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Originally Posted by Golf View
A big part of his legacy that isn't politically correct to talk about is how he took advantage of everything this country had to offer but was AWOL when his country asked him to serve in the military, I'm sure he wasn't a coward but it would have cost him a lot of lost revenue if he couldn't prize fight.
Think about the lost World
War II years for real heroes like Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, etc. They answered the call. Not like this egotistical bigmouth. Another thing, he wasn't the greatest, just the loudest.
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You seem to forget that he won an Olympic gold medal for this country. And his beliefs about our involvement in Vietnam are a world apart from what WWII was all about. What you considered bombastic was just entertainment. And he did entertain us.