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To: Tommaso who wrote (233951)4/7/2003 10:17:42 AM
From: Win-Lose-Draw  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
hmmm...

it was a long walk in a sad rain
and nobody tried to be John Wayne
i came home, Tex did not
and i can't talk about the hit he got...



To: Tommaso who wrote (233951)4/7/2003 10:32:09 AM
From: Knighty Tin  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
T, In all honesty, I don't think Wayne was a coward. When asked why he didn't serve, he gave a legitimate answer: too young for WWI and too old for WWII.

Still, it is amazing that so many people consider him a war hero. He was a good propagandist. My favorite movie of his is the one where he backs McCarthyism to the hilt. Well, that and "The Mongol." I suppose they didn't have casting directors back in those days. <g>



To: Tommaso who wrote (233951)4/7/2003 12:26:38 PM
From: Mike M2  Respond to of 436258
 
T, I didn't now that about JW. Hollywood made Audie Murphy a war movie star. Murphy was the most decorated vet of WWII and a Congressional Medal of Honor recepient. The marines rejected him because he was small but the army took him. Mike