“She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.” The scene in the post’s graveyard where Capt. Nathan Brittles (John Wayne) talks to his late wife, and later, when Capt. Brittles receives the retirement watch from his cavalry troop.
You just reminded me of another one which made me tear up just a little.
“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence” when Jimmy Stewart returns as an old Senator and John Wayne who loved Stewart’s Wife is dead.
For some reason I can’t recall the character’s names.
John Ford knew how to make me didn't he.
Might as well add, Wee Willie, Winkey when Victor McLaughlin was dying and Shirley Temple sang him Auld Lang Syne
5:50 on tape.
get your hankey ready.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGf3neqrn18