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Calling all WWII vets for a vital mission
The Orange County Register ^
| July 30, 2002
| Gordon Dillow
Posted on 07/30/2002 6:54:49 AM PDT by EveningStar
Edited on 04/14/2004 10:05:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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He's an old man now, frail and sick and lying in a bed in an Orange County nursing home. But there was a time when he was a friend to millions of Americans, a man who brought laughter to countless guys who had precious little to laugh about.
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TOPICS: VetsCoR
KEYWORDS: billmauldin; cartoon; cartoonist; newmexico; orangecounty; vcrlist; veterans; wwii
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More photos in this link: CMOHS Convention, Sep 19-24, 2000, in Pueblo, Colorado
Sangre de Cristo Art & Conference Center Auditorium
Pueblo, CO 9/22/2000
CMOHS Convention September 19-23, 2000
Photos Provided by © Robert M. "Mick" Bush 2000, CMHS Photographer
Last updated Jan 21, 2001. Charles Polanski.
Copyright © 2001 Congressional Medal of Honor Society. All rights reserved.
Information in this document is subject to change without notice.
To: EveningStar
Hope you don't think I overdid it with the images I posted. I'll stop now, but
if you or anyone wants me to post more, I'm more than happy to do so. There's
a lot more on that Google Search.
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Mauldin's two main cartoon characters were a couple of dogface infantrymen named Willie and Joe. Dirty, unshaven, squatting in muddy foxholes and griping all the while, they represented the millions of ordinary citizen-soldiers for whom the war wasn't a path to glory, but rather a hard, miserable job that simply had to be done.
The true story is, junior officers and noncoms who had been college students two years before and had ROTC commissions pinned down at that sea wall and couldn't retreat, couldn't go back -- it was just chaos back behind them -- couldn't, as the plan called for, go up the draws. They were getting butchered where they were all the sea wall because the Germans had it all zeroed in with their mortars that were coming down on top of them. And, "Over here, Captain," "Over here, Lieutenant, over here." A sergeant looked at this situation and said, "The hell with this. If I'm going to get killed, I'm going to take some Germans with me." And he would call out, "Follow me," and up he would start. Hitler didn't believe this was ever possible. Hitler was certain that the soft, effeminate children of democracy could never become soldiers. Hitler was certain that the Nazi youth would always outfight the Boy Scouts, and Hitler was wrong.
The Boy Scouts took them on D-Day. Joe Dawson led Company G. He started off with 200 men. He got to the top of the bluff with 20 men, but he got to the top.
Stephen Ambrose to Brian Lamb about D-Day.
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07/31/2002 6:07:58 AM PDT
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Valin
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
My father had saved a handful of Stars and Stripes newspapers from his days in the Army Air Corps and as a kid I never tired of thumbing through the pages seeing Bill Mauldin's great cartoons depicting the real life of GI's during the war.
I never imagined all those guys could get old. His work never will.
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07/31/2002 6:09:26 AM PDT
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Cagey
To: RaceBannon
Mine is Joe and Willy sitting in a foxhole,(It's raining of course)
Joe looks at Willy and says
Why couldn't you been born a woman?
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07/31/2002 6:10:17 AM PDT
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Valin
To: MeeknMing
Keep 'em coming, please.
My copy of "Up Front" is boxed away somewhere.
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Bump!
To: EveningStar
Keep 'em coming, please. My copy of "Up Front" is boxed away somewhere. Alrighty, then. Here ya go, FRiend. Fire number one!
On some of the images, the captions are not clear. I hate to post those, but
I hate not to also.
To: EveningStar
And if ya don't mind, I'd love to "lift" Mr. Smiley from ya!
I know I already posted this, but this one is better than the previous.......
......and "Mr. Duh" too, hehehe......
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I'll make the rest to "All" after this one to give your "My Comments" page
a break, lol !
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Welcome To The Official Web Siteof the National Cartoonists Society
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Low res images from the Reuben Awards.
Left to right, back row - Bob Staake, Jeff MacNelly, Guy Gilchrist, Will Eisner,
Patrick McDonnell, Rick Kirkman, Dave Coverley. Front row - Bil Keane, Bob
Thaves, Mike Luckovich, Bill Amend. Seated at table: Bill Mauldin.
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Bill Mauldin's Cartoons
"Th' hell with it, sir. Let's go back to the front."
To: A Navy Vet
Thank you for this wonderful post. May God continue to bless you, Mr. Mauldin, and Mr. Dillow for writing such a respectful and informative article.
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