john wayne speaking

[l921428x]

in 1974 i was 17.
listen to this oratory. could have been said yesterday!!!!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...go-might-help/

[samiam]

John Wayne the WW2 draft dodger?

[Schuetzenman]

John Wayne the WW2 draft dodger?

I've read and heard this information before from film and biography sources. this bit is borrowed from wiki.

America's entry into World War II resulted in a deluge of support for the war effort from all sectors of society, and Hollywood was no exception. 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). He repeatedly wrote John Ford saying he wanted to enlist, on one occasion enquiring whether he could get into Ford's military unit, but consistently kept postponing it until after "he finished just one or two pictures".[28] Wayne did not attempt to prevent his reclassification as 1-A (draft eligible), but Republic Studios was emphatically resistant to losing him; Herbert J. Yates, President of Republic, threatened Wayne with a lawsuit if he walked away from his contract[29] and Republic Pictures intervened in the Selective Service process, requesting Wayne's further deferment.[30]

Wayne toured U.S. bases and hospitals in the South Pacific for three months in 1943 and 1944.[31] By many accounts, Wayne's failure to serve in the military was the most painful experience of his life.[32] His widow later suggested that his patriotism in later decades sprang from guilt, writing: "He would become a 'superpatriot' for the rest of his life trying to atone for staying home."[33]

I wouldn't call him a draft dodger. Name stars that enlisted were face pieces used to garner support with Mr. and Mrs. America anyway. Had he gone in he'd never been anywhere near fighting IMO.

[N/A]

John Wayne the WW2 draft dodger?

OK, lets hear you recite your military record before you start casting stones.

[Ruskiegunlover]

No CLINTON is a draft dodger. And KERRY is a fucking coward who joined not out of love for our country or a feeling of duty but because he wanted eventually to use the xperience to become our fuhrer....I would never put wayne in that group.