I’m living proof that almost everything you need to teach your young children about patriotism you can show them through John Wayne World War II movies.

I’m not sure that my grandparents were deliberately trying to teach me about patriotism, sacrifice and honor when they let me watch those flicks but that’s exactly what those movies taught me about.  In fact, for reasons that even I still don’t understand, those movies were so real to me that from the age of six until I was nine I honestly thought that the U.S. was still fighting the Nazis. (more…)