Remember, at the time, wanting to fight was seen as a good thing.
I remember thinking that Jimmy Stewart not only talked the talk, he actually walked the walk. Turns out that there was another who tried to "walk the walk".
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dgagliasso/2010/02/28/john-wayne-world-war-ii-and-the-draft/Always wondered why he never served, thought it might've been that he was too old, and valued as a movie star to be risked. Now I know better. He just raised, quite a bit, in my estimation.
S.
