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Happy Birthday, Duke (100th Anniversary of John Wayne's Birth)
American Spectator ^
| 5/24/07
| Larry Thornberry
Posted on 05/27/2007 12:18:54 PM PDT by wagglebee
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Happy Birthday to one of the greatest Americans ever!
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posted on
05/27/2007 12:18:56 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
To: wagglebee
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posted on
05/27/2007 12:20:17 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
I really miss that guy. He is the best, I am lucky to have seen his movies in my lifetime.He loved my country, my flag , our system of government and just plan Americans. He is up in Heaven looking down at us and saying what the heck happened down there!
To: wagglebee
One of a kind, indeed. Right up there with baseball and apple pie, John Wayne.
To: wagglebee
If the Duke had just taken better care of himself, like maybe not smoking four packs of cigarettes a day for decades, he would turn 100 on Saturday.
What a disgustintg first line. I hope when Princess Di’s 100 comes around they say, “If the slut was not dating a muslim in Paris instead of watching her children, she may have made it to her 100th birthday.” UGH!!! I am usually not too hard on the media but they are bullies and a holes!!!
To: betsyross1776
And it is possible to fly from Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC and land at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA — that is as patriotic as you can get!
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posted on
05/27/2007 12:33:09 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: napscoordinator
I agree, that statement had no place in the story.
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posted on
05/27/2007 12:34:26 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
It would be hard to find a better entertainment buy than some classic Duke such as: Red River, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon .... Sands of Iwo Jima, The Quiet Man, Hondo, Rio Bravo, The Horse Soldiers, In Harm's Way, True Grit, The Cowboys, Rooster Cogburn, The Shootist, et al.In 100 years, Americans will still be watching John Wayne movies from sea to shining sea.
![](http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j235/johnv1953/EthanEdwards.jpg)
"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be."
~~~ John Wayne
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posted on
05/27/2007 12:37:13 PM PDT
by
Reagan Man
(FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
To: wagglebee
Happy Birthday to a great American...
Thank you Duke...
I still love your movies...
You were a REAL American.......
To: wagglebee
Too bad the Duke isn’t around so he could knock the sh!t out of rosie,clintons,a.baldwin and the like.The good Lord don’t make many actors like him anymore.He lives on forever in memory.R.I.P. Duke.
To: wagglebee
To: wagglebee
He was one of the great actors of our time and a true inspiration to us all.
RIP, Duke. We miss you.
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posted on
05/27/2007 1:28:36 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Put illegal immigrants on ICE)
To: wagglebee
I read something once that claimed that the cancer that killed John Wayne was not from smoking but from resulting from his being downwind of some above-ground atomic testing (carried out in Nevada while he was in southern Utah filming a movie). I’m not sure if that is true.
To: wagglebee; All
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posted on
05/27/2007 1:59:08 PM PDT
by
alpha-8-25-02
("SAVED BY GRACE AND GRACE ALONE")
To: Verginius Rufus
I’m not sure, but I thought it was stomach and/or intestinal cancer that killed him.
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posted on
05/27/2007 2:05:13 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Reagan Man
It would be hard to find a better entertainment buy than some classic Duke such as: Red River, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon .... Sands of Iwo Jima, The Quiet Man, Hondo, Rio Bravo, The Horse Soldiers, In Harm's Way, True Grit, The Cowboys, Rooster Cogburn, The Shootist, et al.I know you copied/pasted the above, but I think it's great that your photo comes, I believe, from his greatest Western, "The Searchers"; not mentioned above.
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posted on
05/27/2007 2:48:55 PM PDT
by
bcsco
To: Verginius Rufus
It was a movie he made about Ghengis Khan in the 1950s. It was filmed in Utah or some place like that near where the bomb. I understand quite a few who were involved with making that flick came down with cancer. But since actors in those days smoke liked chimneys (usually, unfiltered Camels or Luckies), and drank hard liquor like water, I don’t know if, statistically, it can be proven.
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posted on
05/27/2007 3:54:16 PM PDT
by
attiladhun2
(Islam is a despotism so vile that it would warm the heart of Orwell's Big Brother)
To: wagglebee
My high school alma mater's most famous grad (Glendale High School, CA).
As a teenager, we had family friends with a weekend home on ritzy and expensive Balboa Island, and they'd point out his "yacht"....huge, and I vaguely recall being told it was a refurbed/converted naval ship (PT boat, maybe?) of some sort.
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posted on
05/27/2007 4:01:21 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
To: ErnBatavia
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posted on
05/27/2007 4:11:06 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
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posted on
05/28/2007 5:57:37 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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