Willie, Joe, and Snoopy

United Media ^ | Bill Mauldin, Charles Schulz

[Flux Capacitor]

"Th' hell this ain't th' most important hole in th' world. I'm in it."

[Flux Capacitor]

A Veteran's Day tribute to Charles Schulz and Bill Mauldin, two veterans who went on to become two of the greatest cartoonists of the 20th Century....

....and to all of the fine men and women of the United States military, who sacrificed everything they knew to make this the freest, greatest country on Earth. THANK YOU ALL.

-Dan

[wimpycat]

Good ol' Charles Schulz. He always remembered Veterans Day. Snoopy always had many adventures and covert operations in France, behind enemy lines, dogfighting with the dreaded Red Baron...

[wimpycat]

Can you find that D-Day strip with Snoopy storming the beach at Normandy?

[martin_fierro]

Ping.

[Shooter 2.5]

[Comic Buyer's Guide #1253, Nov.21, 1997]
Charles Schulz donates $1 million for D-Day memorial
Peanuts creator Charles Schulz announced Oct. 18 that he has donated $1 million to help build a National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., and agreed to head the project's fund-raising campaign.
Schulz, a combat veteran of World War II, dedicated his strip to D-Day in 1994 on the 50th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, and regularly pays anniversary tribute to the event. National D-Day Memorial Foundation Director Richard Burrows saw Schulz' tribute strip this year and asked if he would help rasise money for the project. Construction is scheduled to begin soon on the memorial with completion targeted for the the 55th anniversary of D-Day in 1999. Plans call for a 10-acre memorial site, including an education center. Bedford was chosen for the memorial because it suffered the most casualties per capita during the invasion. Of the 35 soldiers from Bedford who participated in the attack 19 died within 14 minutes. Two more died in the course of the day.
The Oct. 19 Richmond Times-Dispatch quoted Schulz as saying, "It is an event we should make sure we never forget."
For more on Schulz, see next week's CBG tribute issue honoring the cartoonist's 75th Birthday.

[AZhardliner]

AMEN!