When you get a stamp named after you, you’re licked.
Re “When you get a stamp named after you, you’re licked”.
True, but you are also several other things, dead for one.
You are also a national “mail figure” for all of America.
You are leaving your “stamp” on philatelic history as well
as on America.
You will be, thanks to conservative television in the main, known as a great American patriot, a combat veteran of WW2, D-Day landing participant on a rocket-launcher transport ship as a machine-gunner combatant.
What a guy. He was the original Rodney Dangerfield of his day and forever.
Now he’s playing in that Great Baseball Game of All-Stars in heaven, and keeping God laughing too.