In the movie "Argo,"about the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, Alan Arkin lamented that John Wayne had only been dead a few months and America looked IMPOTENT regarding that crisis. A lot of people felt that way after "The Duke" passed away 40 years ago today. He was a symbol of rugged masculinity and it's amazing that he still has so much appeal TODAY even as "Pride" flags fly over our U.S. embassies abroad, advertising how sissified we've become and perhaps even provoking radical elements of Islam to attack us AGAIN, this time for how we promote Homosexuality.
In my recent Facebook post on John Wayne's BIRTHDAY, I wrote the following:
"The Duke" never served in the military, but he had tremendous respect for our armed forces and for ALL Veterans, living and dead!! I'm honored to have two friends who call me "Duke" NOT because I'm the macho man HE was but because I, too, never served yet feel like HE did about those who do and those who did.
There will never be another John Wayne, that's for sure!! He'd have (correctly) scorned an athlete who was born a man yet tried to pretend he'd changed to a woman. "What's so bad about bein' a man that you'd wanna change?" I can hear him say. He'd have openly rebuked those who chose to "take a knee" as their protest, while upholding their right TO protest.
And the only flag that HE would associate with (a legitimate form of) "pride" was, and always WILL be, the AMERICAN flag. "That's all, pilgrim!!"
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