Star Wars Episode XV: Why John Wayne Didn’t Sign Up
Star Wars Episode XV: Why John Wayne Didn’t Sign Up
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No actor on movie screens in the 1940s embodied American patriotism and unpretentious masculinity better than John Wayne. But Wayne didn’t have the defining experience of most adult American men of the 1940s — Wayne didn’t enlist to…