George Farris
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Military |
| Occupation | Retired |
| Location | Washington, DC, United States |
| Introduction | Patriotic, family oriented, well-read, well-traveled, and well-educated. However, I consider myself an old soldier rather than an intellectual. |
| Interests | Archaeology, Early Christian History, Macintosh personal computing, Scouting, Knights of Columbus, genealogy, reading, scuba diving, travel, and cinema. |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, The Third Man, Dr. Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather Epic, The Bridge On The River Kwai, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The African Queen, The Cowboys, The Shootist, Annie Hall, The Best Years of Our Lives, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Ben Hur, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, Moon Over Parador, When Harry Met Sally, It Happened One Night, Platoon, The Searchers, Branagh's Henry V, Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet, Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, The World of Suzie Wong, and Lancelot du Lac. |
| Favorite music | Cole Porter, Glen Miller, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Nora Jones, Rod Stewart, and Ravel |
| Favorite books | "The Jerusalem Bible", Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", "Innocents Abroad:, Ernest Hemmingway's "The Sun Also Rises", "Across the River and Into the Trees", "The Garden of Eden", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "A Farewell to Arms", "A Moveable Feast", The Nick Adams Stories, Michael Shaara's "The Killer Angels", Patrick Reid's "The Colditz Story", Anton Myer's "Once An Eagle", W.E.B. Griffin's "The Brotherhood of War" series, John le Carre's "The Honourable Schoolboy", Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", Boris Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago", James Webb's "Field's of Fire", and "The Emperor's General". |