PORT ANGELES – When Todd Blevins was a little boy, he wanted to be just like John Wayne.
But not the cowboy Duke.
He liked the legendary actor’s soldier movies.
For the past two decades, he has been living a soldier’s life – and after 10 months of life at war in Iraq, the Army staff sergeant is home for a couple of weeks.
“I always wanted to be a soldier,” the 1983 Port Angeles High School graduate said upon his arrival at William R. Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles on Monday afternoon.
“I had to see all of the John Wayne movies, and I always had to see all of the war movies on TV.”
A group of about 10 family members greeted the soldier when he arrived home from a 10-month tour in Iraq.
When talking to him in Iraq once a month, his mother, Linda Cawyer, would remind him to take care of himself, to be good and not to take too many risks.
“I told him to remember that he wasn’t John Wayne,” she said.
