I'm sure that everyone on here has said or done something or even not done something, that would cause someone to think they are a racist.

I can take JW or leave him as an actor.
What I dont understand is why MM is making shit up about him. He obviously didnt look at the story I posted, with the facts by sean spoonts.
JW signed up for the draft, a verified fact. So did 45 million other men. Once called up, there was a 30-50% cull rate. They did not just take everyone, and not "everyone" went.

Wow!

This place never ceases to amaze me…hence the reason I was slow to let it re-enter my life.

Audie was friends with two ropers from Stephenville, TX I knew as a little kid. Their names were George Brown and Whitt Kenny. Audie liked to do cowboy stuff and they accommodated him.

Those 2 guys gave me calf-roping lessons as a little kid. Yes…I “met” Audie at their place several times and he roped while I practiced. I have an autographed pic of him somewhere.

As I said…when I went to Arlington…his grave was the first thing I went to see.

Again Wow!!!

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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:

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Originally posted by ledvm:
I like John Wayne and his politics.

I also like Audie Murphy. I actually knew Audie as a little kid. He liked to do rodeo cowboy stuff and hung out with a couple of the guys who taught me to rope calves.

Been to see his grave twice.

According to my Dad…he was a conservative as well.

You knew Audie Murphy? He was born in 1925 and and died in '71.

Tell us how you knew him and hung out with him.

Christ. You get more crazy by the post.

Howdy Mike

Every time I change my mind about you…you prove every time that you are a loser and I am glad our paths have never crossed.

Go back and reread my original unedited post and highlight for me where I said or eluded to anything you said.

You add to the bad reputation your profession gets and are a genuine ass-hole.

And a dumb motherfucker to boot for being a democrat.

For a lawyer, Mike, you don’t read very carefully and tend to reply rather thoughtlessly.

I’m straddling the fence because I like an actor and his films, and don’t think that not joining/being drafted isn’t being unpatriotic? Sorry, the folks on the home frot generally were pretty patriotic during WWII.

Then you accuse Lane of lying because he said he met Audie Murphy when he was a kid?

Yet the conservatives are crazy and can’t tell the truth?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...dccf14a4db3111&ei=72

Jesus' 'ultimate fighting champion': Why evangelicals are praising Trump
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Right-wing evangelicals are rallying behind Donald Trump because they see him as Christ's "warrior" or "ultimate fighting champion."

That's what Christian historian Kristin Du Mez, author of "Jesus and John Wayne," had to say in an interview with The Bulwark's Mona Charen published on Monday.

"I came to that conclusion by paying attention to evangelical popular culture, and particularly to evangelical ideas about masculinity," said Du Mez. "And I started noticing more than 20 years ago a growing embrace of a very kind of militant, rugged, even militaristic conception of what it meant to be a Christian man, a kind of warrior. And I traced that up to the present and heard so many echoes of that in evangelical support for Trump — he was their ultimate fighting champion, who would do what needed to be done to advance their aims."

The book:

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"In Jesus and John Wayne, a seventy-five-year history of American evangelicalism, Kristin Kobes Du Mez demolishes the myth that white evangelicals "held their noses" in voting for Donald Trump. Revealing the role of popular culture in evangelicalism, Du Mez shows how evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism in the mould of Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson and above all, John Wayne. As Du Mez observes, the beliefs at the heart of white evangelicalism today preceded Trump and will outlast him."

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Gaither Vocal Band - Jesus and John Wayne Lyrics

Daddy was a cowboy, hard as a rock.
Momma, she was quiet as a prayer.
Daddy’d always tell me, son you gotta be tough.
Momma’d kiss my cheek and say play fair.
I did my best to make ‘em proud of me,
But it’s never been an easy place to be.

Somewhere between Jesus and John Wayne.
A cowboy and a saint, crossing the open range.
I try to be more like you Lord, but most days I know I ain’t!
I’m somewhere between Jesus and John Wayne.

Momma’s love was tender
Daddy’s love was strong
But both of them were there to help the weak
They taught me to stand up and fight for what is right
Showed me how to turn the other cheek.
Since there’s a bit of both of them in me,
Then maybe that’s the best that I can ever hope to be!

Yeah I’m somewhere between Jesus and John Wayne.
A cowboy and a saint, crossing the open range.
I try to be more like you Lord, but most days I know I ain’t!
I’m somewhere between Jesus and John Wayne.
Yeah I’m somewhere between Jesus and John Wayne.