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Give me a break. Wayne made thirteen movies during the war....only four were war movies. Not exactly pouring himself into the war effort.
A shoulder injury kept him out? My father's brother was blind in one eye and fought to get into the Marines. The took him as an instructor. He stayed stateside but he spent three years actually 'pouring himself into the war effort' instead of finishing college. I believe that Wayne might have had a bit more influence than a 19 year old Irish kid from Queens. Too bad he didn't use it.
Well, I said that Ronald Reagan said it differently than you and you get offended. I personally have no idea what happened and will reserve judgement.
And, oh by the way, my uncle died in the war effort and several others served faithfully too. My father was at several points in the pacific and was in Nagasaki a few days after the bomb.