and rick - here's what you are looking for:

http://www.medaloffreedom.com/JohnWayne.htm 

http://www.medaloffreedom.com/FAQ.htm 

In looking through the list of people that have been awarded this medal it appears that it is given by the president to those that make us feel good. Don't go getting in a wad saying he doesn't deserve a medal. It appears they give these things out quite liberally.

some recepients:

Cagney, James

Douglas, Kirk

Kaye, Danny

Lunt, Alfred

Peck, Gregory

Sinatra, Frank

Stewart, James M.

Wayne, John

Fontanne, Lynn

Hepburn, Audrey

Thatcher, Margaret

Reagan, Ronald

Hope, Bob

Cousteau, Jacques-Yves

Anderson, Marian

Blake, James H.

de Kooning, Willem

Disney, Walter

Fontanne, Lynn

Lunt, Alfred

MacLeish, Archibald

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Peck, Gregory

Rockwell, Norman

Rubinstein, Arthur

Serkin, Rudolf

Steichen, Edward

Welty, Eudora

Wyeth, Andrew

Aaron, Henry

DiMaggio, Joe

Owens, Jesse

Robinson, Jackie

Powell, Colin L.

Chase, Lucia

Graham, Martha

Cheney, Richard B.

Laird, Melvin R.

McNamara, Robert S.

Rumsfeld, Donald H.

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Sadat, Anwar el-

Bardeen, John

Marriott, J. Willard

Walton, Samuel M.

Fitzgerald, Ella

Bryant, Paul W.

Calder, Alexander

Rubinstein, Arthur

Teresa, The Reverend Mother

Walesa, Lech

Wiesel, Elie

Rockwell, Norman

Brinkley, David

Carson, Johnny

Willson, Meredith

the list goes on and on...

Funny thing Adroomi....you can safely come to a similar conclusion about Clint Eastwood as well. He rarely varied his character. Clint the cowboy, Clint the cop (cowboy). Clint the Soldier (cowboy/cop).

Yeah...John Wayne had his time. He wasn't a great man by any stroke of the imagination. He was in some damned good movies.

mattmelcher

thanks for the refrences.

adroomi

You didn't cut & paste from xeromag, did you?

http://www.xeromag.com/v2i2ed.html 

or

— John Wayne

Racist, alcoholic, conservative,

All-American, Commie-hating,

Hollywood actor

http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/americons/FascistMadness.html 

http://www.medaloffreedom.com/FAQ.htm 

No mention of rickamaven or his service record... go figure

Of course.....why?

Are you trying to discredit the trueness of the post?

No adroomi,I think he's trying to point out that your an F_in' Tool. But thats just a guess.

Yes, I picked up on that. It slid off me like water, Just as your comment did. Thanks for showing your opinion though. I won't lose a lot of sleep over it, however.

I take it you're another of the ones that don't like me? I can live with that.

adroomi

Don't go and get paranoid just because some of the posters are getting a little short with you, as you do ask for it from time to time! Ease up on the cynacism!

Smoke a good cigar, have a drink and relax!

Repeat after me, "My country tis of thee,....

Charlie

(another GREAT thread)

Being a cbid poster requires thick-skinned COJONES!

I salute you guys. LOL!!!!

LMAO at blood ...

I wonder sometimes if a cfest herf would be a safe gathering to attend.

While droomi's condescension sometimes rubs me the wrong way, in like manner so does the condescension and personal attacks directed AT him ... and others.

While I don't always agree with the point he makes, I find droomi to be, at least, very diverse and a thinker of the calibur of my own father. Methinks many on this forum misunderstand his views because of their single dimensional perspective of their world around them, and were they to analyze his comments and opinion, rather than immediatly jump to a defensive posture they might expand their own basis for their own ways of thinking and find commonality in their frame of reference. At the very least, they might find LESS dissent from their own views than what appears at first blush.

Thank you, AGAIN, cbid, for this forum.

Purp