Actor John Wayne an Academy Award winning starred in many different movies including True Grit, The Alamo, and The Green Berets. Epitomizing rugged masculinity he became an enduring American icon with a larger-than-life image who symbolized and communicated American values and ideals. A Harris Poll, released January 2009, placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, the only deceased star on the list and the only one who has appeared on the poll every year since it first began in 1994.
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Waynes’ headstone is inscribed: Tomorrow is the most Important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. John Wayne 1907-1979 (Scenes include the Alamo & Monument Valley)315
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Actor John Wayne is shown as a 10th Cousin 1 times removed to Joseph Passmore (1738-1767), through Joseph’s second great-grandfather Thomas Passmore (1614-1652). However it shows Thomas’ father as John Passmore (1743-1791), who’s mother was Margaret Strode (1723-1813) which is impossible due to dates in which John Passmore lived.3