[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.

[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.

[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?

[ezo4]

as far as Im concerned he did.