truly excellent .... the video in this link my not mean much to younger folks but to those of us who have been alive for a while, its great
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Great find! I will definitely have to show that video to my wife.
Those days weren't perfect by any stretch, but there's much that I miss.
Thanks for posting!
Those days weren't perfect by any stretch, but there's much that I miss.
Thanks for posting!
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hmmm… if I remember correctly, John Wayne didn't serve in WWII.
Ann Margret was so good looking back then 
as is the case in every war, some serve in the military, some serve on farms and ranches feeding the country, some serve in factories, some serve in raising money, some serve raising support for the troops .... there are many types of service
If I remember right JW or MM blew
up his knee in college football making him ineligible for the
Military.....
Here's what I found on The Duke;
"When the Duke was a young man he wanted to attend Annapolis (the Navy Military Academy) but was unable to win an appointment from his state's Senator. When he was awarded a scholarship to the University of Southern California he went there to play football. The Duke was 34 when World War II started and the father of 4 children so he was exempted from the draft. If he was to volunteer his medical examination showed that he would have needed to seek a wavier for his bad ankle something that was not being granted until much later in the war and never for combat troops. The Duke's bosses at Republic Pictures also convinced him that he would be needed on the home front to fight the battle of morale and he won that battle. There were those (the director John Ford for one) who criticized the Duke for not pushing for a medical wavier, but consider this fact. When Marine Corps recruiting was critically down following World War II the Marine Corps Commandant personally asked John Wayne to make "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949). Recruitment went through the roof and he received a personal thank you from the Commandant and a special citation of merit. Later his support of the Korean and Vietnam soldiers (visiting them in the field and in the hospital) is legendary. Most of Hollywood's elite believed he ruined his career by supporting the Vietnam War and making the "The Green Berets" (1968) but he never hid his desire to support his nation and those who served it. He was even at the homecoming for the Vietnam POW and met the man whose name he had on his POW bracelet. John Wayne was a man who understood what being a soldier was all about. He understood love of country, devotion to duty and sacrifice. Sure maybe he never served but he never brought shame to any uniform he put on. Thanks Duke!"
"When the Duke was a young man he wanted to attend Annapolis (the Navy Military Academy) but was unable to win an appointment from his state's Senator. When he was awarded a scholarship to the University of Southern California he went there to play football. The Duke was 34 when World War II started and the father of 4 children so he was exempted from the draft. If he was to volunteer his medical examination showed that he would have needed to seek a wavier for his bad ankle something that was not being granted until much later in the war and never for combat troops. The Duke's bosses at Republic Pictures also convinced him that he would be needed on the home front to fight the battle of morale and he won that battle. There were those (the director John Ford for one) who criticized the Duke for not pushing for a medical wavier, but consider this fact. When Marine Corps recruiting was critically down following World War II the Marine Corps Commandant personally asked John Wayne to make "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949). Recruitment went through the roof and he received a personal thank you from the Commandant and a special citation of merit. Later his support of the Korean and Vietnam soldiers (visiting them in the field and in the hospital) is legendary. Most of Hollywood's elite believed he ruined his career by supporting the Vietnam War and making the "The Green Berets" (1968) but he never hid his desire to support his nation and those who served it. He was even at the homecoming for the Vietnam POW and met the man whose name he had on his POW bracelet. John Wayne was a man who understood what being a soldier was all about. He understood love of country, devotion to duty and sacrifice. Sure maybe he never served but he never brought shame to any uniform he put on. Thanks Duke!"
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Thanks Coss for your post and information about the "Duke". I appreciate it.
<in a long southern drawl> no problem pilgrim, glad you liked it .........