My favorite

@James Henderson - According to other sites, the answer is not so black and white: scribol.com/lifestyle/nostalgia-lifestyle/john-wayne-never-served-wwii/21/

@James Henderson- Not really, those deferments were readily available for other men who had young children. He is just more famous than most who used that option. It was an available at the beginning of the war, but there are methods to the madness. They could have been a later deterrent if they were needed and at first, it looked pretty bleak for the US in the early days of the war. Many guys who were judged 4F due to previous injuries or inability to serve for variety of reasons, my wife's grandfather being one of them, who was told he couldn't serve in the active military but he still served in the home guard. They could have very much been needed if Japan was able to land enough combat forces in the lower 48. Floyd [my wife's GF] was so proud of his machine gunner first class medal that he made sure to show it to me after his GD and I married in 1985. He had been a journeyman electrician who helped build McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, KS, and other places before and during the war. He was injured when low flying bombers shook him off his hanger scaffolding and he ended up forceably straddling a pipe. He told me once he didn't need both of 'them' to shoot a machine gun. After the war, he helped wire missile silos during the cold war out west. He stood 5-foot 2-inches and was tough nails. You've got to love a man like that. When he passed, I made sure to tuck one of my Desert Storm combat patches in his hands before he was lowered into the ground. I sure miss that man. God Bless Floyd and give Goldie a hug for us. Mstrdiver - US Army 1973 to 1995

@@mstrdiver Yeah, Excuses,Excuses, like 'Bone Spurs"

Well big John never saddled up for ww2....

Duke was a honorable person.

@@DonaldWSmith-kt8bv yup

yep. and yea Can'Not fix stupid. a Gun to a knife fight. Dude fails. ,,,poor bastatd. pitiful poke.

That’s great stuff 🇺🇸🍻🇺🇸🍻🇺🇸🍻🇺🇸🍻

Woo-wee, tough guy!!☠☠

Great quote. What movie is this from, or was it from an interview?

@@albertchin1050 The Shootist. His final role in his last movie.

@@swan21868 Thanks. I remember seeing that movie, but I forgot that's where that quote came from. Thanks for reminding me. I remember how sad it made me to know that the character he was playing was dying of cancer, and at the same time, Wayne himself was actually dying of cancer in real life. I thought that movie was a fitting tribute to him, and a good farewell from him to his fans.

It is an injustice that Wayne didn’t win a Best Actor Award for his portrayal of J.B. Books in this character study. I think it was his best role as an actor.

Dude, Wayne didn't come up with that. It was written for him in the script. Besides, he's a cheap version of the wild west. Nothin but a chump.

True

Yup

viva la libertad carajo jajaja

@Yih Dzelonh Calm down.

@Yih Dzelonh pompous ass

steve hale that’s so sweet 🙂

That's great

WOW to get a letter from John Wayne, what a treasure you have. John was A GREAT MAN. GOD BLESS HIM .

I wish I could give two thumbs up on this one! America has gone down hill because we lack real people who can fearlessly stand up to the commie bastards, oh I mean the democrats who want to put socialism upon us. Trump 2020!!!

@@johnogara3029 Wish the Duke was still around, God knows America could use a helping hand! We still have a fighter in Trump, Trump 2024!!!

What being a man is

@@howardculbertson8575 See above Comment about being "a man."

LairdDougal thank you for the information. I never took the time to research this man, just never cared for his attitude in movies although I admit he starred in several movies I enjoyed as well written, good movies. Just my personal distaste for this actor, without real cause. Always figured it was simply his conceit, loving himself so much his arrogance sickened me. Perhaps your story explains it better, with my coming from a military family whose Dad served in WW2. I did not choose that life or steer my son in that direction either after relocating, but appreciate all who have chosen that life. I’m grateful we now have an all volunteer situation thanks to those who have fought and died for such freedom for our nation to become that free. I still pray that we stay this way by staying united and one nation under God. If we lose these two things, all bets are off. Not political and not a religious statement, just my opinion. GBU

Amen to that

The left would hang him in the square. An airport in CA has been renamed because it was named for John Wayne. Even cancelling The Duke. Only the Lord can help us.

My personal fav!

that's why Trump and his cult have such a hard time every single day

@@stevenm3823 That's funny as Biden enters his fifth month from hiding out in his basement, and now has the delusion of grandeur that he's actually going to debate Donald

@@destroygaryfunky7053 thanks for proving my point

@@destroygaryfunky7053 and he still is beating Trump by over ten points in every poll....and I hope he does debate that idiot Trump cause he would destroy him....Trump proved back in 2016 that he is a horrible debater...all he has is childish name calling and insults, besides that he has nothing to offer except his massive ignorance when it comes to every issue.

"Uncase the colors, Mr. Coehill..."

@@TheBatjac1 that was was the first john wayne movie I ever watched and I've loved him ever since

Draw a line and stand on one side or the other, The Duke left no doubt about which side he stood, ever

John Wayne's album, "America, Why I love Her," is full of these quotes. It is well worth listening to and pondering.

@@mstrdiver ok thanks

Dont let Chuck Norris hear you say that..... Oh wait, too late. Nice knowing you.

John Wayne was actually a terrible actor he was just good for America, we could use some more of him right now

You obviously know very little about acting...

@@md7999 I think you misunderstood me you're right I know very little about acting I just don't think he was a good actor as good actors go but he was great for America at the time Hollywood didn't want an actor they wanted a hero at the time and John Wayne was it

@@md7999but you're right he was just himself and that was a good thing

I don't know how old you are but I was there in the 40s and 50s I remember the time it was right after world war II and America wanted heroes on the big screen, but as far as great acting goes he was terrible

Neo fought gallantly against The Matrix and read out some cool lines, but I don't see anyone proclaiming Keanu Reeves as some sort of patriotic champion of the human race. Learn to distinguish reality from movies.

Mining Golds Maybe in time, Keanu will be remembered in that way? "Bill and Ted" kicked azz.... George Carlin is a patriotic champion...RUFUS! and "Wyld Stallyn" rocks! While I understand what you meant about reality... more important yet. "Learn to distinguish reality from written history.'

You're sadly right, liz; we have NOTHING now! God Bless The DUKE!!!!!!!!!

Nils Skudaarkaat Is Liz your sockpuppet? Regardless I still see a lot of retards struggling to seperate movie characters reading their lines from draft-dodging alcoholic actors. Clearly critical thinking isn't being taught in schools these days.

Nils Skudaarkaat racist, just like Wayne.

Im a young guy but there's time's I wish I lived in the golden age of cinema not this crap we see today.

@@chuckr1200 Chuck you can still watch all the great movies from the golden era.

At 72, still watching John Wayne and enjoying his movies.

Yep. that's Being Lazy Matters all right.

Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club I’ll vouch for that!

@Mary Trout You have to be kidding! Trump has shown himself to be totally ignorant regarding the Bible, geography, history, foreign affairs, ad infinitum. He is, without a doubt, the least qualified and least presidential of anyone who has ever held the office. He's a narcissistic egotist with delusions of self worth and a national embarrassment....and I'm a Republican!

@Bo Zo Agreed...the lesser of two evils. The same will be the case this November. This Rebublican is voting for Biden

@Bo Zo Better her than Trump! Better ANYBODY but that moronic narcissistic egotist with delusions of self-worth. YOU wake up. Trump is a national embarrassment worldwide.

+Kevin Waller I've just started watching his Westerns recently, I remember a lot of them from when I was a kid and my Dad used to watch em.

That's OK because our "brothers across the pond are the best" and we did enjoy a lot of like entertainment common to our causes together, just as we Yanks enjoyed many British actors of the day - I salute you sir!

He was in the THE greatest western ever made.True Grit not the Searchers.Thats at number 3 after the Wild Bunch.

David Gibbs Don't sell Clint Eastwood short either. "The Outlaw Josey Wales" is just one of excellent westerns he directed and starred in.

Agreed.The Good The Bad and the Ugly number 4.Wales 5.I am also quite fond of High Plains Drifter but not sure it would be in my top twenty.Unforgiven of course would be.

Yet he was a terrible judge of women.

kurt Knispel Was there for the 50th anniversary of True Grit. Got to see Ashley Campbell , Glenn’s daughter perform. The parade through town for John was fantastic. A great little town Winterset.

This is what being an american means; a christian God fearing patriot. God bless you sir.

Amen.

Richard Misel jr not just America, I think the whole world lost out. 1000 tv channels, oh look a John Wayne movie, break out the 🍺 and 🍿. From a True Brit. No apologies for the bad pun even though it was unintentional. Raise a glass to the Duke 🥃

@@kimothy1701 Agreed. There will never be another Duke.

Yep, I agree Michael Madsen in the movie Donnie Brasco related our sentiments in American Shakespeare 🇺🇸 Thanks for sharing, thanks to Ya'll for your comments.

Squirtnik Killington You keep going. All good. All the best.

What celebrity indeed. How few there are who have worked for it. The rest are phonies.

- Hey, take picture of the gravesite, one with the headstone and one looking out over the ocean and post a link somewhere. I doubt I will ever see his grave but the thought is good.

Where is this place. I'd like 2 visit him, 2 pay my respects.😎

YA HE WAS MAN ENOUGH TO ADMIT THAT. = NOW LOOK AT AT THE PEOPLE. = THEY BURN CITY'S DOWN = DESTROY BUSINESSES. = MURDER = BECAUSE = THEY DINT GET THERE WAY = MAYBE THEY SHOULD = ACT LIKE MATURE CITIZENS AND NOT = SPOILED IDIOTS = CANT FIX STUPID

@@richardc6932He sure as hell would have.

The Elvis Presley of the acting profession.

Trump said that! Wonder what John Wayne would say to that.

Duke, your the best and never be replaced. See you in Heaven. Rich

My mother used to say the Betty Davis one all the time.

I Remember one By John>>>> Talk Low, Talk Slow, and don't Talk too Much !!!!

I've always been kinda partial to pick axe handles, but a good shot to the shin bone is all you need to end the fight, the SOB is a one legged man at a ass kicking contest after that and he's hurting real bad, too. ( if hes not on the ground holding that leg, which he probably is)

George Kennedy Was a True Patriot, Just Like the Duke !!!! A Good Man !!!!

LOL. He avoided joining the military in WWII while other stars like Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable served.

@Jim Barrows Nope. He was 34 when draft registration occured and used his age & family situation to avoid service not an injury. Nice try. Go worship real heroes. Gable, Stewart and Fonda went Wayne didn't. The word is "chickenshit".

@@airb2804 In other words, you are saying he used legal means. Or someone did on his behalf. Hint: it was his studio.

Martin Walker well said friend couldn’t put it better

makes sense for sure!!

"when you say 3 Mr , you will never hear the man count 10 "

"I'm feelin' fresh as a daisy!" "Oh, really? Ya look more like a black-eyed susan!"

Agree 😀

@David Gretlein Thanks David. I think in today's atmosphere, it would be difficult to be a Wayne fan and identify as a Democrat. Maybe I'm wrong, but no Republican wants to re-name the L.A. airport, or shrills against Wayne's "toxic masculinity". The leftists like to portray American males today like the guy sitting at the table in the "Hey look, safe drivers save 40%" commercial. That ain't me...

It had to be the longest fight scene ever.

John Wayne was a hard-nosed Marine sergeant, a naval lieutenant and a commander of an airborne battalion during the invasion of Normandy. But those were his movies. Wayne never served a day in the US military and has long been accused of being a ‘draft dodger’ because he staunchly avoided putting on a uniform and going to war when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. The truth is that he did avoid military service but not because he was a coward. It was so that he could continue his torrid affair with the older German film star Marlene Dietrich, then aged 40. It wasn't even his real name. He was a true American hero...what a load of crap!

@@sparkyperson

You are vulgar. Icon best describes John Wayne. This is indicated by how he is addressed by the world and that is "John Wayne". Not Mr. Wayne or anything else. You see some people make a name for themselves. And this Great One was just working trying to provide for his family. A talented director is responsible for our great treasure that "The Duke" is and will always be.

@Bruce Bashore easy to tell you haven't dug too deep into his personal life and that you haven't seen many of his entertaining movies which offer a wide range of characters which almost anyone with half an open mind could find joy. I'm working now and my break is up but I have more to say to you and I'd like to offer a suggestion.

@Bruce Bashore and you are just a bitch trying to stir shit up. hurry up go report comment stupid sjw troll

+Chris Delany Mister. Those are fine words. I sure miss him too. Love watching his movies, especially Red River and Chisum. They'll never be another Duke.

+Edmund Fendel you are so correct! Those of us that grew up on his movies actually were taught that America was a great Country, worth our blood,sweat and tears. Today the kids are taught to hate the USA and themselves for some reason. We miss you Duke!

+Chris Delany I grew up on him, and I outgrew him

The man that never made a mistake never made anything.

so that's why Gibbs[NCIS] has that on his list of rules!

You are projecting your opinions onto people that you don’t know or even understand! Speak for yourself please!

You said it right sakai! The lefties deny the truth, whether it's history, real science, God, economics or most anything else. They live in a fairy tale world of misery thinking the world will end if their ideas are not forced on the rest of humanity. So pitiful....

@@wallacebell4311 . The last three years have only proved that opinion about your leftist traitor government.

That "other quote" that you're attributing to John Wayne was actually Clint Eastwood's from the 1973 flick, "Magnum Force" I don't recall any Wayne movie with that line. But as to all the rest you wrote.... I agree with you nearly 100% ...ships haven't been built from wood for over 150 years.

Thank you sir or miss, you are correct in the fact that Mr. Wayne did not say that in a movie... I read that in a book his 3rd wife( Pilar Pallete ) wrote about him. While her book was not published until 1987, they separated for ever, strangely enough in 1973, having not spoken for some time.(according to another book I can't remember which one) This actual statement was a personal one, made by Mr. Wayne as more of a way that he lived his life sometime around 1954-55... Might I add that, I also have a lot of respect for Mr. Eastwood's work. Though like all of us, neither one of these two men might have been perfect in their real life.... I would say they both portrayed the kind of men I wish there could be more of... Once again thanks for pointing that out to me, and sometimes I go off and don't clearly express my views correctly. I hope this keeps my opinion on the positive side for the good people who actually take time to read. Like you, who I can tell has above average focus for detail and lots of patience to put up with all of the negative uneducated rubbish we all have to wade through in order to find someone to connect to. Your words are well received and the ship quote was stolen from my Dad. He had a way to make you feel you could never quite do enough. His way of motivation I believe. (plus I built a one man ship out of wood and a tractor tire tube when I was a kid. Though a tiny ship, and very un-ship like in every way. With my pirate flag, a tee shirt and black pen skull , it made it half way across our pond before the tube ran out of air and I had to abandon her and swim for my life.) Pirates do not have the heart to go down with their ships.

masters engineering Cool, I understand where you're coming from. ...and I understand what your father meant, had I known that was a quote form your dad, I would've let it pass. When John Paul Jones, stood fast and told his men "Don't give up the ship"... there was a mans' man. An true inspiration for every Yank. I loved the old sailing stories All the books on Capt. Hornblower by C.S. Forester...great stuff. One of my biggest thrills in life was getting to go on the U.S.S. Constitution, in the harbor at Boston in 1972. btw...my fav. John Wayne quote, as I just found out the other day, is surprisingly what was placed on the headstone of his grave, recently. As He was in an unmarked grave for over twenty years. I had always thought it was a line from one of his movies that someone else had wrote...but everything I could find that had anything to say about it, attribute it to John's own hand. I never knew how articulate he could be. "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

I guess Marion knew his limitations. Bye the way that was a Clint Eastwood quote.

Actually Mr. Eastwood borrowed that quote. You see... Mr Wayne has that exact quote etched in stone. His headstone where he is buried. He , according to his 3rd wife( Pilar Pallete ) those are the words he lived by. Thank you for noticing . Have a good day.

+Rick Biehle Could not have been better articulated Sir--you nailed it!

And then he laughed all the way to the bank.

and Mr. Morrison earned every bit on his own back and merit.

While the best actors were fighting in WWII. He earned three deferments. Bye the way deferments had to be applied for.

Gary Kirby yes, John Wayne did receive deferments from WWII military service, but that was because Washington and the Pentagon determined that he could be more useful to the war effort by making films and helping to raise money for war bonds than he could by serving in he field.

+Dave N Hi "Dave N"! LOL, he doesn't give all the information about himself (or show any picture) is that because he wants to remain anonymous? OMG where have we seen that before! He is thinking about a sexual response when I was in fact making a patriotic response? What is wrong with those Trolls, they are too inept to have a real life so they instead in their jealousy/envy troll the internet and try to make everyone feel as miserable as they are but LOL, it aint going to happen here! :) I can help though, I know a good Psychiatrist you can become a friend with, and he can help you sort out those Freudian "sexual orientation" issues he has. Have a nice day! (and try not to hurt any small animals in the process ok?). J O H N W A Y N E = ONE OF THE BEST!PS: No you cannot be my You Tube Friend.

YOU people truly enjoy showing of your abject stupidity, and YOU do it so well.

Forgot to address it to DaveN……..

Journeyman You do know Mr. Wayne was a homosexual don’t you? Nothing wrong with it, it’s his choice but it was well know in the circles of Hollywood, Look it up. Stop believing the fantasy he portrays.

JJJ SMITH journeyman's fantasy is Marion being homosexual

+dinora garcia DITTO!

Well here it is Nov 30th 2018 2134 and *I feel we finally have the Right Man For The Job Of POTUS DONALD J TRUMP. WWG1 WGA MAGA KAG 2020. LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC*

Hell Dinora you made that Statement 5 Years Ago,!!! Now in 2020 we Could REALLY use a Dude Like John Wayne !!!! Talk About alot of Crazy Shit Going On WOW !!

@@rogerhegemier8491 l totally agree!

God help us!

When I hear John Wayne I thinkof draft dodger.

+karen solberg So, you can't read, can you. Marion was a college football player until he got hurt, which is why he walked like a drunken sailor - bad knee. He was "discovered" while working as a stage hand. Because of his knees, and the contract the studio held that they wouldn't let him out of, the Duke never served. but he thought enough of our service men and women to use his own money to produce a movie about 'Nam when our yellow journalists were writing crap about our kids who came home shot to hell and back. No liberals liked him.

@@karensolberg5332 Karen, as long as you served our country well and did not squirm, like today, we salute you......

@@karensolberg5332 - Karen, that's where we differ. I only did 22 years but I've not a harsh word to think or think of Mr. Wayne. He did a lot of good being an actor, maybe more than he could have in uniform, but we'll never know. Mstrdiver - US Army 1973 to 1995

He was my roll model growing up. My dad was off to war,WW2.

Then your dad should have been your role model

That is almost right. What is correct is that “John Wayne is the true definition of a man.” He may have passed from this world but he still holds the status.

Shirley D fast forward 2016 we're stuck with a pussy like Trump

No. Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable and Henry Fonda were all a 'real man'. They joined and served in WWII. Wayne said he would and never did. Love his movies but a phony in that sense.

LOL, love those lines.

Big Jake

Big Fake.

Gary Kirby shut up

OMG you hurt my feelings. lol

ALL hat and no cattle...that's what we say in Oklahoma . 😉

Never be another Duke.

you bet !

Growing up in the Sixties, I have to admit I didn't think much of Wayne's older movies. I thought of them as "corny". My western hero was Clint Eastwood. But, I did enjoy "True Grit ", "The Cowboys ", his two cop movies, "McQ " and "Brannigan", and "The Shootist". It was only later, when I was older, that I began to appreciate how good his older films are.