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| ID | 12130451 |
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| Authors | M B Young (0000-0002-0229-4108) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 22-26 |
| Publication date | 2004-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OAH Magazine of History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0882-228X • E-ISSN: 1938-2340 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/maghis/18.5.22 |
| OpenAlex | W2316619765 |
| Language | EN |
Many veterans of Vietnam will tell you they went to war with images of John Wayne and the Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) in their heads. They have probably forgotten that Wayne played a depressed, angry alcoholic in the movie and that he dies in the end. The intended hero of the film is not even Wayne at all but the gentle John Agar, who would never want his son to grow up to be a Marine. Not very long after the release of the movie, the men who fought in Iwo Jima, or their younger brothers, went back to war in Korea. Their sons came of age in time for the television reruns of Sands of Iwo Jima and service in Vietnam. The manifest content of the war movies of the 1950s, whether set in World War II or Korea, was prowar. Every service in the military got
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| Highly cited | No |
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