This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American

people. And we love your stories, our listeners' stories. Send them to Our American Stories.com.

They're some of our favorites.

Here to tell another Hollywood Goes to War's story is Roger McGrath.

McGrath is the author of Gunfighters, Highwayman, and Vigilantees,

Violence on the Frontier.

He's a U.S. Marine and former history professor at UCLA.

McGrath has appeared on numerous History Channel documentaries,

and he's a regular contributor for us here

at Our American Stories.

Here's McGrath.

World War I veteran George O'Brien

became a star in Hollywood with his breakout performance as the lead in John

Ford's silent film epic, The Iron Horse. Handsome and built like the top athlete he was,

O'Brien would appear in 11 more John Ford movies and 85 films altogether and serve in two more

wars, World War II and Korea.

O'Brien represented all that was best in America and in Hollywood,

which may be why he has forgotten today by a different Hollywood and a different America.

George J. O'Brien comes into the world in April 1899 in San Francisco.

His father is Daniel J. O'Brien and his mother, the former Margaret Donahue,

both born into Irish immigrant families.

In 192, Margaret gives birth to a second son,

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