John Wayne Saw A Bank Try To Shut Down A Café That Fed Veterans Free- What He Did Next Was Pure Duke

John Wayne's Forgotten Legends

October, 1959. Brackettville, Texas. While directing and starring in The Alamo — a picture he had mortgaged nearly everything he owned to make — John Wayne kept driving into town to eat at a small café with a hand-painted sign in the window: VETERANS EAT FREE. EVERY DAY. NO EXCEPTIONS. Every single