Like my blog colleague, Doug, I don’t particularly consider myself to be a huge fan of Chuck Norris as a public persona, but I love his movies. I also think that people really do underestimate the impact of his movies. Missing In Action nearly single handedly launched the “get ’em back” era of American action films during the Cold War, where the US always managed to top our traditional Communist enemies. Mission In Action was particularly significant as it helped to numb the eternal sting to US pride over embarrassments of the Vietnam War. Chuck went back to ‘Nam, Chuck
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