The Cartoon That Caused A Thousand Butthurts

The American Civil War, "The War Between the Beards"

Major Gen. Alpheus S. Williams, USA

Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, CSA

Maj. Gen. George S. Greene, USA

Maj. Gen. George Crook, USA

Maj. Gen. Christopher Augur, USA

Lt. Gen. John McCallister Schofield, USA

Maj. Gen. Romyn B. Ayres, USA

Brig. Gen. Samuel Sprigs Carrol, USA

Maj. Gen. John Dunlap Stevenson, USA

Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, USA

Maj. Gen. Lafayette Mclaws, CSA

Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA

Col. John S. Green, CSA

Brig. Gen. Henry H. Sibley, CSA

Maj. Gen. Hiram Berdan, USA

Brig. Gen. C.B. White, USA

Lt. Gen. Thomas “Stonewll” Jackson, CSA

Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood, CSA

2nd Lt. Albert Ames, USA

Maj. Gen. W.B. Hazen, USA

Maj. Gen. George Meade, USA

Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, USA

Maj. Gen. Asalom Baird, USA

Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, CSA

Maj. Gen. George Pickett, CSA

Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA

Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA

Rear Admiral John Larimer Worden, USA

Rear Admiral Stephen Blecker Luce, USA

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA

I’m not crying you are!

A letter left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, presumably at (or near) its dedication on November 13, 1982.

The letter reads:

Dear David,

It has been a long time and I still think of you often.

I thought you would like to know they closed our high school last year, a big “last time celebration” for everyone. David your class didn’t forget you buddy, a special ceremony was held in your honor. Yours and Staley, he is a few panels from you. I have left him a shirt this morning also.

David, this country did try to forget you for many years. Things have changed. They are beginning to understand, but no, we can not let them forget, or else they will do it again.

I dropped my singing scholarship after you and Staley were KIA. Just didn’t seem right anymore. Hell I still can’t sing, everytime I do a lump gets caught in my vocal cords. Damn the 3 of us were great.

I know you are ok where you are for you believed. Just sing “Old Man River” with me this morning, I know Ronnie will join us.

Love you, Render

Grassley broke Bernie, and it’s brutal.

Marines of Charlie Company, 1/5 Marines responding to enemy fire, circa 1967-1968.