I am sure that there were better actors..... and I am sure there were those who were seen as better heroes. He just happened to be one my Papa enjoyed. You apparently do not like him, and that is fine. Papa saw him as a patriot and one can not dispute his love for America. No, he is nothing like what you see today.... he was a man of a time that has unfortunately passed and gave way to the gays, anti-Americans, and pro-socialist. No... it will be years before Hollywood will once again see America as more than a corrupt and suffering nation and people. I now give you a poem written by Written by John Mitchum that was once recited by John Wayne:
You ask me Why I Love Her?
Well, give me time. I'll explain.
Have you seen a Kansas sunset
Or an Arizona rain?
Have you drifted on a bayou
Down Louisiana way?
Have you watched a cold fog drifting
Over San Francisco Bay?
Have you heard a bobwhite calling
In the Carolina pines,
Or heard the bellow of a diesel
At the Appalachia mines?
Does the call of Niagara thrill you
When you hear her waters roar?
Do you look with awe and wonder
At her Massachusetts shore...
Where men who braved a hard new world
First stepped on Plymouth's rock?
And, do you think of them when you stroll
Along a New York City dock?
Have you seen a snowflake drifting
In the Rockies, way up high?
Have you seen the sun come blazing down
From a bright Nevada sky?
Do you hail to the Columbia
As she rushes to the sea?
Or bow your head at Gettysburg
At our struggle to be free?
Have you seen the mighty Tetons?
Have you watched an eagle soar?
Have you seen the Mississippi
Roll along Missouri's shore?
Have you felt a chill at Michigan
When on a winter's day
Her waters rage along the shore
In thunderous display?
Does the word "Aloha" make you warm?
Do you stare in disbelief
When you see the surf
Come roaring in at Waimea Reef?
From Alaska's cold to the Everglades,
From the Rio Grande to Maine,
My heart cries out, my pulse runs fast
At the might of her domain!
You ask me why I love her?
I've a million reasons why ---
My Beautiful America,
Beneath God's wide, wide sky.
Nickolai wrote:
That's funny I figured out years ago H\John Wayne was a conservative cult hero. The guy couldn't act for beans he just played himself, his only facial expression was moving his eyebrows from down to up