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spike jones

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7. Yes and BTW Fuck John Wayne.

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #6)

Sun Oct 23, 2022, 09:57 AM

Oct 2022

When the navy named some kinf of ship after him, it was reported the first time an actor had been honored like that. I thought at the time that I do not know anything about ships, but I knew for sure that John Wayne was not an actor.

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Sacheen Littlefeather was a Native American icon. Her sisters say she was an ethnic fraud [View all] douglas9 Oct 2022 OP

Interesting atreides1 Oct 2022 #1

I believe the reporting. I am saddened and the sisters may have sought privacy more than hlthe2b Oct 2022 #2

Hmm... Mike Nelson Oct 2022 #3

It Was Theatrical Stunt Roy Rolling Oct 2022 #4

The sisters claim they want to exonerate their father IronLionZion Oct 2022 #5

In one small sense, I wish Wayne had not been held back...maybe it would have been shown on Ferrets are Cool Oct 2022 #6

Yes and BTW Fuck John Wayne. spike jones Oct 2022 #7

Do you know the hull number or type of ship? sl8 Oct 2022 #8

no, that was at least 15 years ago. I will check too. n/t spike jones Oct 2022 #9

I see what you mean. I lived near the John Wayne Marina in Sequim WA back then and spike jones Oct 2022 #10

No problem. sl8 Oct 2022 #11