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| Saturday, December 22, 2007 12:23PM | | | | John Wayne Must Die | Tags: War, Vietnam, John Wayne, American Heroes, Native Americans, Redemptive Violence
| | | | John Wayne Must Die
When I was young I saw a lot of John Wayne. I watched him kill a lot of people. All of them bad, most of them Indians. He was also pretty good at killing Japanese, but not so good at killing Germans. John Wayne didn’t die. Not in the movies.
When I was in Marine boot camp they showed us John Wayne movies. In Marine boot camp you couldn’t leave the base, you couldn’t go to the PX, you couldn’t buy soft drinks, ice cream or candy. You couldn’t have cigarettes, beer, or women. Instead we had John Wayne. Usually, he wore a Marine uniform and killed a lot of Japanese.
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