By Alan Caruba It’s not a national holiday but, for some, it should be. On May 26, 1907 Marion Robert Morrison came into the world in Winterset, Iowa. When he left on June 11, 1979 he was John Wayne, an American icon. Men of a certain generation or two, fortunate to grow up going to the many movies he made in a long career owe him a great debt. By his very presence on the silver screen he taught us all what it meant to be a man. Wayne was masculine without having to prove it. He literally...
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