I think John Wayne summed it up very well in his last movie, “The Shootist”:
“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to others, and I expect the same from them.”
John Wayne, George Patton, William F. Halsey, Chesty Puller, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee: My heroes.
I attended the Kanaab Western Legends Round Up last year (2008) in Kanaab Utah. There were a number of my heroes attending, but my wife and I went mainly to met Clint Walker aka ‘Cheyenne Bodie’ and a hero of both of us and good Christian Gentleman. We also met Ty Harden aka Bronco Lane and Hugh O’Brian aka Wyatt Earp, both of who are strong Christian Gentlemen as well.
One thing they all had in common was how they despised what Hollywood has become. I had a hope a couple years ago when AMC did the movie ‘Broken Trail’ and it did super ratings as well as great reviews with the critics that maybe we would see a turn-around, but no AMC just came back with more tales of ‘broken’ heroes as in ‘Mad Men’ and ‘Breaking Bad’ neither of which I have the least interest in watching.