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Clint Eastwood Takes on New Role as Honorary Chairman For National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum. (PRNewsFoto/National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, SAM JONES) 18 Jul 2011 13:00 Africa/Lagos Clint Eastwood Takes on New Role as Honorary Chairman For National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum PR Newswire WASHINGTON, July 18, 2011 WASHINGTON, July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Legendary actor, and Oscar award-winning director and producer Clint Eastwood has agreed to serve as Honorary Chairman for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum in Washington, DC. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110718/DC36272 ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090112/DC57979LOGO ) "The National Memorial and Museum are long overdue and richly deserved tributes to the men and women in law enforcement," declared Mr. Eastwood. "On average, an officer is killed in the line of duty somewhere in America every 53 hours. ...

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press . Re: Clint Eastwood: Spike Lee Should "Shut His Face", Lee Responds, "We're Not On A Plantation" African-American film director Spike Lee has issues with the racial cast in Clint Eastwood 's 2006 films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima on the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima for the Japanese island, because Eastwood failed to represent the heroic roles of African-American soldiers in World War Two . Eastwood said it would be inaccurate and inappropriate to include an African-American soldier among the six men who were Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima . If someone tells a story and you disagree with it, simply go and tell your own version of the story and as Clint "Cowboy" Eastwood said, Spike Lee should shut his face! Spike Lee is a good director, but not as great as Clint Eastwood. Spike Lee knows that over one million African-Americans fought in WW Two...