A Word from Marion Morrison
"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure, I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been and never will be."
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
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he had a lung removed in 1964 due to cancer. He had smoked 3 to 5 packs of stinkarettes a day up until that time. He died of stomach cancer in 1979.
See, he was familiar with faults!
You know, he never had his name changed. Legally he was Marion Morrison his whole life.
from wikipedia...
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa in 1907, but his name was changed to Marion Michael Morrison when his parents decided to name their next son Robert. His family was Presbyterian; father Clyde Leonard Morrison was of Irish and Scottish descent and the son of an American Civil War veteran while mother Mary Alberta Brown was of Irish descent. Wayne's family moved to Glendale, California in 1911; it was neighbors in Glendale who started calling him "Big Duke" because he never went anywhere without his Airedale Terrier dog, who was Little Duke. He preferred "Duke" to "Marion", and the name stuck for the rest of his life.
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