Apparently he said some non-PC things in a 1970 interview that has social media demanding his memorials be renamed. Will they demand his movies be banned too? Isn't this great? Don't you just love having a Fascist Mob deciding all of our heroes and history must be expunged?
Social media trolls recently honed in on a new target of attack. The same agitators that consistently seek to tear down statues, ban books, and silence dissidents have now dug up an interview with …
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He was fake. Just like Trump. Ha Ha Ha!
He was a real American. Just like Trump. Ha Ha Ha!
The leftist movies of today are ass and the best of them can't even begin to hold a candle to the worst John Wayne movie.
They can't even come up with an original movie, have to rehash older films because they got no juice.
JW never served. An actor only. John Ford and others razzed him about not serving so he could get jobs when other were away.
^^^ Haters Gonna Hate ^^^
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). Wayne repeatedly wrote to John Ford saying he wanted to enlist, on one occasion inquiring whether he could get into Ford's military unit, but consistently kept postponing it until after "he finished just one or two pictures".
[35] Wayne did not attempt to prevent his reclassification as 1-A (draft eligible), but
Republic Studios was emphatically resistant to losing him since he was their only A-list actor under contract.
Herbert J. Yates, President of Republic, threatened Wayne with a lawsuit if he walked away from his contract,
[36] and Republic Pictures intervened in the Selective Service process, requesting Wayne's further deferment.
[37]
U.S. National Archives records indicate that Wayne, in fact, did make an application
[38] to serve in the
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor to the modern
CIA, and had been accepted within the U.S. Army's allotted billet to the OSS.
William J. Donovan, OSS Commander, wrote Wayne a letter informing him of his acceptance into the Field Photographic Unit, but the letter went to his estranged wife Josephine's home. She never told him about it. Wayne toured U.S. bases and hospitals in the South Pacific for three months in 1943 and 1944.
[39] with the
USO.
[40][41][42] During this trip, he carried out a request from Donovan to assess whether General
Douglas MacArthur, commander of the
South West Pacific Area, or his staff were hindering the work of the OSS.
[19]:88 Donovan later issued Wayne an OSS Certificate of Service to memorialize Wayne's contribution to the OSS mission.
[19]:88
[43]
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