Thirty years ago today...

[bestseller92]

...John Wayne passed away.

Long live the Duke!

[Crazy Navy Flyer]

On the day John Wayne died I found myself pulling into Montego Bay Yacht Club after a 6 day passage from Puerto Rico aboard TRADEWIND. We were met by a beautiful 6' tall brunette with a tray with 6 cold Red Stripes on it. Welcome to Jamaica.

[rich_big]

sail on, duke....

[phjrsaunt]

I thought this lyric from "Incommunicado" might be appropriate today:

Now on the day that John Wayne died
I found myself on the continental divide
Tell me where do we go from here?
Think I'll ride into Leadville and have a few beers
Think of "Red River","Liberty Valence" can't believe the old man's gone

[JustDucky]

I was about to say Well at least someone didn't say the stupid 'Sail on' but obviously I'm wrong about that.

[PHAW Webmistress]

I was about to say Well at least someone didn't say the stupid 'Sail on' but obviously I'm wrong about that.

Are you an unhappy person?

[Frank4]

On the day that John Wayne died, I found myself a 5th grader in Minnetonka, Minnesota getting ready to move back to Chicago with my family. I can remember watching "The Shootist" with my dad right before he died.

[JustDucky]

No, I just find the whole 'sail on' thing to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard or read. It's CHEESY.

[Dally]

No, I just find the whole 'sail on' thing to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard or read. It's CHEESY.

then just "sail on" past threads that you KNOW will contain those words.

[Dally]

My dad was a MAJOR John Wayne fan. When ever a John Wayne movie was on tv he would find it and make us watch it!

He had a handmade pencil drawing of the Duke and some other poster of him hanging on our walls when I was little. He would tell me all the time that John Wayne was my grandpa. So me being the believing 5 year old go and tell all the neighborhood kids the news and bring them to the house and show them the pictures! To this day I still watch my "grandpa" on the BIG SCREEN!!!!

You are missed, Marion Morrison!!!!

I know him and my daddy are having one bar brawlin' time in heaven!

[JustDucky]

I just don't see why someone has to say 'sail on' when they've been dead for centuries. Buffett said it in that remake of SOASOAS from MMIM and now it's what everyone says for someone who died?

Cheesy. Total cheese.

[weirdo0521]

I just don't see why someone has to say 'sail on' when they've been dead for centuries. Buffett said it in that remake of SOASOAS from MMIM and now it's what everyone says for someone who died?

Cheesy. Total cheese.

Well said.

[Tropic_Al]

I just don't see why someone has to say 'sail on' when they've been dead for centuries. Buffett said it in that remake of SOASOAS from MMIM and now it's what everyone says for someone who died?

Cheesy. Total cheese.

Well said.

Sail on to cheesy sentiments....

[Wino you know]

SAIL ON, SIR JOHN WAYNE, *AMERICAN* !

[phjrsaunt]

If you're not a fan of fromage (cheese) don't eat it.

[bestseller92]

"Sail on", "In the breeze....", etc. -- they all just mean, "Thanks for a life well-lived, and we'll miss you".

[Frank4]

"Sail on", "In the breeze....", etc. -- they all just mean, "Thanks for a life well-lived, and we'll miss you".

Well, said. It's a nice alternative to "My condolences"

[flyboy55]

SAIL ON, SIR JOHN WAYNE, *AMERICAN* !

". . . mmm mmm mmm I love this bar."

[Lightning Bolt]

I was kinda honored to work on the big airport project of the early '90's, in Orange County, CA.... John Wayne Airport

There is a statue of the man outside the main entrance that stands nearly 10 feet tall

...fittingly, it is truly larger than life