Mama Cass was an incredible singer. It's sad that her life ended early, and even sadder that people tend to make her death a paraody and laugh about it. I have heard everything from her choking on a chicken sandwhich to a ham sandwhich and it...
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Mama Cass was an incredible singer. It's sad that her life ended early, and even sadder that people tend to make her death a paraody and laugh about it. I have heard everything from her choking on a chicken sandwhich to a ham sandwhich and it really sickens me. This woman was incredible, and sang so beautifully.

I loved seeing her character on the Scooby Doo cartoon when I was a child. And a few years ago I got the honor of seeing her daughter on television, and she's a slimmer version of a wonder mother.

The world lost a great star when Mama Cass died.

The first time I ever saw John Wayne was at the age of 5. My grandfather a former sailor in the United States Navy, was watching Duke's film with Patricia Neal, Operation Pacific. It was that day, I fell in love with John Wayne, and the United...
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The first time I ever saw John Wayne was at the age of 5. My grandfather a former sailor in the United States Navy, was watching Duke's film with Patricia Neal, Operation Pacific. It was that day, I fell in love with John Wayne, and the United States Navy. I idolize this man, the man himself and his persona of John Wayne. He was incredible, bigger than life itself and he let nothing stand in his way, Whether it was the "Big C" (Cancer), or gruff, irritating Directors (John Ford comes to mind here), or the women in his life.

Duke began his life as I did mine, dirt poor. He fought his way up to popularity in high school even with a name like Marion. He had an abusive mother, similiarly I had an abusive step mother. The more I found out about his life, and the ways it was similar to mine, the more I admired the man.

Then when i was 12 I heard him sing his song, America, Why I Love Her. The tears fell as I listened to this very patriotic American sing of his love for his country. Goose bumps formed, because I too, felt this way, and still do.

I know it seems sappy and perhaps I was born about 70 years out of time, but I still feel the chill run up my spine when I hear this song, and when I see Duke Wayne on the screen.

One of my favorite quotes of Duke's is as follows:

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.