I never served. I believe the wars of my lifetime were wrong and misguided and fought for what Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex," not to better the world.I think Vietnam was wrong and cost way too many young lives. The little wars of Ronald Raygun were wrong. Afghanistan should have been a grab-and-punish-the-bad-guy operation. Iraq was just plain stupid.
But many of my customers are retired military. A lot of the people I work with are active or retired.
And I'm a big fan of cartoons.
Maybe some of you remember Snoopy, in Peanuts, having a root beer with Bill Maudlin.
Maybe you don't know Bill Maudlin was a Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist who was unemployed so he joined the army in 1941. Check out the official website and enjoy some of his (very very dated) cartoons. It's a good way to respect Memorial Day, when even a pacifist like me can be reminded there is sometimes a need to fight.
