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Old 05-27-2020, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by davem4616 View Post
some 'half truths'

Duke did smoke, he did drink and he never served in the military...albeit he tried to enlist early on and toward the end of WWII he tried again to enlist

I like his movies...and what I believe he stood for
He was born in May of 1907 so was what, 34 years of age when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, 37 on D-Day?

IMHO his movies accomplished more for American morale during wartime than he could have accomplished as an anonymous single middle aged soldier.

He was 10 - 11 years old during WWI, a little young to enlist.

Likely a majority of adult males smoked during most of his adult life, up until around 1964. His smoking was not unusual or even frowned upon in those days. It was considered sociable. (ugh)

A lot of hard liquor used to be consumed, at least in the movies, along with a lot of cigarette smoking. During my 20s and 30s the "three martini lunch" on a salesman's expense account was pretty common.
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