As a factory of escapist entertainment,Hollywood understandablydidn’t want to touch the Vietnam Warin the late 1960s.
Every day, Americans turned on their televisions to watch extensive war coverage and ground-level combat footage.
They flip over to the next channel to find coverage of hostile, sometimes violent, protests at home.
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In their minds, audiences needed to be reminded of America’s halcyon dayspost-World War II.
With the ongoing Vietnam War looming large over America,Wayne was unafraidto express his anti-communist and nationalist rhetoric.
One of Hollywood’s great icons is something of an underrated actor.
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America’s involvement in the war was exacerbated in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive.
The year not only saw carnage in the jungles of Vietnam but also in the streets of America.
Upon release, critics immediately sniffed out the agenda Wayne was trying to push.
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