two.
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