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Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin today received one of the nation's highest honors in being featured on a U.S. postage stamp.

ARLINGTON, Va. (Army News Service, Aug. 16, 2005) – The famous works of World War II cartoonist, Bill Mauldin, will be commemorated through Bill Mauldin’s War: Some Things Never Change. The publication of the book coincides with the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Aug. 15 was Victory Japan or VJ Day and Sept. 2. is the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri. The National Guard Bureau’s Office of Public Affairs will publish the 50-page Mauldin book later this year. Featuring about 20 of Mauldin’s cartoons, the book will be...

ARLINGTON, Va. (Army News Service, Aug. 16, 2005) – The famous works of World War II cartoonist, Bill Mauldin, will be commemorated through Bill Mauldin’s War: Some Things Never Change. The publication of the book coincides with the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Aug. 15 was Victory Japan or VJ Day and Sept. 2. is the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri. The National Guard Bureau’s Office of Public Affairs will publish the 50-page Mauldin book later this year. Featuring about 20 of Mauldin’s cartoons, the book will be...

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

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Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Fade Away His work speaks for itself. http://ww2.pstripes.osd.mil/02/nov02/mauldin/index.html Raise a glass for Bill Mauldin. May his works never fade away. "Why th' hell couldn't you have been born a beautiful woman?" "This is th' town my pappy told me about."

WWII CARTOONIST BILL MAULDIN DIES AT 81 NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) . Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who as a young Army rifleman during World War II gave newspaper readers back home a sardonic, foxhole-level view of the front with his drawings of weary, dogface GIs Willie and Joe, died Wednesday at 81. Mauldin died at a nursing home of complications from Alzheimer's disease, including pneumonia, said Andy Mauldin, one of his seven sons. ``It's really good that he's not suffering anymore,'' he said. ``He had a terrible struggle.'' Mauldin was one of the pre-eminent editorial cartoonists of the 20th...

<p>NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Bill Mauldin, who dished out snippets of World War II reality laced with humor through cartoon soldiers Willie and Joe and became one of the 20th century's pre-eminent editorial cartoonists, died Wednesday. He was 81.</p> <p>Mauldin died of complications from Alzheimer's disease, including pneumonia, at a Newport Beach nursing home, said Andy Mauldin, 54, of Santa Fe, N.M., one of the cartoonist's seven sons.</p>

Monday, August 19, 2002 Cartoonist Mauldin seriously ill; GIs, veterans urged to send well-wishes By Patrick J. Dickson, Stars and Stripes European edition, Wednesday, August 14, 2002 WASHINGTON — Bill Mauldin, who won a Pulitzer Prize for cartoons he drew while covering World War II for Stars and Stripes, is seriously ill, and friends are asking that servicemembers, particularly veterans, send word. Bob Greene, a Chicago Tribune writer and former colleague of the 80-year-old Mauldin, wrote in an Aug. 11 column that Mauldin “needs visitors, and he needs cards of encouragement.” Greene said in a phone interview with Stripes that...

<p>Someone from the 3rd Infantry Division got in touch and said he thought I'd want to know. He said it was about Bill Mauldin. What followed was not so good.</p> <p>I'll get to that in a moment. For those of you too young to recognize the name: Bill Mauldin, who is now 80 years old, was the finest and most beloved editorial cartoonist of World War II. An enlisted man who drew for Stars and Stripes, he was the one who gave the soldiers hope and sardonic smiles on the battlefields; Mauldin knew their hearts because he was one of them. Using his dirty, unshaven, bone-weary infantrymen characters Willie and Joe as his vehicle, Mauldin let all those troops know there was someone who understood. A Mauldin classic from World War II: an exhausted infantryman standing in front of a table where medals were being given out, saying: "Just gimme th' aspirin. I already got a Purple Heart."</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>