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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (233955)	4/7/2003 10:22:33 AM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 436258

Found the account: There are those who naively defend brutality in sports by reference to the awful demands of combat.William Manchester, distinguished author and a Marine veteran of the bloody fighting on Okinawa,wrote once about a visit by John Wayne to the paraplegic ward of a military hospital near the end of World War II. Those men had seen earlier Wayne movies like the later Sands of Iwo Jima (1950), as big a piece of bullshit bravado as ever wasted celluloid. Those terribly wounded men booed andcatcalled and Bronx-cheered Wayne until he felt it necessary to leave without uttering a word. If Wayne had indeed wanted to bare the breast of his personal bravery, he could have enlisted in WorldWar II (as did many other stars, like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, and Jack Lemmon,to name four).

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (233955)	4/7/2003 10:28:37 AM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 436258

And now a more direct quote. Nothing against the marines--only a dislike of celluloid phonies. Though to tell the truth I enjoy watching John Wayne films because they are as close to reality at Bugs Bunny cartoons. “After my evacuation from Okinawa, I had the enormous pleasure of seeing [John] Wayne humiliated in person at Aiea Heights Naval Hospital in Hawaii. Only the most gravely wounded, the litter cases, were sent there.... Each evening Navy corpsmen would carry litters down to the hospital theater so the men could watch a movie. One night they had a surprise for us. Before the film the curtains parted and out stepped John Wayne, wearing a cowboy outfit—and 10-gallon hat, bandanna, checkered shirt, two pistols, chaps, boots and spurs. He grinned his aw-shucks grin, passed a hand over his face and said, ‘Hi ya, guys!' He was greeted by a stony silence. Then somebody booed. Suddenly everyone was booing. “This man was a symbol of the fake machismo we had come to hate, and we weren't going to listen to him. He tried and tried to make himself heard, but we drowned him out, and eventually he quit and left.” —Historian William Manchester in the New York Times Magazine, June 14, 1987