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I am laying in my camper on the ranch where we hunt deer. Just finished watching Hondo from a disc. John Wayne epitomized America when I was a kid and continued to do so for most of my young adult life. He was a great American. The Duke was actually a rather plain and simple actor as well as a human being—quite common even down to his sense.

John Wayne prided himself on calling a spade a spade. And in his day that was endearing as the population was mostly realists.

While John Wayne was loved by the right and the left of his time and a darling of the MSM in his era...I am afraid today he would be called a chauvinistic fascist. Some his moves on women in his movies...might even get him labeled a sexual predator.

There will never be another Duke and I am sad for that but what makes me even sadder is that John Wayne’s country no longer even exists.

I find myself asking every time I watch a Wayne film...what in Sam Hill went wrong???