Posted on 08/12/2012 11:48:03 AM PDT by DFG
You do know that there are counter-arguments about what you have posted and they don’t put Mr. Morrison in a good light. I’m a tired OldPossum tonight and just don’t feel like going into it.
He wasn't "impersonating heroes." It's called acting. And he was good at it. He set out to take on their persona in real life. He just was a convincing actor. He was genuinely patriotic and supported our troops and nation.
I know what deconstruction by the left means, but rather than merely knowing about it, or recognizing some arguments against Wayne and his patriotism, you give the impression of being a little dedicated to the worst possible claims.
John Wayne seems to be on your against list.
It looks a bit different now downtown. They took out the trees and put all of the electric lines underground. It looks really nice, but I do miss the trees.
Super story, and what a marriage they seemed to have.
That P-38 is a nice plane. Lucky man. ;)
Enjoyable read. Thank you!
They were married for just under 70 years when Mother died. Daddy lived until he was 90. Daddy sent Christmas cards to several of his war buddies. I remember only a couple of years before Daddy died, he got one from the last one who was alive.
He told Daddy he had gone blind and probably would not live to send another Christmas card. Sure enough, that was the last one Daddy got. He was in a nursing home himself so Daddy might not have had a good enough memory to reply to it even if Welsh (his buddy) had sent one.
I have said it before and probably will always be able to say that Mother was the best person I ever knew. Then I also remember that Daddy’s work was what allowed Mother to show that incredible love to her family.
All of which conduce to the finding that Ronald Reagan was an exceptionally upright man, a man of truthful genuine character, who took his "marching orders" from his Christian convictions.
Thank you so very much for putting these details into the record, here!
No, it was a P-38 can opener. Actually it was a P-38 made by Walther which I think is preferred to the ones made at other factories. His Luger was a 1917 DWM. I suspect the .32 was an Fegyvergyar.
When I look at Reagan’s military history, I see a guy who loved the military.
In the 1930s the military had nothing going for it, they were seen as bums and no-goods, and there was no money in it, for Reagan to have quietly become a part of it years before WWII, and years before the wave of patriotism changed it’s status, shows where he was inside, although he never went to the war zone, it is clear that he was a gung-ho warrior at heart.
I think we have to assume that his Calvary unit was a combat arms unit, I have searched a lot for what kind of unit they were, and at the present, I have to go with that.
If anyone finds anything else, please ping me.
It's been said that ‘amateurs talk tactics but professionals talk logistics.
An army can't continue to fight without the support.
That's exactly why Eisenhower was put in charge as supreme commander during WWII. He understood what was needed to support the troops engaged in combat.
Most people don't know that Eisenhowers rank as a five star general wasn't a permanent rank. His permanent rank was as either a lt. Colonel or full Colonel.
He was put in command strictly because he was the ONLY person fully capable of coordinating ALL aspects of the war, ESPECIALLY the logistics.
He alone had the tools to ensure that the troops who needed the supplies got them. He understood how to keep the supplies flowing and how to distribute them.
He was never recognized as a great tactictician, but a great leader capable of bringing all the efforts together to achieve the necessary results.
Left to their own devices Patton and Montgomery would have taken the vast percentage of the war material leaving the other efforts starved. Patton and Montgomery would have each pursued their own goals maximizing their own glory and the total war effort would have suffered.
Absolutely correct, however, Audie was FIRST a soldier and after leaving the military became an actor.
He wasn’t an actor who happened to enter the Army, the Army was first and foremost.
I just this past week finished listening to the audiobook, “Patton, by Martin Blumenson.
I completely agree with your analysis. Patton was highly successful because Eisenhower kept him on a short leash and knew exactly how to best use Patton's considerable talents.
A friend of mine’s dad was coming home on a troop ship with a sack of Lugers and Walthers. They constantly made announcements about the penalties for contraband. A day or two out of New York, he got scared and dropped them overboard. Ship docked, Navy said see ya, and everybody walked off without getting searched. Whoops.
I agree that the movie was, well, horribly tacky in many ways, but it still got some good points across, and partly because of what John Wayne did with the script he worked with. Still, it did portray our guys as the good guys, and that deserves credit.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for those fascinating insights, dearest sister in Christ!
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