Still a fan of westerns and of Gunsmoke. I watch it fairly often on the Starz Westerns Channel on Comcast Channel 162.
James Arness played a strong, caring but no nonsense sheriff with a powerful sense of law and order. Children, and boys in particular, learned how men should behave in these entertaining morality westerns. Evil was exposed, and good triumphed and the hero was respected for his valor.
What are we teaching our children today with all the glorified sex and violence today, that people say of, "it's just reflecting the real world". I guess we can never go back.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)
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