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Posted by: Kevin | 1/1/03
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Replies: 19 comments
Hi Brian,
Your entitled to your opinion. And if you "choose" to believe straightdope.com then that's your business. Not every source is correct. Sorry you feel it's your duty to tear at JW's integrity.
But to each his own.
Posted by Kevin @ 06/01/2004 10:26 PM EDT
As for the "all wet" go to "straightdope.com" Cecil Adams reports the facts. John Wayne had his 2-A revoked by the draft board and was reclassifed 1-A. He used the pull of Hollywood to get back to a 2-A status. His career was stable and he had no excuse except wanting his family to enjoy the good life as the family of a actor. Jimmy Steward, Clark Gable and other actors actively served. John Wayne being portrayed as a REAL hero is insulting to those of us who served (3ACR). It's like the people who think Sylvester Stalone is a real soldier and Chuck Norris was a fake soldier. It's Hollywood guys. Wayne went for the money not the duty.
Posted by Brian @ 06/01/2004 01:04 PM EDT
Hmm...Denise,
Please do a search at our message forum at http://dukewayne.com for your answer. In fact here's a direct link to a discussion about the subject http://www.dukewayne.com/index.php?showtopic=117&st=0.
Hopefully it'll be helpful to ya!
Posted by Kevin @ 04/23/2004 02:23 PM EDT
Hmm, my father actually served in WW2. He was on the second wave on Omaha Beach. Now why didn't John Wayne serve his country? Hmm.. As far as I am concerned, it is people like my Dad that were the heroes, and people like John Wayne nothing more than "war wimps." Of course, I guess making all those war movies was pretty dangerous for John Wayne!!! God, the man was such a joke.
Posted by Denise @ 04/23/2004 01:55 PM EDT
Hi Kevin,
I did read all the entries, on why "I'm all wet" concerning Waynes 'Draft Dodger status". My dad was about the same age as Wayne, 2 children, 1 rib and 1/2 a lung missing (from a minor league baseball career fast ball injury)and he enlisted as soon as the war started. He served 2 years in the South Pacific. They didn't take him right away due to his age.
All my uncles served with honor, some relatives died, others came home and resumed their lives without whining. I joined the Army 101st Airborne at 17 yrs old and earned the wings that Wayne fraudulently wore in green berets.
Ronald Reagan enlisted and (made movies), Lee Marvin was a combat marine, Clark Gable served etc. Face it: Waynes career was more important than his country.
Another 'brilliant comment' was :
'What difference did it make if one more man served', Using that logic- 'What difference did it make if anyone served'. We'd all be speaking German or Japanese now and I'm sure Wayne would have made the transition with little effort.
He wrapped himself in the Flag and like many of the forum writers was quick to label anyone they disagree with "A Commie". I'm guessing a lot of them learned the "Draft Dodger Rag" from wayne. They seem more concerned with expounding weak "He couldn't because......blah, blah blah excuses"; their "Don't mess with my hero" routine than with truth.
Sinatra, Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum et. al., may have been Dodgers too but they weren't playing the hero role to the degree Wayne was. I guess when you don't have the balls you've got to use bluster and at that Wayne deserved an Academy Award.
Posted by Pat Farrand @ 04/11/2004 09:33 PM EDT
Hi Pat,
First off thanks for coming to the site. Second your "DRAFT DODGER" claim is all wet and is untrue! Go to the message forum ( http://www.dukewayne.com )and do a search. You'll find the subject discussed at length.
And thanks for serving your country.
Posted by Kevin @ 03/27/2004 04:17 AM EDT
For all the flag waving John Wayne fans: HE WAS A DRAFT DODGER! He made movies while GOOD men died. He's gum on my shoe. I'm a 101st Airborne Div. vet
Posted by Pat Farrand @ 03/26/2004 09:19 PM EDT
This is for emily camble. john wayne died June 11at 5:23pm 1979
if you are on he i would like to here from anyone really cause i am 13 years old and its har to find someone that likes john wayne these days my emial adress is charlescurtissandes@yahoo.com
thank you for your time and i willl hope to here from you
Posted by charles sanders @ 03/04/2004 05:56 PM EDT
I have a John Wayne hat and am told it is authentic. How can I find out how much its worth if anything.
Posted by Bonnie @ 12/04/2003 09:42 AM EDT
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Posted by JUAN CARLOS DE LA TORRE @ 11/28/2003 09:41 AM EDT
I am looking for the year and date that John Wayne Passed away.
Please send it to me as soon as possible.
Thank you,
Emily Campbell
Posted by Emily Campbell @ 09/26/2003 03:07 PM EDT
After hearing about the Roy Rogers museum moving to Branson, Missouri from Victorville, California, I thought, "What a stroke of genius." From all reports, I hear it's doing quite well ("packed" is what one friend said about the place). As a true died-in-the-wool John Wayne fan, I'm thinking to myself, "Gene Autry has a museum, Roy Rogers has a museum, where's John Wayne's museum?"
I think a John Wayne museum in Branson, Missouri would also be a stroke of genius. The fans of America need it, and want it!
Posted by Chester Berlow @ 07/20/2003 02:27 AM EDT
I would love a dvd of "HIGH AND THE MIGHTY" and "HONDO"! We need to start a petition, I think. So sad to hear of Michael Wayne's passing.
Posted by adobbs @ 07/19/2003 06:36 AM EDT
John Waynes's College Football
The Game Ball
Hello,
33 years ago a friend of my family gave me this Football that was
given to this person by "The Duke" himself and they told me the story.
Since my family has always worked in the studios this was not strange,
I even helped build Micheal Wayne a dune buggy. This football was he's
last game, The Game Ball! Before doing movies. It has imprinted on
"THE DUKE" and he's signature still can be seen, but very slightly. I
was younger and threw it around in the front yard but it is not worn
out. It looks it's age. Just wondering if it could be worth anything.
Thank you for your time.
RW-
Posted by RW- @ 05/13/2003 12:09 AM EDT
I'M A EX-ARMY SGT. AND I LIKED ALL OF HIS MOVIES ESPCIALLY THE MILITARY MOVIES. I MISS HIM...I JUST MISS HIM SO MUCH...SOMETIMES WHEN I'M SAD, I JUST TALK TO HIM FOR COMFORT. OR PUT ON A MOVIE OF THE DUKE'S(ANY MOVIE) AND I FEEL BETTER. GOD BLESS THE WAYNE FAMILY AT THEIR HOUR OF GRIEF(MICHAEL'S DEATH) AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Posted by PATTIE HOCH @ 04/04/2003 05:30 AM EDT
the DUKE FINE ACTOR-AMERICA'S SYMBOL OF A MOVIE HERO-BEST QUEIT MAN.NEXT A FEW OTHERS STAGECOACH,THE SHOOTIST.
Posted by joseph gilbert thompson @ 03/17/2003 09:04 AM EDT
i am looking for a downloaded copy of john waynes speech in the movie the alamo,, where he talks about the republic.thanks for any help.
Posted by chuck @ 03/14/2003 09:58 PM EDT
I want to own a copy of The High & The Mighty. How can we get someone to make it on DVD?
Posted by Beverley @ 02/13/2003 09:09 PM EDT
Hi there... I am looking for the John Wayne hat which he wore in the Searchers.... just a replica.... any know where I can get one?
Posted by randal @ 01/06/2003 02:39 PM EDT
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