John Wayne (1907-1979) LETS TEACH AMERICAN KIDS THESE QUALITIES

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[ATOMIC_PUNK]

If we could just teach our kids these few virtues for life and country what a better America we could have.

I am trult moved and awed at the inspiration this man gave to people even to this day

Thank you Mr.Wayne for being such a great patriot of your time and for inspiring greatness in all who have read your words.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[dts32041]

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose.

Some words give you a feeling. Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat.

The same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step, or his first baby shaves, and makes his first sound like a man.

Some words can give you a feeling that make your heart warm. Republic is one of those words.

John Wayne the Alamo, not to be confused with 13 days of glory

[mdittmar]

Listen to the Duke here.

[gabby hayes]

Too bad he didn't walk the walk in WW11. Another case of the celluloid confusing itself with reality.

[dts32041]

He tried to, was told he wasto important to war effort, to be risked as an Infantry Man.

He was to old to many kids, and counselled by the John ford not to.

[nightdriver]

"Too bad he didn't walk the walk in WW11. Another case of the celluloid confusing itself with reality."

Unfortunately true.

He seemed to calm down and change a lot after his first bout with cancer.

[SAMWolf]

When war broke out, John Wayne tried to enlist but was rejected because of an old football injury to his shoulder, his age (34), and his status as a married father of four. He flew to Washington to plead that he be allowed to join the Navy but was turned down. So he poured himself into the war effort by making inspirational war films - among them The Fighting Seabees, Back to Bataan and They Were Expendable. To those back home and others around the world he became a symbol of the determined American fighting man.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of it continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”

Theodore Roosevelt October 12, 1915

[TheBattman]

I don't know how long I can host this file on my personal web space with my ISP before they shut it down for too much bandwith usage, but here is John Wayne himself reading They Hyphen:

http://home.centurytel.net/TheBattman/images/TheHyphen.mp3

[RLK]

Too bad he didn't walk the walk in WW11. Another case of the celluloid confusing itself with reality.

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Wayne was 4F. He had been injured, which was the reason he lost his football scholership.

[glasseye]

Republic, republic, I like that sound, you may be living, but if you dont believe in the republic, you are just as dead as a beaver hat.--John Wayne

I still miss JW...

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

I still miss JW...

You and me both glass how ya been ? havent seen you for a long time been great i hope.

[gg188]

Wayne hit age 35 before the war was six months old. My dad was 27 and considered comparatively old when he entered the army that year. Would 35 have been considered a bit long in tooth?

[FirstTomato]

Its so tragic, to compare John Wayne, begging to be of service to his country with the likes of Alec Baldwin, badmouthing his country and his President. Both actors, both times of war. Two different reactions. One representing the best in human nature; one representing the lowest level to which man can sink.

*sigh*

[SAMWolf]

It was a different Hollywood, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart served in the Army Air Corps.

[Beck_isright]

Personal bump and bookmark

[itsLUCKY2B]

John Wayne AMERICAN... that says it all.

[Tall_Texan]

Pretty tough talk coming from an actor named Marion Morrison...

[Balata]

Here's to you Pilgrim.