He was proud of being Irish wasn't he? More so than Scottish (his other nationality). Atheism is growing in Ireland the last few years and I wonder if he could know this how the Duke would feel about it.
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shareThere is NO evidence to support this claim whatsoever...are you basing this on falling church attendance?
As of 2011, only 7% of the population claimed that there is no God or spiritual force...bit of an over reaction on your part, I'm thinking...
I don't act...I react. John Wayne
He was AMERICAN, NOT Irish! It makes me sick when I hear AMERICANS, who have never been to Ireland, couldn't find it on a map, or even know it consists of two different countries, claim they're Irish!
It's equally cringeworthy when it happens in films!
Even Barak O'Bama(?) claims to be Irish! LOL. STFU!
Sure he was, terran apefairy; sure he was.
Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?
Thank goodness for the HUAC. Check out M. Stanton Evans' Blacklisted By History. Most of those who denied being communists were (after the fall of the Soviet Union and in their official records) lying and, thus, belatedly discovered to have been what they were accused of being -- with many on the USSR's payroll. Facts you'll never be exposed to in any of Hollywood's glamorizations of their self-glorifying travails.
shareNow the PC Left are far worse witch hunters than HUAC ever were.
shareJohn Wayne had just one "nationality"... American!
Now his "heritage" in the other hand, was indeed Scotch/Irish.
Interestingly, most Americans with an Irish or Scotch/Irish heritage who do their research find that their lineage only passed through Ireland. The vast majority of those "Irish" immigrants that came to the US were no more than 2 generations removed from Scotland.
A great many Scots that went there found that Ireland did not suit them. So, they booked passage to America. Once here, many found homes in places like NYC & Boston, others settled in the hills of Appalachia which reminded them of the Scottish Highlands. Still others married into the Native American tribes, predominantly Cherokee, because the Tribal ways were much like life in the Scottish Clans. In fact, the Chief of the Cherokee Nation who led the tribe on their Trail of Tears (and who also happened to be my ancestor) was 1/4 Cherokee and 3/4 Scot.
But the Duke was 100% All American!
The hyphen is something that divides people. Anyone who calls himself an African-American, or German-American, or even Irish-American, is a Divided-American.
^^^ I've read some crap on this site but you're post is top of the pile
shareIf you are referring to me, please tell me what part of my statement was "crap", and why?
Every single thing I said in my post was 100% factual. If you are referring to my last paragraph it is true as well. My ancestors arrived here in the early 1700's from Scotland. Do I call myself a Scottish-American? No, I am a totally red-blooded American. Yes my family heritage can be traced to Scotland, but I am more than 300 years removed from there.
Unless you yourself are an immigrant, or perhaps a first generation American, and you hyphenate your nationality then you are a divided American. And by the way... The Duke thought the same thing! The hyphen has led to an awful lot of racial tension in our nation's history. Maybe, if we all stopped using it then things would finally get better.