Posted on 05/27/2009 9:23:53 AM PDT by Starman417
Above is the Doonesbury cartoon that ran this past Sunday. What's different about it from previous Memorial Day Doonesbury 'toons?
Well, in 2004, a new tradition began to "honor" Memorial Day and the recently fallen:
Cartoonist Garry B. Trudeau on Memorial Day will devote his comic strip "Doonesbury" to listing U.S. military personnel who have been killed during the war in Iraq.
More than 700 names will appear in tiny type over six panels in the Sunday strip. A note beneath the final panel will say, "List as of April 23, 2004
Comic strip historians say it is the first time such a eulogy has been presented in the comics, and it echoes the war dead roll call Ted Koppel delivered April 30 on ABC's "Nightline."
"This is the only time I can think of this happening in the comics," said M. Thomas Inge, author of "Comics as Culture." "Every D-Day, Charles Schulz did a special drawing in 'Peanuts,' but nothing like this."
Apparently in 2009, both traditions have been scrapped.
(Excerpt) Read more at Flopping Aces ...
Democrat in the WH, don’t ya know
Trudeau is a scum, a swine, evil filth that shouldn’t be allowed to call himself American.
I dispise the man, ignore his propoganda and pray for Democrats to tax him into poverty, (unlikely).
Sorry if I was holding back.
Yea, pretty clear how shallow the left is.
I don’t get it.
Guess I’m uninvited to the latest happening liberal cocktail parties...
Does Trudeau have a nickname like “Brown Sugar” for the new SecState as he did for the old one?
“Trudeau is a scum, a swine, evil filth that shouldn’t be allowed to call himself American.”
I think that’s a little harsh. I mean, sure, he was like the Jimmy Carter of Canada. And his wife turned out to be a rock groupie nutcase. But still, Canadians are rightly North Americans, and they can call themselves...
What?
Never mind.
“What?
Never mind.”
You win. I swung and missed there.
He’s still a scumbag, not Pierre, Garry.
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