“How do you know he didn’t do some boozing and womanizing? “
He absolutely did. I can say that because one of his old girlfriends used to live near me. The John Wayne Marina, owned by his family, is 20 minutes from my house and was one of his favorite harbors. Be that as it may, a generation of youth looked up to him, in fantasy I am sure, as we did many other folks.
Though many of those role models & childhood heros back then had their problems, being a doper was not publicly acceptable as it apparently is today. I see that as a problem.
I don’t think that our favorite swimmer is a lowlife for smoking dope, I see him as a fool and a hypocrite in his actions. Frankly, I don’t give a hoot if folks want to smoke dope until it’s coming out of their ears, I just don’t think excuses or acceptance should be given to them, especially when it is our country’s children that are watching all of this.
He chose the role of setting an example, he gets paid very well for it... he failed in my view, and should suffer the consequences of his foolishness, that’s all.
I am now 60, so maybe it’s all ok now, after all, Obama was/is a crack head, and Clinton smoked dope, and it was even ok for him to rape and make B/J’s ok for children to talk about, or worse.....
I like the world I came from much better that the one created by those in charge of perception building and example setting today.
As for your Saint comment. I hold that ALL men have been in rooms that they wouldn’t have wanted to had died in, myself included, in fact, I have been in many of those rooms, but I am nobody famous, I was nothing in my life...just an honest man and good dad, that’s all.