With all the hoo-hah about cartoons of Allah, this one may slip under the wire and deserves not to. Gary Trudeau, author of the Doonesbury cartoon which has drawn critique from just about everyone in the political spectrum (though he’s probably best known for skewering conservatives) has authored a new compilation of cartoons relating to the character BD, who’s been around since the Viet Nam days and is the soldier foil in Trudeau’s cartoons.
I have a copy of the 1971 book “But This War Had Such Promise” that follows the football helmet clad BD and his new friend, Phred the Terrorist, through the Viet Nam war. Like most things written during that time it’s slanted toward anti-war sentiment, but everything was slanted that way, and it didn’t detract from its popularity. Besides, it was hysterical and pretty much on the money.
Regardless, Trudeau was signing copies of his latest “The Long Road Home” at the Pentagon on January 31. The book deals with BD, now an amputee from Iraq action and how he deals with the loss after coming home. Accounts published on the Army News Service say it has been well received.
Goes to show that military men can still find the humor in anything, no matter how rough it gets.
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