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In reply to the discussion: Is there an actor/actress you can't stand that everyone else loves? [View all]rsdsharp
(11,126 posts)Historian William Manchester, in a 1987 article in The New York Times Magazine, recalled an encounter with Duke during World War II:
After my evacuation from Okinawa, I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Wayne humiliated in person at Aiea Heights Naval Hospital in Hawaii. Only the most gravely wounded, the litter cases, were sent there
. Each evening Navy corpsmen would carry litters down to the hospital theater so the men could watch a movie. One night they had a surprise for us. Before the film the curtains parted and out stepped John Wayne, wearing a cowboy outfit
He grinned his aw-shucks grin, passed a hand over his face and said, Hi ya, guys! He was greeted by a stony silence. Then somebody booed. Suddenly everyone was booing. This man was a symbol of the fake machismo we had come to hate, and we werent going to listen to him. He tried and tried to make himself heard, but we drowned him out, and eventually he quit and left.
The [Springfield] State Journal-Register
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