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Understood. His film career came after. Jerry Coleman, Willie Mayes, Ted Williams, and many other professional athletes did their service. Bob Feller was on the USS Alabama with my uncle. Uncle John said their baseball team didn't lose a game during the entire war. And in WW I - Capt. Eddie Grant.

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Died of cancer caused by the radioactive sand caused by nuclear testing in the desert in which they shot his movies, and even transported the sand to an LA soundstage for studio shots. He got sick and died cuz his gummint kept that a secret. Republithug to the end though. Go figure.

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Wayne was born in Iowa and then his family moved to California.

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You are the best, Gary Legum. Stop by more often.

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The morphing into a bat is pure narcotic hallucination. Just a fantastic image, Gary.

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A woman of declining relevance.

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Susan Hayward also, too.

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Bob Hope was born in the UK.

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Thank you! Wayne was born in Iowa.

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Thank you!

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Not to mention his support of Joseph McCarthy and his service as an enforcer of the House Unamerican Activities Committee's Hollywood blacklist.

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Don't blame Legum. That was the half-bat/half-John Wayne speaking.

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Peggy Noonan is precisely what I would expect from Murdoch's Wall Street Urinal.

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Who served with Sgt. Bob Keeshan, also a Marine, A.K.A Captain Kangaroo. Marvin told that story to Johnny Carson (Ensign, USN) "back in the day". It's probably on a Kinescope somewhere.

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Jointly with the composer George Antheil.

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