BILL MAULDIN'S WORLD WAR II CARTOON:
WILLIE AND JOE
There are no cartoons like Bill Mauldin's World War II Willie and Joe. Sergeant Bill Mauldin began drawing Willie and Joe while serving in World War II for Stars and Stripes and other military journals. The looks of Willie and Joe and the ordinary screw ups of soldiers in everyday existence always made me smile. I recently read a review of his life.
Here's something in the review which is a wonderful tribute to him. "With compassion and precision, the military presents the widow or widower of its fallen fighting men and women a folded flag and thanks of a grateful nation. At every such burial an every man folk hero is crafted from a lost life. Mauldin's characteristic skepticism of war's heroic commemorations may be more telling.
Once asked to comment on Tom Brokaw's enormously popular homage to the men and women of the Greatest Generation, Mauldin blew his own version of Taps: 'They were human beings, they had their weaknesses and their flaws and their good sides and bad sides. The one thing they had in common was they were a little too young to die'. "
Bill ended his life with Alzheimers-so sad as it is for all who do. Why we can't end this disease is beyond me. To put a machine on Mars and not find something for this debilitating illness is way beyond me. KT
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan
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There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff
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The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
Pablo Casals
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While we try to teach our children all about life, our
children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
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