I'm really sorry to hear that Bill Mauldin died, for some reason I guess he'd go on forever.
My cousin was in Europe in WW2 and I bought all of Mauldins books for him, the cartoon he loved and laughed at the most was when Willie and Joe are looking at a farm house without a roof, there are bomb holes all over the fields and his trees were badly damaged.
Willie says to Joe
"Tell him not to feel too bad, his trees is pruned, his ground is plowed and his house is air conditioned."
Bill Maudlin was truly a man of his time. He could make us laugh and cry at the same time.
God Bless Bill
Esther
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