Veterans recently honored the real-life volunteer introduced to 75 million Doonesbury readers as JIM THE MILKSHAKE MAN for his bedside visits to wounded vets at the Army's Walter Reed hospital.
Jim Mayer was recognized at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for his 500th peer visit. It is called a peer visit because Mayer, like many of the war-wounded veterans in hospital beds, lost his legs in a land mine explosion in Vietnam. Besides the occasional milkshake, Mayer brings to their bedside a message of hope based on lessons learned since his own traumatic injuries 37 years ago.
“Jim the Milkshake Man,” appears as a character in Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury book “The Long Road Home; One Step at a Time,” that chronicles the post-amp story of the comic strip’s resident warrior, B.D.
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