Art by Nick Cardy from Fight Comics #22, Dec. 1942.
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SCENE: A smiling woman in a U.S. Navy uniform (a WAVE) salutes: Don’t be shy! You can salute back!
CAPTION: Happy Veterans Day!
1942 Art: Nick Cardy Restoration & New Dialogue: John Lustig
Fight_Comics_#22_33
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SCENE: A smiling woman in a U.S. Navy uniform (a WAVE) salutes: Don't be shy! You can salute back!
CAPTION: Happy Veterans Day!
1942 Art: Nick Cardy Restoration & New Dialogue: John Lustig
Fight_Comics_#22_33
CAPTION: Happy Veterans Day!
1942 Art: Nick Cardy Restoration & New Dialogue: John Lustig
Fight_Comics_#22_33
When I was a lad there were still a lot of folks that celebrated Armistice Day. My Grandfather, a blacksmith in the Army in France for WWI was among them.
Every once in a while I’ll dig out John Keegan’s “The First World War”. Then I weep that they’d do it all over again a generation later.
Ya, one of the most sobering moments in M*A*S*H tv show was when Col. Potter was toasting his dead Army buddies:
“To Ryan, who died in WWI, The War to End all Wars.
and Gianelli, who died in the one after that…”
As Lt. Col. Henry Blake said…
Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war. Rule number one is young men die. And rule number two is doctors can’t change rule number one.
When I was very young there was a TV show called “You Asked for It” that took viewer requests. As a result of one of those requests they brought either the last or nearly the last two Civil War vets (one from each side) to meet on camera.
Looking back, it blows my mind to think any Civil War vets were still alive then.
Here’s a link to a still alive civil war pensioner. Alive in 2019 anyway. Daughter of a veteran.
https://historydaily.org/irene-triplett-last-surviving-civil-war-pension-recipient
Wow!!! Thanks for sharing that, Dave. Really incredible!
So many thoughts about this subject but first I’ve gotta say that the nose shadow on that pretty face is very distracting.