John Wayne, great American hero. what things he would say about what the liberals are turning this country into. John Wayne would kick Obama out of this sacred land
I'm a Democrat who served in Vietnam along with my brother who was killed in the line of duty, your so called Hollywood hero dressed in a Hollywood costume owned by MGM was a known war mongering draft dodger. Every phony piece of patriotism he spewed was from one of his writers. He promoted and backed the tobacco lobby through commercials and the use of their products, we all know how that turned out! Get a grip conservative sockpuppets and follow a real hero!
@Mrphatbastard1 By 1943, with officer’s slots all filled, the only way Wayne could have gone into the service was as an army private; he had waited too long. Years later Wayne told Dan Ford that as a private, “I felt it would be a waste of time to spend two years picking up cigarette butts. I thought I could do more for the war effort by staying in Hollywood.” Most stars in the service found they were relegated to public relations duties out of harm’s way strictly for morale reasons.
@Coolmans24 I believe that's right. He didn't sign up because he had four children to support. How could he feed four kids back then on the wages of a Private? I would have made the same decision as him.
@SSRogue88 Exactly, how could he or anyone for that matter be expected to ruin his career to be some buck private? He made the right choice, the choice anyone in there right mind would have made.
@Coolmans24 I read in a biography that he had signed a new contract a film company and was threatened with law suit if he enlisted. To famous for the military to use him as anything but USO postings. Several well known actors enlisted, but were eventually discharged. Gov. was afraid of negative propaganda. Clark Gable discharged, Glen Miller lost in airplane crash, body never found. As a private, he would have been to much of a problem. Remember the boxer that enlisted in the Marines.
@gdawsey glenn miller died in a bordello in france,,,,,,,propaganda that he died in plan crash . doesn't make him any less of a hero , just bad pres in those times !
@sgtoooog Never heard that. As far as the "Hero thing". No argument at all. My point was that he was a big star in entertainment. He enlisted and performed USO show's. Which was very good. But Bob Hope did the same, out of uniform.
@Mrphatbastard1 Dan Ford, a decorated Vietnam combat officer, told Wayne biographer Davis, “It must have weighed heavily on him which way to go. But here was his chance and he knew it. He was an action leading man, there were a lot of roles for him to play, and this was a guy who had made eighty B movies. He had finally moved up to the first rank. He was in the right spot at the right time with the right qualities and willing to work hard. Would I have done any different? The answer is hell no.”
@SSRogue88 George Bush is my hero, when he left office this country was in the best shape it's ever been in, no debt, no wars, lowest unemployment, no weapons of mass destruction, respected by the world and no special rights for christians. Wait, that sounds like Bill Clinton, well then he's my hero!
I'm a cousin to William Travis...The "Duke" is spot on...as always. Reading the negative comments about him is sickening. My country gives you the right to do so. I am grateful for that. Make no mistake. WE are in serious trouble and many of us might be called to rise to such an ocassion again. I pray not. But so many of us know TRUE history and will not sit idle while insane people send our country to hell..God bless from TEXAS!!!!
John Wayne is not only a good actor but a great man, had a saying or quote for every movie it seems, The Alamo was a good one, True Grit was great as well.
John Wayne always sounded like he was on reds. I wonder if he had a problem with barbiturates? Thick tongue, slurred speech - it could have been reds or yellow jackets.
So let me get this straight; Republicans oppose gays serving openly in the military yet hold up this draft-dodger as an example of a hero? Sorry, but limp-wristed Alphonso down the street who likes to watch Glee and dance the moonwalk is more likely to hold a gun and see war more than this phony.
@CoyKiyote i have to agree with coykiyote here. a gay guy would be more of an real American by the Duke's definition than the Duke himself was. He really didn't have any deferments from the military. He was a draft dodger in the true sense of the word. go google it. he was booed off the stage at a USO show because servicemen viewed him as a coward.
@davidk4616 No, I think he was more interested in providing for his family at that point in time. Not signing up for the military certainly wasn't for lack of courage, he did his own stunts back then, which were very dangerous.
@SSRogue88 That's it, comparing a soldier to a stunt man, makes sense to me I guess. Btw, chuck norass called and is looking for his follower, you know he does his own stunts which are very dangerous
This is why I am a Libertarian, even if people won't listen to them or vote for their candidates. I don't care whom people wish to marry. I may not understand it, but it doesn't hurt me. I don't like anybody telling me what religion I need to be, but I'm happy for them to practice whatever faith they want. I'm tired of our soldiers dying overseas for stupid causes, but love the military. Also, I don't think people in this country are entitled to anything, just free to pursue their lives.
"Wayne was exempted from service due to his age (34 at the time of Pearl Harbor) and family status, classified as 3-A (family deferment). "
While some hold Wayne in contempt for the paradox between his early actions and his later attitudes, his widow suggests Wayne's rampant patriotism in later decades sprang not from hypocrisy but from guilt. Pilar Wayne wrote, "He would become a 'superpatriot' for the rest of his life trying to atone for staying home."
Wayne is a celluloid hero that didn't want to serve in WW2 as his career was on the rise and the mere fact that other stars were serving aided in that. He was not a hero like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable or the other movie stars that served. I like him, always have, but he is or was, no Jimmy Stewart.
@paz77ful It's as if you have no idea what John Wayne just said. What he just said about the word "republic." And it's down right un-American of you to call people who vote differently than you anything less than American. Some people want the right to marry, other people don't want them to have that right, some people want the right to have guns, others don't want them to have that right. And when a democrat or anybody dies for this country - for freedom and acceptance, it's pathetic to boo.
John Wayne was actually a liberal in real life and married to a hispanic woman. Does that diminish his views? NOT one bit in my humble opinion. He believed a man is a man regardless of race, nationality, beliefs, etc... and he should do the right thing when it's either called for or forced upon him. Maybe this is his greatest legacy in movies and his own life and if we can our own biases aside perhaps we can still learn something from the Duke.
By reading some of the comments I see that there are some mentally challenged liberials on You Tube ! Let's all start a pledge.A pledge to help these mentally challenged libs to eat rat poison & die !
Even if John Wayne was not perfect (who is ?), he was a great man and one can feel it - there is this charisma coming out of him, this quiet strength, and also he has a calming effect on people - a rare human being !
JOHN WAYNE WAS " NOT" A COWARD,HE WAS UNDER CONTRACT TO MAKE A MOVIE THE DIRECTOR TOLD HIM IF HE WENT TO WAR I WILL SUE YOU FOR EVERTHING YOU HAVE YOU SEE HE DID NOT WANT HIM KILLED OR HURT READ THE BOOK CALLED MY LIFE WITH THE DUKE BY PILAR WAYNE HIS WIFE,,,BEFORE YOU SAY UGLY THINGS ABOUT SOMEONE!!!!!!!!
@Shinimegami86 From your response. I think you didn't serve in the Military huh.Tell me this Both you and John Wayne are in America after Japan,Germany& Italy declared war on America.Would you immediately join right away I know I would.Nah you just going to make excuses so you can play your video games.Oh wait there was no such thing as that in the early 1940's.They'll just put you away in an mental institution.
its easy to talk smack about someone who is not here anymore. what have you done with your life that is so great that you feel you can talk down a great man. he is a great hero. for some maybe need to look up hero in dictionary.
Enough with the useless arguments!!!!!!! Not the point of the video, its tellin' how it should be and what to strive for, if it ain't that way FIX IT! Don't bitch in the comments section... Do something about it! I know I try to....
@mlala13, Slavery was just part of the times then, the same that illegal aliens think its their right to come to America and take what they haven't earned. The same as moronic windbags fill young minds with entitlement mentality and hatred for success. Some people knew it wasn't right, and did something about it. But, if you really knew what liberty was, you wouldn't be liberal. Liberalism kills liberty, because it uses the lowest common denominator to make us equal, instead of just being free.
You people who THINK you know the facts about John Wayne and his deferrement from military service, dont know anything. As a brother FREEMASON, I assure you that the DUKE was a better AMERICAN than probably 50% of the people that serve in our military today. Im also a U.S. Navy veteran and I can tell you straight, that just because you were or are in the military, doesnt make you a hero. There are plenty of men and women in our military, that are as worthless as they come.
When he could have put his patriotrism into action in WWII, he chose to sit it out. The freedom the Texans were fighting for was the freedom to have slaves. The Texans were doing the same thing in Texas that the Mexicans are now doing. They were illegal immigrants.
@WALTERBROADDUS Look it up on the internet. His classifications never had anything to do with medical conditions. He got deferments because of his family status. Had he wanted to serve, he could have. When the bulets were flying, he chose not to get close to them. He is an actor. Not a hero.
so many lessons about life. It's sad that many people don't know what a true man and legend he was/is…I feel sorry for the people that think he can’t act…
The 18 people that clicked the dislike button need to get their head out of their asses (pardon my language). John Wayne was so many great things...a fighter, a true American, tough, portrayed a great cowboy in the western movies, and a great solider in his war movies. But above all, he's a legend...I've been watching John Wayne movies since i was a little girl...now I’m 16 and still watch his movies a lot more. I can recite every line from every movie that he has made made and he has taught me
I love John Wayne and have a lot of his movies on DVD and have most of the lines memorized. Having said that, this was not a role that he should have played. If you examine the life and physical description of Davy Crockett, the person is was named after btw, you would see that. Davy Crockett was a small man and despised all the made up stories about him and the things he was credited for doing but in all actuality never did.
All this talk of "Real" Americans. I thought that if you were born in the USA, you were a Real American? That's not the case? You have to belong to a certain ideology to be a "Real" American? Isn't that fascism? Isn't that what "Real" Americans fought hard against? Whatever happened to those Americans? You know, the ones who would say "I don't agree with what you say, but I will gladly die to defend your right to say it"? Where have those Real Americans gone?
@papersplease I fought for your right to say the things you wish, no matter if I find them agreeable or repulsive. I also fought for the right of others to tell you that they think you are unAmerican and that you should burn in hell. You seem to want the right to degrade and disrespect this country while at the same time wishing to deny others the right to call you out on it. It doesn't work that way.
@Rikki0 I'm arguing for the right of anyone born in the US to be considered "Real Americans" because that's exactly what they are. You have no authority to decide who is a real American and who is not. Nothing in my comments ever degraded or disrespected America. I am an ally of America.
I will, however, take this opportunity to disrespect you for you stupidity and kneejerk reaction. I'm not American. Your service means nothing to me. Others fought for my rights.
In the beginning JW is talking about peoples rights in the constitution. It is sad but people and that states that they live in have been slowly losing their constitutional rights for decades now. It seems everyone just wants big government now and for that government to be involved in everything in our life from cradle to grave. For me, Im like JW, I would like the right to choose and not be told.
This is a REAL man with lots of wisdom. Sure some of what he is saying is a script, but this is how he really was. I miss men like him and Ronald Reagan. Obama needs to spend some time listening to these!
John wayne! His image influenced a lot of fellas. And you know what, he was only an actor, yet he influenced the shit out of us, and made us good men. A real man!
i met a few actors when i was younger hitch hiking around centeral cal. and the ones i met were deacent people but i never got to meat the duke but that did not mean that i did not like his movies i loved them but i have a problem i am sure some of you duke fans could help me with a two years ago my wife was told she had cancer by a doctor in tulsa after the surgery she went into a coma for three months becouse of an infection please watch msbones1950 a slow death and pass the word
I had John Waynes pic on my locker in Iraq, with the caption "A mans got to do what a mans got to do"
John Wayne has been an inspiration for several generations and will be for countless more to come. The even made reference to John Wayne in the new movie Battle LA.
@booboo9993 I'm glad for someone your age understands what it means to be an American.Your parents taught you well.Just be proud.You are our future of this country.
@booboo9993 Son you might be 12 years old but you have more insight than all 12 of them put together. I'm sure John is proud of the younger generation such as yourself that keeps the American Spirit alive and well and don't ever let people like that discourage you just because of your patriotism to your country. They don't appreciate nor do they know how lucky they are for living in a country that allows there viewpoint being heard without being imprisoned or worse. I Salute You American!
You notice he didnt say democracy. He said REPUBLIC. A democracy is a mob. Republics are organized to serve the people. The founders hated democracies. The wanted this country to be a Republic.
you people, for Christs sake. some of you just dont get it. the duke wasn't about Republican or Democrat. Man was about being an American. Sure the man had his leanings but who doesn't. But he summed it up pretty well when he supported JFK after he was elected saying "I didn't vote for him but he's my president." Man was talking about the individual rights we all take for granted, like the right to be able to speak freely. Republican or Democrat it dont matter. we're all in this together.
If the right wing conservatives are so patriotic, name 1 national figure that served his country? Not Bush2 whose daddy put him ahead of thousands to be safe in the Tx national guard. Not Cheney, who said he " had better things to do " than fight in Viet Nam. Not Roger Ailes, who runs Faux news, not Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh, who got a deferrment for a boil on his behind. Not Bill Kristol , editor of National Review, who badly wants to start a war with Iran [ as long as someone else fights}
U know it was wrong of people to spit on the soldiers who came home from Vietnam and it's still wrong to negatively comment about a person when there dead. Dude he's been dead for like 48 years or somethin. Let It Go People
Those who complain about John Wayne, must love the Dung Miner's of Hollywood today.
Wayne would never have backed any of crap that has happened since he passed away.
George Washington has NO holiday in his name, and his name has been removed from public buildings now for 20 years.
Do you think the turd World invaders will care for Washingtons legacy or any republic, as they come from holes where they are told how hight to jump, but come here and hate US, rob, rape, steal, murder stink
@obbzerver He didn't dodge the draft at all. In fact in several cases he tried to get his status changed so that he could go but on more than one occasion the studio blocked his attempts. Granted he didn't really push too hard to get into the war, but he did not dodge the draft at all. You also have to realize that at the time he was in his mid thirties already, not a young man and so not really a prime candidate any way.
@BBGJG thank u all the cowards that say that he was a draft dodger are too stupid to go and look up the real reasons and most are just cowards themselves. Many of them are military men that dont hold up the high standards that our grandfathers set and couldnt hold a candle to john wayne.
@BBGJG You're right John Wayne couldn't enlist the service due to a fooyball injury in college.He's no draft dodger.Unlike our current actor/actress today who would cry if ever served with a draft notice.
@BBGJG "..he tried to get his status changed..." Bullshit, his personal secretary who handled all his business said that he never made any serious follow-ups to get in. The so-called studio threats were just an excuse. No way a major studio would want the bad publicity from suing one of their stars because he wanted to serve at the height of WWII. Football injuries, etc. - more bullshit excuses. His injuries were long healed. He was fit enough to sit a saddle, he was fit enough to serve.
@obbzerver As far as his age, he was ONE year older than James Stewart who was at first rejected as physically unfit to serve but stubbornly persisted until he got in and served combat tours and had a distinguished career as an Army Air Corps officer.
@obbzerver Ditto Bob hope who was just short of only 5 years older than James Stewart and ONE year past the *mandatory* age to be eligible to be drafted. Hope was a former professional boxer and an avid, near-professional level golfer - plenty fit to serve. Another celebrity who would have had no problem using his pull to get in if he'd really wanted to, instead spent the rest of his life making excuses and building a phony persona.
@blaw133 You're just another jackass from Sweden. No one is interested in your feelings toward John Wayne. You people are to damn stupid to know what 'freedom' and 'love for country' mean. I just hope the US never goes the way of Sweden.
@mrblujet Go back to school you pathetic hill-billy. In academic textbooks Sweden is often highlighted as one of the most democratic countries in the world. In Sweden you don’t have to be a multi-millionaire to become the prime minister and the politicians are not connected to multi-national corporations. Unlike you americans we Swedes never massacred our native population nor did we engage in the slave trade (at least not in modern times).
@mrblujet Even though the U.S is the richest country in the world you still have huge areas that resemble the third world where people live with no hope just because you are too fucking greedy to help your fellow man. Your government spends billions developing new technology to kill other human beings and you consume more natural resources than any other country in the world. What is their to love? John Wayne was a patriot of the worst kind, a simple ignorant rascist.
@blaw133 ".....you still have huge areas that resemble the third world......"
Oh yeah? Like where and who? Buddy, your last post just shows that you have never set foot in the US and are probably getting your info from those "academic textbooks". Our poorest areas are richer than some so-called 'rich spots' on this planet. Too greedy to help our fellow man? That is just plain stupid ! Indonesia, Haiti, Chile? All in the last 10 years? Pull your head out of your ass!
@mrblujet When I wrote that you have large areas that resemble the third world I was not referring to just material wealth. I was referring to areas whit extreme social problems such as high crime rates, violence, drug addiction, unemployment and low education levels, areas where people are born into more or less hopeless situations. These areas resemble areas in third world countries.
@blaw133 And you will also notice that these cities you describe are run by liberal Democrats who preach and practice the type of policies that you and other European socialists love to lecture the rest of the world on. You can keep your policies.
@mrblujet I have been to America several times and my opinions are based on my own experiences. I witnessed the poverty and humiliation with my own eyes. I also came across several ignorant Americans like you, who deny that there exist problems simply because they are not affected.
@blaw133 Nice speech. You sound like you are in an acting class or something. And I am still calling bullshit about you ever having set foot in this country.
@blaw133 You forget one important thing. The United States is a melting-pot of other countries. Don't pretend there aren't people of Swedish descent here in the U.S. As for your English speaking abilities, if you're going to call someone "a idiot", you end up looking like a dumbass. You see, a noun that begins with a vowel must be referred to by using "an", as in "you're an idiot". You said, "John Wayne is a idiot". Nice try there, dick-hole.
@blaw133 Whoa man. Our bad for expecting people to take care of themselves a little bit. I dont accept handouts. Its called pride. We Americans like to think that we can take care of ourselves without a government holding our hands and taking away our right to think for ourselves. Plus, on an elementary scale, Our country would kick your country's ass. So we win.
@blaw133 "...you still have huge areas that resemble the third world where people live with no hope..."
And just like people in the third world those in these ghettos breed babies they're not prepared to care for. Of course, unlike the third world where people just starve, there's a welfare system in place. Unfortunately that welfare system in some ways makes the problem worse.
@blaw133 "...John Wayne was a patriot of the worst kind, a simple ignorant rascist..."
What made John Wayne the worst kind of patriot wasn't ignorance or racism, it was his hypocrisy. Never served a day in uniform when he was called during WWII - dodged the draft. Then spent the rest of his life telling everyone what a patriot he was and how "real Americans" should think. He loudly supported the Vietnam war though he of course had never put himself in harms way in combat.
A great American who was a great influence in many people's lives. He lived and breathed "FREEDOM"! He will always be the greatest actor ever in my opinion.
From age 16 to age 35 are the most turbulent years in a mans life, when we find out who we are, and begin to understand what our station in life will be, when we find love, truth and understanding and shed the coils of our juvenile beginnings, when building a family becomes more important the a night out with the guys, when a man believes in something so much that they would give their lives for it, these are the years that will come to define us as men, so live earnest.... best quote ever!!
I admire and respect John Wayne a true American, my father was born in 1920 died in 1978 and he just happened to be named John Wayne also so of course i have a interest, God Bless America and America Bless God
Funny thing that the Duke talks about Texas becoming a republic where men can be free...problem is, it was a republic that allowed slavery & later was a slave state when it joined the Union. So it wasn't a "free" country for all men. Only for men of a certain color. It's a shame so many had to die in the American Civil War...but at least it ended gov't-sanctioned slavery in this country once & for all.
He may have been a fricken Nazi or a Commie or a God dam werewolf for all I know? But he preached for a free Republic and a ton of Americans were influenced by him. What he did out weighs what he might have been I think.
Westerns are not about racism or the superiority of any type of person. A western is about man living in a hostile enviroment and having to rely on themselves. John Wayne movies were not racist, and people who bitch about westerns obviously do not care for them. Do not try to demonize something because you do not like or understand it.
@mjm412010 Well said... I cannot understand how anyone who has seen his movies could think he was racist. He often took up the defense of the American indian in his movies and portrayed their abusers as the bad guys... the trolls make no sense. He understood the concept of America and what it meant to be free. I wish more people felt like he did.
@bobolith And your weak-response to my overall statement only underlies your inability to stick to the subject. After looking over a number of your comments on a thread for John Wayne movie fans, it is clear that you are in fact one of the trolls I spoke of before. Spend less time criticizing other people's choices, and go live out your own life.
@mjm412010 Obviously you don't understand the reason people don't like those westerns. It is mythology about the WHITE man living in a hostile environment. You don't see too many westerns where natives are being surrounded by hostile white men and overcoming them with guts, grit or ingenuity. That wouldn't agree with american mythology. Take your own advice and don't try to belittle others' opinions if you don't understand them.
@bobolith First, I did not try to belittle the opinons of others. If it come off that way I apologize. I was mainly trying to adress people calling the actor a "Pussy" or a "nazi" without good reasoning. Second, there aren't that many movies about Indians in the position of the protagonist. To me this sad, but I doubt there would have been much of a market for such a movie. Also, such a situtation would be harder to write since there were not too many Native Americans in that position.
@bobolith There are also John Wayne movies that show a respect for the Native American. McClintock, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon are two that come to mind. Finally, if someone wants to dislike the genre for a good reason; fine. There is room for disagreement and debate, but there is not reason for outrageous and offensive comments.
I only wish that the Duke could have lived long enough to have been President. He represented America and honestly, as a man, he lived the words he said.
God Bless the Wayne (Morrison) family, and may someone like the Duke come forth and save what we have left in this nation.
@bobolith I'd like to see how many "people" would agree with you. I'm sure only cowards like you, who refuse to see the truth, will be at your funeral.
@copper116 I have to admit, your comment stumps me. First, I have no idea why you put the word "people" in quotations. Strange. Secondly, you don't know me and yet you call me a coward and talk about my funeral. Stranger. I suppose I hurt your feelings by commenting that your hero was a racist. Well, he was, plain and simple. His livelihood rested on making fantasy westerns that grossly misrepresented the american natives and glorified the hero-cowboy (himself). Some hero.
@bobolith: You claim John Wayne was a racist based on what facts? Your opinion? I assume you had long intimate talks with him & know his heart 1st hand? I suspect the truth is that you didn't agree with his political views so you resort to name calling. Apparently you don't like the idea of a Republic...
@rjbaun I claim he was a racist based on the fact that his movies espoused the view of white privilege. They did nothing to shed light on the real history of America. They made life more difficult for american Natives. Remember when Sacheen Littlefeather accepted Brando's academy award for Godfather? Apparently John Wayne had to be held back from physically assaulting her. Even if he wouldn't have assaulted her physically, his anger over her message is quite telling.
@bobolith: White privilege? It was a war between cultures like countless others that have occurred since man 1st drew breath. Just as the American Indians who came from Asia ~20000 years ago & drove the native Americans into So/Central America. Why is the 1 war between the US & the Indians singled out? I think it fits into your "America is evil" mindset. As to the charges against JW, I take those with a grain of salt as libs often defame in an attempt to silence anyone with whom they disagree.
@rjbaun It seems that Sacheen Littlefeather (and Brando - in addition to countless Natives) were opposed to the way Natives were portrayed in the movies, and I suppose John Wayne felt threatened by that. After all, when you make a career out of propagating a 'patriotic' myth about america's early days - banging the gong of white privilege and being called a hero for it - anyone who publicly tries to burst that balloon would be threatening. Yes, he was very much an elitist.
I did a report on him at my school
Anjeloshell233 3 days ago
When the boogey man goes to sleep at night, he checks for Chuck Norris. When Chuck Norris goes to sleep at night, he checks for John Wayne.
Idroppedmypencil99 1 week ago
John Wayne, great American hero. what things he would say about what the liberals are turning this country into. John Wayne would kick Obama out of this sacred land
SoccerDJRob 2 weeks ago
I'm a Democrat who served in Vietnam along with my brother who was killed in the line of duty, your so called Hollywood hero dressed in a Hollywood costume owned by MGM was a known war mongering draft dodger. Every phony piece of patriotism he spewed was from one of his writers. He promoted and backed the tobacco lobby through commercials and the use of their products, we all know how that turned out! Get a grip conservative sockpuppets and follow a real hero!
Mrphatbastard1 3 weeks ago
@Mrphatbastard1 By 1943, with officer’s slots all filled, the only way Wayne could have gone into the service was as an army private; he had waited too long. Years later Wayne told Dan Ford that as a private, “I felt it would be a waste of time to spend two years picking up cigarette butts. I thought I could do more for the war effort by staying in Hollywood.” Most stars in the service found they were relegated to public relations duties out of harm’s way strictly for morale reasons.
Coolmans24 3 weeks ago
@Coolmans24 Right wingers have got more excuses than a crackhead goin' to jail!!
Mrphatbastard1 2 weeks ago
@Coolmans24 I believe that's right. He didn't sign up because he had four children to support. How could he feed four kids back then on the wages of a Private? I would have made the same decision as him.
SSRogue88 2 weeks ago
@SSRogue88 Exactly, how could he or anyone for that matter be expected to ruin his career to be some buck private? He made the right choice, the choice anyone in there right mind would have made.
Coolmans24 2 weeks ago
@Coolmans24 I read in a biography that he had signed a new contract a film company and was threatened with law suit if he enlisted. To famous for the military to use him as anything but USO postings. Several well known actors enlisted, but were eventually discharged. Gov. was afraid of negative propaganda. Clark Gable discharged, Glen Miller lost in airplane crash, body never found. As a private, he would have been to much of a problem. Remember the boxer that enlisted in the Marines.
gdawsey 2 weeks ago
@gdawsey glenn miller died in a bordello in france,,,,,,,propaganda that he died in plan crash . doesn't make him any less of a hero , just bad pres in those times !
sgtoooog 3 days ago
@sgtoooog Never heard that. As far as the "Hero thing". No argument at all. My point was that he was a big star in entertainment. He enlisted and performed USO show's. Which was very good. But Bob Hope did the same, out of uniform.
gdawsey 2 days ago
@Mrphatbastard1 Dan Ford, a decorated Vietnam combat officer, told Wayne biographer Davis, “It must have weighed heavily on him which way to go. But here was his chance and he knew it. He was an action leading man, there were a lot of roles for him to play, and this was a guy who had made eighty B movies. He had finally moved up to the first rank. He was in the right spot at the right time with the right qualities and willing to work hard. Would I have done any different? The answer is hell no.”
Coolmans24 3 weeks ago
@Mrphatbastard1 and who's your hero, Obama?
SSRogue88 2 weeks ago
@SSRogue88 George Bush is my hero, when he left office this country was in the best shape it's ever been in, no debt, no wars, lowest unemployment, no weapons of mass destruction, respected by the world and no special rights for christians. Wait, that sounds like Bill Clinton, well then he's my hero!
Mrphatbastard1 2 weeks ago
@SSRogue88 Damn straight, Fool!!
Mrphatbastard1 2 weeks ago
I'm a cousin to William Travis...The "Duke" is spot on...as always. Reading the negative comments about him is sickening. My country gives you the right to do so. I am grateful for that. Make no mistake. WE are in serious trouble and many of us might be called to rise to such an ocassion again. I pray not. But so many of us know TRUE history and will not sit idle while insane people send our country to hell..God bless from TEXAS!!!!
wthjrtx1 3 weeks ago
John Wayne is not only a good actor but a great man, had a saying or quote for every movie it seems, The Alamo was a good one, True Grit was great as well.
Sweetooth6969 3 weeks ago
Happy thanksgiving pilgrims
TheAlexBradley 1 month ago
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John Wayne always sounded like he was on reds. I wonder if he had a problem with barbiturates? Thick tongue, slurred speech - it could have been reds or yellow jackets.
davidk4616 1 month ago
So let me get this straight; Republicans oppose gays serving openly in the military yet hold up this draft-dodger as an example of a hero? Sorry, but limp-wristed Alphonso down the street who likes to watch Glee and dance the moonwalk is more likely to hold a gun and see war more than this phony.
CoyKiyote 1 month ago
@CoyKiyote i have to agree with coykiyote here. a gay guy would be more of an real American by the Duke's definition than the Duke himself was. He really didn't have any deferments from the military. He was a draft dodger in the true sense of the word. go google it. he was booed off the stage at a USO show because servicemen viewed him as a coward.
davidk4616 1 month ago
@davidk4616 No, I think he was more interested in providing for his family at that point in time. Not signing up for the military certainly wasn't for lack of courage, he did his own stunts back then, which were very dangerous.
SSRogue88 2 weeks ago
@SSRogue88 That's it, comparing a soldier to a stunt man, makes sense to me I guess. Btw, chuck norass called and is looking for his follower, you know he does his own stunts which are very dangerous
Mrphatbastard1 2 weeks ago
he could not serve he hurt his knees playing football in college
33joiner 1 month ago
This is why I am a Libertarian, even if people won't listen to them or vote for their candidates. I don't care whom people wish to marry. I may not understand it, but it doesn't hurt me. I don't like anybody telling me what religion I need to be, but I'm happy for them to practice whatever faith they want. I'm tired of our soldiers dying overseas for stupid causes, but love the military. Also, I don't think people in this country are entitled to anything, just free to pursue their lives.
dgoren121692 2 months ago
If you think you have to serve to be patriotic you are sadly mistaken.
MeronRamune 2 months ago 3
@MeronRamune Yah, it's easy to send someone else's kids to war, huh?
CoyKiyote 1 month ago
@CoyKiyote
It is even easier to give aways someone else's money.
CSATexan 1 month ago
"Wayne was exempted from service due to his age (34 at the time of Pearl Harbor) and family status, classified as 3-A (family deferment). "
While some hold Wayne in contempt for the paradox between his early actions and his later attitudes, his widow suggests Wayne's rampant patriotism in later decades sprang not from hypocrisy but from guilt. Pilar Wayne wrote, "He would become a 'superpatriot' for the rest of his life trying to atone for staying home."
WhiteTrashBarbarian 2 months ago 2
Wayne is a celluloid hero that didn't want to serve in WW2 as his career was on the rise and the mere fact that other stars were serving aided in that. He was not a hero like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable or the other movie stars that served. I like him, always have, but he is or was, no Jimmy Stewart.
jimidee33 2 months ago
I'm a Democrat who fought for the country, so kiss my ass!
ricardo340 2 months ago
19 people watching this were weak lilly-livered democrats who hate the U.S.
paz77ful 2 months ago
@paz77ful It's as if you have no idea what John Wayne just said. What he just said about the word "republic." And it's down right un-American of you to call people who vote differently than you anything less than American. Some people want the right to marry, other people don't want them to have that right, some people want the right to have guns, others don't want them to have that right. And when a democrat or anybody dies for this country - for freedom and acceptance, it's pathetic to boo.
GPNYishai 2 months ago
@GPNYishai youre damn right its un-american of me.....im british ;D
paz77ful 2 months ago
John Wayne is the greatest American actor of all time!
EJT156 2 months ago
John Wayne was actually a liberal in real life and married to a hispanic woman. Does that diminish his views? NOT one bit in my humble opinion. He believed a man is a man regardless of race, nationality, beliefs, etc... and he should do the right thing when it's either called for or forced upon him. Maybe this is his greatest legacy in movies and his own life and if we can our own biases aside perhaps we can still learn something from the Duke.
jdh023 4 months ago 3
By reading some of the comments I see that there are some mentally challenged liberials on You Tube ! Let's all start a pledge.A pledge to help these mentally challenged libs to eat rat poison & die !
amxulraman 4 months ago
I wish John Wayne would come back down to earth and become the President. He'd whip the US back into shape in one term!
God bless you, Duke, we need ya.
JordanAP96 5 months ago 2
@JordanAP96 Back in his prime they wanted him to run. He did not want to take a pay cut lol...so he made his points in the movies.
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Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
Even if John Wayne was not perfect (who is ?), he was a great man and one can feel it - there is this charisma coming out of him, this quiet strength, and also he has a calming effect on people - a rare human being !
kamalawhite 5 months ago 2
JOHN WAYNE WAS " NOT" A COWARD,HE WAS UNDER CONTRACT TO MAKE A MOVIE THE DIRECTOR TOLD HIM IF HE WENT TO WAR I WILL SUE YOU FOR EVERTHING YOU HAVE YOU SEE HE DID NOT WANT HIM KILLED OR HURT READ THE BOOK CALLED MY LIFE WITH THE DUKE BY PILAR WAYNE HIS WIFE,,,BEFORE YOU SAY UGLY THINGS ABOUT SOMEONE!!!!!!!!
midway2100 5 months ago
John Wayne was not a draft dodger or a coward. He was a great moral role model and a great American/
669RoadWarrior 5 months ago
@booboo9993 I agree!
SouthernBell4Christ 5 months ago
@Shinimegami86 From your response. I think you didn't serve in the Military huh.Tell me this Both you and John Wayne are in America after Japan,Germany& Italy declared war on America.Would you immediately join right away I know I would.Nah you just going to make excuses so you can play your video games.Oh wait there was no such thing as that in the early 1940's.They'll just put you away in an mental institution.
weneedheroesnow 6 months ago
its easy to talk smack about someone who is not here anymore. what have you done with your life that is so great that you feel you can talk down a great man. he is a great hero. for some maybe need to look up hero in dictionary.
TheJames229 6 months ago 17
Wow unanorexic, you really hate him, don't you? Who else provokes your righteous indignation and why?
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texfisk 6 months ago
Its my birthday today, for my present, I want John Wayne to come back.
wes723ley 6 months ago
Enough with the useless arguments!!!!!!! Not the point of the video, its tellin' how it should be and what to strive for, if it ain't that way FIX IT! Don't bitch in the comments section... Do something about it! I know I try to....
metalfire13 6 months ago
@mlala13, Slavery was just part of the times then, the same that illegal aliens think its their right to come to America and take what they haven't earned. The same as moronic windbags fill young minds with entitlement mentality and hatred for success. Some people knew it wasn't right, and did something about it. But, if you really knew what liberty was, you wouldn't be liberal. Liberalism kills liberty, because it uses the lowest common denominator to make us equal, instead of just being free.
texlokman 6 months ago
Sorry, but they wanted Texas to have another slave state in the Union. Not very lofty, but the truth usually isn't.
jerico641 7 months ago
You people who THINK you know the facts about John Wayne and his deferrement from military service, dont know anything. As a brother FREEMASON, I assure you that the DUKE was a better AMERICAN than probably 50% of the people that serve in our military today. Im also a U.S. Navy veteran and I can tell you straight, that just because you were or are in the military, doesnt make you a hero. There are plenty of men and women in our military, that are as worthless as they come.
aircraftbuilder 7 months ago
@TerminallyPsychotic No, But I'd stand on that wall any day with him.
WALTERBROADDUS 7 months ago
When he could have put his patriotrism into action in WWII, he chose to sit it out. The freedom the Texans were fighting for was the freedom to have slaves. The Texans were doing the same thing in Texas that the Mexicans are now doing. They were illegal immigrants.
rantingcurmudgeon 7 months ago
@rantingcurmudgeon He did not "sit" out the war. He was rejected for medical reasons.
WALTERBROADDUS 7 months ago
@WALTERBROADDUS Look it up on the internet. His classifications never had anything to do with medical conditions. He got deferments because of his family status. Had he wanted to serve, he could have. When the bulets were flying, he chose not to get close to them. He is an actor. Not a hero.
rantingcurmudgeon 7 months ago
so many lessons about life. It's sad that many people don't know what a true man and legend he was/is…I feel sorry for the people that think he can’t act…
Kburns2013 7 months ago
The 18 people that clicked the dislike button need to get their head out of their asses (pardon my language). John Wayne was so many great things...a fighter, a true American, tough, portrayed a great cowboy in the western movies, and a great solider in his war movies. But above all, he's a legend...I've been watching John Wayne movies since i was a little girl...now I’m 16 and still watch his movies a lot more. I can recite every line from every movie that he has made made and he has taught me
Kburns2013 7 months ago
Do you know where I can find the footage of Wayne speaking the last part of this video?
anniemosesband 7 months ago
What kind of a person would not 'like' this speech? Oh, a Liberal Progressive anti-American fool!
thomascapital 7 months ago
I love John Wayne and have a lot of his movies on DVD and have most of the lines memorized. Having said that, this was not a role that he should have played. If you examine the life and physical description of Davy Crockett, the person is was named after btw, you would see that. Davy Crockett was a small man and despised all the made up stories about him and the things he was credited for doing but in all actuality never did.
PackFanDave 7 months ago
All this talk of "Real" Americans. I thought that if you were born in the USA, you were a Real American? That's not the case? You have to belong to a certain ideology to be a "Real" American? Isn't that fascism? Isn't that what "Real" Americans fought hard against? Whatever happened to those Americans? You know, the ones who would say "I don't agree with what you say, but I will gladly die to defend your right to say it"? Where have those Real Americans gone?
papersplease 8 months ago 2
@papersplease You just attack people for saying what real american is. "ill fight for your right to say it' like most liberals your full of crap.
coatofarms05 8 months ago
@coatofarms05 Who decides who a Real American is? What should happen to those you deem to not be Real Americans? Answer these questions.
papersplease 8 months ago
@papersplease I fought for your right to say the things you wish, no matter if I find them agreeable or repulsive. I also fought for the right of others to tell you that they think you are unAmerican and that you should burn in hell. You seem to want the right to degrade and disrespect this country while at the same time wishing to deny others the right to call you out on it. It doesn't work that way.
Semper Fi
Vietnam 69-71
Rikki0 7 months ago
@Rikki0 I'm arguing for the right of anyone born in the US to be considered "Real Americans" because that's exactly what they are. You have no authority to decide who is a real American and who is not. Nothing in my comments ever degraded or disrespected America. I am an ally of America.
I will, however, take this opportunity to disrespect you for you stupidity and kneejerk reaction. I'm not American. Your service means nothing to me. Others fought for my rights.
papersplease 7 months ago
In the beginning JW is talking about peoples rights in the constitution. It is sad but people and that states that they live in have been slowly losing their constitutional rights for decades now. It seems everyone just wants big government now and for that government to be involved in everything in our life from cradle to grave. For me, Im like JW, I would like the right to choose and not be told.
glenlackey2 8 months ago
This is a REAL man with lots of wisdom. Sure some of what he is saying is a script, but this is how he really was. I miss men like him and Ronald Reagan. Obama needs to spend some time listening to these!
ktemom72 8 months ago
I grew up with this guy being a mans man, but this guy was also a man of justice and truth. Actor or ney this man was what he was.
Kaldhore 8 months ago
John wayne! His image influenced a lot of fellas. And you know what, he was only an actor, yet he influenced the shit out of us, and made us good men. A real man!
LilLordFauntleroyLoL 8 months ago
lol what the hell with these comments
relaxingmusic101 8 months ago
"Hit a lick against what's wrong. Or to say a word for what's right even though you get wolloped for saying that word." Amen, Duke...Amen.
IzzyJG99 8 months ago 3
GOD Save The Republic
unknownuser2510 8 months ago 3
18 PEOPLE ARE A BUNCH OF FAIRY QUEERS THAT ARE LIGHTER IN THEIR LOAFERS THAN RICKY MARTIN
MrVSSLX3 8 months ago
i met a few actors when i was younger hitch hiking around centeral cal. and the ones i met were deacent people but i never got to meat the duke but that did not mean that i did not like his movies i loved them but i have a problem i am sure some of you duke fans could help me with a two years ago my wife was told she had cancer by a doctor in tulsa after the surgery she went into a coma for three months becouse of an infection please watch msbones1950 a slow death and pass the word
MsBones1950 9 months ago
I had John Waynes pic on my locker in Iraq, with the caption "A mans got to do what a mans got to do"
John Wayne has been an inspiration for several generations and will be for countless more to come. The even made reference to John Wayne in the new movie Battle LA.
usarmycaptainamerica 9 months ago 2
ive never seen a baby shave before.
innit27 10 months ago
This is one of the best videos that I've ever seen on youtube.
InternetDisciple 10 months ago
One reason I fought in Vietnam Pilgrim's :)
marinevet66to68 10 months ago 2
The Duke made a huge splash, back before Hollyword was just occupied by weirdos.
RIP my friend.
AmericanMale1953 10 months ago 2
18 people that clicked dis like kiss my american ass
sheltonbryantaylor 10 months ago 2
im only 12 but for all the people who clicked the dislike button i feel bad for you for not knowing what a true american is
booboo9993 10 months ago 42
@booboo9993 I'm glad for someone your age understands what it means to be an American.Your parents taught you well.Just be proud.You are our future of this country.
weneedheroesnow 10 months ago 2
@booboo9993 You, young man are way ahead of the game. Good on you, my friend. Aspire to be like this man and you'll be a real man.
IzzyJG99 8 months ago 2
@booboo9993 Son you might be 12 years old but you have more insight than all 12 of them put together. I'm sure John is proud of the younger generation such as yourself that keeps the American Spirit alive and well and don't ever let people like that discourage you just because of your patriotism to your country. They don't appreciate nor do they know how lucky they are for living in a country that allows there viewpoint being heard without being imprisoned or worse. I Salute You American!
19541973j 8 months ago 3
@booboo9993 Tell your parents they raised you the proper way.A real American Kid.
weneedheroesnow 8 months ago
@booboo9993 You're a good man, booboo. You may be only twelve years old, but you've already got a good head on your shoulders, son.
SwampDaddy7 8 months ago
@booboo9993 It does my heart good to see a 12 year old that still knows what America is all about. Bless you booboo
ndgriego1 6 months ago
@booboo9993 true american doesnt exist anymore. this was in a time of john wayne immigrants. nothing to do with you.
bansheewhiskey 4 months ago
@bansheewhiskey none the less, what john wayne states, still applies to this day.
sr71ablackbird 4 months ago 11
i'm only 34 years old, but i've always been honored that my life overlaped THE DUKES time on this planet..... but what a loss.
smokermankiller 10 months ago 3
You notice he didnt say democracy. He said REPUBLIC. A democracy is a mob. Republics are organized to serve the people. The founders hated democracies. The wanted this country to be a Republic.
devilblue72 10 months ago 3
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@devilblue72 “I pledge allegiance to the Flag, of the United States of America, and to the Republic
for which it stands, one Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”...
AmericanMale1953 10 months ago
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john wayne was a racist bigot...
fonzi0was0cool 11 months ago
you people, for Christs sake. some of you just dont get it. the duke wasn't about Republican or Democrat. Man was about being an American. Sure the man had his leanings but who doesn't. But he summed it up pretty well when he supported JFK after he was elected saying "I didn't vote for him but he's my president." Man was talking about the individual rights we all take for granted, like the right to be able to speak freely. Republican or Democrat it dont matter. we're all in this together.
SamuraiFinn 11 months ago 3
If the right wing conservatives are so patriotic, name 1 national figure that served his country? Not Bush2 whose daddy put him ahead of thousands to be safe in the Tx national guard. Not Cheney, who said he " had better things to do " than fight in Viet Nam. Not Roger Ailes, who runs Faux news, not Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh, who got a deferrment for a boil on his behind. Not Bill Kristol , editor of National Review, who badly wants to start a war with Iran [ as long as someone else fights}
rarerecordschuck 1 year ago
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@rarerecordschuck John McCain you dumb son of a bitch
Dav1dZMan 1 year ago
@rarerecordschuck drop dead.
kyboy1967 11 months ago
@kyboy1967 the truth hurts , don't it pal?
rarerecordschuck 11 months ago
@rarerecordschuck lol
TheAmazingamerica 11 months ago
U know it was wrong of people to spit on the soldiers who came home from Vietnam and it's still wrong to negatively comment about a person when there dead. Dude he's been dead for like 48 years or somethin. Let It Go People
paramedicEmergency51 1 year ago
Sick demented types send personal messages to all who post here positively.
IMO deleted any messages, fthe p.c. Red Guard bastards.
Nationsnotregimes 1 year ago
thank u! reposted everywhere!~
kimpunkrock 1 year ago
Those who complain about John Wayne, must love the Dung Miner's of Hollywood today.
Wayne would never have backed any of crap that has happened since he passed away.
George Washington has NO holiday in his name, and his name has been removed from public buildings now for 20 years.
Do you think the turd World invaders will care for Washingtons legacy or any republic, as they come from holes where they are told how hight to jump, but come here and hate US, rob, rape, steal, murder stink
Nationsnotregimes 1 year ago 3
@Nationsnotregimes could not of said it better myself!
kimpunkrock 1 year ago
when someone somewhere in the world mentions the name John Wayne, Chuck Norris feels it and gets a mangasm.
hulkmeister23 1 year ago
I think it was Thamas Jefferson who said "The tree of Liberty needs to be watered with the blood of patriots every 7 years. Correct me if I'm wrong.
AlphaBeta1972 1 year ago
@AlphaBeta1972 yeah, you're wrong. wrong headed! [7 yrs is just made up , by the way] Arizona taught some idiots NOTHING!
rarerecordschuck 1 year ago 4
John Wayne is America. This was a real man.
TheJer1963 1 year ago
"...Not to cower in security but be a man and do what's right to fight tyranny..."
We don't have to wonder what Marion Morrison aka John Wayne would do - he dodged the draft in WWII.
obbzerver 1 year ago
@obbzerver He didn't dodge the draft at all. In fact in several cases he tried to get his status changed so that he could go but on more than one occasion the studio blocked his attempts. Granted he didn't really push too hard to get into the war, but he did not dodge the draft at all. You also have to realize that at the time he was in his mid thirties already, not a young man and so not really a prime candidate any way.
BBGJG 1 year ago 3
@BBGJG thank u all the cowards that say that he was a draft dodger are too stupid to go and look up the real reasons and most are just cowards themselves. Many of them are military men that dont hold up the high standards that our grandfathers set and couldnt hold a candle to john wayne.
kimpunkrock 1 year ago
@BBGJG You're right John Wayne couldn't enlist the service due to a fooyball injury in college.He's no draft dodger.Unlike our current actor/actress today who would cry if ever served with a draft notice.
weneedheroesnow 11 months ago
@BBGJG "..he tried to get his status changed..." Bullshit, his personal secretary who handled all his business said that he never made any serious follow-ups to get in. The so-called studio threats were just an excuse. No way a major studio would want the bad publicity from suing one of their stars because he wanted to serve at the height of WWII. Football injuries, etc. - more bullshit excuses. His injuries were long healed. He was fit enough to sit a saddle, he was fit enough to serve.
obbzerver 3 months ago
@obbzerver As far as his age, he was ONE year older than James Stewart who was at first rejected as physically unfit to serve but stubbornly persisted until he got in and served combat tours and had a distinguished career as an Army Air Corps officer.
obbzerver 3 months ago
@obbzerver Ditto Bob hope who was just short of only 5 years older than James Stewart and ONE year past the *mandatory* age to be eligible to be drafted. Hope was a former professional boxer and an avid, near-professional level golfer - plenty fit to serve. Another celebrity who would have had no problem using his pull to get in if he'd really wanted to, instead spent the rest of his life making excuses and building a phony persona.
obbzerver 3 months ago
Pilgrims, it's time to play Cowboy's and terrorists. Shoot and ask questions later..
jsadeghi1 1 year ago
blaw glad ure back in your jungle 3rd world slave to ure goverment.......
casandra1048 1 year ago
god that woman at 0:49 is so beautiful
Jerry033 1 year ago
Damn I miss that guy.
WALTERBROADDUS 1 year ago 52
@WALTERBROADDUS Me too.America needs him.
weneedheroesnow 11 months ago
@WALTERBROADDUS AMEN & AMEN
12Daniel7 11 months ago
John Wayne, what a idiot!
blaw133 1 year ago
@blaw133 You're just another jackass from Sweden. No one is interested in your feelings toward John Wayne. You people are to damn stupid to know what 'freedom' and 'love for country' mean. I just hope the US never goes the way of Sweden.
mrblujet 1 year ago
@mrblujet Go back to school you pathetic hill-billy. In academic textbooks Sweden is often highlighted as one of the most democratic countries in the world. In Sweden you don’t have to be a multi-millionaire to become the prime minister and the politicians are not connected to multi-national corporations. Unlike you americans we Swedes never massacred our native population nor did we engage in the slave trade (at least not in modern times).
blaw133 1 year ago
@mrblujet Even though the U.S is the richest country in the world you still have huge areas that resemble the third world where people live with no hope just because you are too fucking greedy to help your fellow man. Your government spends billions developing new technology to kill other human beings and you consume more natural resources than any other country in the world. What is their to love? John Wayne was a patriot of the worst kind, a simple ignorant rascist.
blaw133 1 year ago
@blaw133 ".....you still have huge areas that resemble the third world......"
Oh yeah? Like where and who? Buddy, your last post just shows that you have never set foot in the US and are probably getting your info from those "academic textbooks". Our poorest areas are richer than some so-called 'rich spots' on this planet. Too greedy to help our fellow man? That is just plain stupid ! Indonesia, Haiti, Chile? All in the last 10 years? Pull your head out of your ass!
mrblujet 1 year ago
@mrblujet When I wrote that you have large areas that resemble the third world I was not referring to just material wealth. I was referring to areas whit extreme social problems such as high crime rates, violence, drug addiction, unemployment and low education levels, areas where people are born into more or less hopeless situations. These areas resemble areas in third world countries.
blaw133 1 year ago
@blaw133 And you will also notice that these cities you describe are run by liberal Democrats who preach and practice the type of policies that you and other European socialists love to lecture the rest of the world on. You can keep your policies.
mrblujet 1 year ago
@mrblujet I have been to America several times and my opinions are based on my own experiences. I witnessed the poverty and humiliation with my own eyes. I also came across several ignorant Americans like you, who deny that there exist problems simply because they are not affected.
blaw133 1 year ago
@blaw133 Nice speech. You sound like you are in an acting class or something. And I am still calling bullshit about you ever having set foot in this country.
mrblujet 1 year ago
@blaw133 You forget one important thing. The United States is a melting-pot of other countries. Don't pretend there aren't people of Swedish descent here in the U.S. As for your English speaking abilities, if you're going to call someone "a idiot", you end up looking like a dumbass. You see, a noun that begins with a vowel must be referred to by using "an", as in "you're an idiot". You said, "John Wayne is a idiot". Nice try there, dick-hole.
guitardc59 1 year ago
@blaw133 Whoa man. Our bad for expecting people to take care of themselves a little bit. I dont accept handouts. Its called pride. We Americans like to think that we can take care of ourselves without a government holding our hands and taking away our right to think for ourselves. Plus, on an elementary scale, Our country would kick your country's ass. So we win.
Jaknafein007 1 year ago
@blaw133 "...you still have huge areas that resemble the third world where people live with no hope..."
And just like people in the third world those in these ghettos breed babies they're not prepared to care for. Of course, unlike the third world where people just starve, there's a welfare system in place. Unfortunately that welfare system in some ways makes the problem worse.
obbzerver 1 year ago
@blaw133 "...John Wayne was a patriot of the worst kind, a simple ignorant rascist..."
What made John Wayne the worst kind of patriot wasn't ignorance or racism, it was his hypocrisy. Never served a day in uniform when he was called during WWII - dodged the draft. Then spent the rest of his life telling everyone what a patriot he was and how "real Americans" should think. He loudly supported the Vietnam war though he of course had never put himself in harms way in combat.
obbzerver 1 year ago
John Wayne, what a idiot!
blaw133 1 year ago
A great American who was a great influence in many people's lives. He lived and breathed "FREEDOM"! He will always be the greatest actor ever in my opinion.
djmc4251 1 year ago
From age 16 to age 35 are the most turbulent years in a mans life, when we find out who we are, and begin to understand what our station in life will be, when we find love, truth and understanding and shed the coils of our juvenile beginnings, when building a family becomes more important the a night out with the guys, when a man believes in something so much that they would give their lives for it, these are the years that will come to define us as men, so live earnest.... best quote ever!!
strongarmeric 1 year ago
I admire and respect John Wayne a true American, my father was born in 1920 died in 1978 and he just happened to be named John Wayne also so of course i have a interest, God Bless America and America Bless God
auld125 1 year ago
The Duke: the original Chuck Norris
Kersey475 1 year ago
Funny thing that the Duke talks about Texas becoming a republic where men can be free...problem is, it was a republic that allowed slavery & later was a slave state when it joined the Union. So it wasn't a "free" country for all men. Only for men of a certain color. It's a shame so many had to die in the American Civil War...but at least it ended gov't-sanctioned slavery in this country once & for all.
JubalCalif 1 year ago
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John Wayne-what an idiot!
Deguello321 1 year ago
John Wayne-just another dumb actor
Deguello321 1 year ago
He may have been a fricken Nazi or a Commie or a God dam werewolf for all I know? But he preached for a free Republic and a ton of Americans were influenced by him. What he did out weighs what he might have been I think.
VideoGameAddicted2 1 year ago
Westerns are not about racism or the superiority of any type of person. A western is about man living in a hostile enviroment and having to rely on themselves. John Wayne movies were not racist, and people who bitch about westerns obviously do not care for them. Do not try to demonize something because you do not like or understand it.
mjm412010 1 year ago
@mjm412010 Well said... I cannot understand how anyone who has seen his movies could think he was racist. He often took up the defense of the American indian in his movies and portrayed their abusers as the bad guys... the trolls make no sense. He understood the concept of America and what it meant to be free. I wish more people felt like he did.
eternalwolf777 1 year ago
@eternalwolf777 Calling someone a troll because they don't think the way you do underlies a two-dimensional view of reality.
bobolith 1 year ago
@bobolith And your weak-response to my overall statement only underlies your inability to stick to the subject. After looking over a number of your comments on a thread for John Wayne movie fans, it is clear that you are in fact one of the trolls I spoke of before. Spend less time criticizing other people's choices, and go live out your own life.
eternalwolf777 1 year ago
@mjm412010 Obviously you don't understand the reason people don't like those westerns. It is mythology about the WHITE man living in a hostile environment. You don't see too many westerns where natives are being surrounded by hostile white men and overcoming them with guts, grit or ingenuity. That wouldn't agree with american mythology. Take your own advice and don't try to belittle others' opinions if you don't understand them.
bobolith 1 year ago
@bobolith First, I did not try to belittle the opinons of others. If it come off that way I apologize. I was mainly trying to adress people calling the actor a "Pussy" or a "nazi" without good reasoning. Second, there aren't that many movies about Indians in the position of the protagonist. To me this sad, but I doubt there would have been much of a market for such a movie. Also, such a situtation would be harder to write since there were not too many Native Americans in that position.
mjm412010 1 year ago
@bobolith There are also John Wayne movies that show a respect for the Native American. McClintock, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon are two that come to mind. Finally, if someone wants to dislike the genre for a good reason; fine. There is room for disagreement and debate, but there is not reason for outrageous and offensive comments.
mjm412010 1 year ago
Jony Wayne was a nazi!!!! He was a pussy who had no common sense. He can suck my cock. Atleast he's dead!
bouncingsouls100 1 year ago
@bouncingsouls100 So you are saying you like men sucking your dick? Sick Faggot!
dslmc 1 year ago
@bouncingsouls100
1. Yeah, you're right. Wayne was a devout beliver of National Socialism in Germany.
2. What do you mean he had no common sense? Did you know him?
3. You don't have a cock.
4. You're happy a fellow human being is dead? Who is the Nazi now?
AmericanOutlaw87 1 year ago
LOL YALL KNOW JOHN WAYNE WAS AN ARAB RIGHT LMAO
3268right 1 year ago
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MASH2222 1 year ago 2
@MASH2222 Perhaps real men don't need fake heroes. It's likely that you're the sissy.
bobolith 1 year ago
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FUCK YOU HE WAS NOT A RACIST YOU ARE YOU PUSSY
freeburg100 1 year ago
I only wish that the Duke could have lived long enough to have been President. He represented America and honestly, as a man, he lived the words he said.
God Bless the Wayne (Morrison) family, and may someone like the Duke come forth and save what we have left in this nation.
JamesP444 1 year ago
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John Wayne was a racist elitist.
bobolith 1 year ago
@bobolith and you're a pussy.
cyberwing777 1 year ago
@bobolith she will its name is sara
SuperAfter7 1 year ago
@bobolith I'd like to see how many "people" would agree with you. I'm sure only cowards like you, who refuse to see the truth, will be at your funeral.
copper116 1 year ago
@copper116 I have to admit, your comment stumps me. First, I have no idea why you put the word "people" in quotations. Strange. Secondly, you don't know me and yet you call me a coward and talk about my funeral. Stranger. I suppose I hurt your feelings by commenting that your hero was a racist. Well, he was, plain and simple. His livelihood rested on making fantasy westerns that grossly misrepresented the american natives and glorified the hero-cowboy (himself). Some hero.
bobolith 1 year ago
@bobolith: You claim John Wayne was a racist based on what facts? Your opinion? I assume you had long intimate talks with him & know his heart 1st hand? I suspect the truth is that you didn't agree with his political views so you resort to name calling. Apparently you don't like the idea of a Republic...
rjbaun 1 year ago
@rjbaun I claim he was a racist based on the fact that his movies espoused the view of white privilege. They did nothing to shed light on the real history of America. They made life more difficult for american Natives. Remember when Sacheen Littlefeather accepted Brando's academy award for Godfather? Apparently John Wayne had to be held back from physically assaulting her. Even if he wouldn't have assaulted her physically, his anger over her message is quite telling.
bobolith 1 year ago
@bobolith: White privilege? It was a war between cultures like countless others that have occurred since man 1st drew breath. Just as the American Indians who came from Asia ~20000 years ago & drove the native Americans into So/Central America. Why is the 1 war between the US & the Indians singled out? I think it fits into your "America is evil" mindset. As to the charges against JW, I take those with a grain of salt as libs often defame in an attempt to silence anyone with whom they disagree.
rjbaun 4 months ago
@rjbaun It seems that Sacheen Littlefeather (and Brando - in addition to countless Natives) were opposed to the way Natives were portrayed in the movies, and I suppose John Wayne felt threatened by that. After all, when you make a career out of propagating a 'patriotic' myth about america's early days - banging the gong of white privilege and being called a hero for it - anyone who publicly tries to burst that balloon would be threatening. Yes, he was very much an elitist.
bobolith 1 year ago