Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 18, 1986
Transcript:
Man: Welcome aboard, sir! Man 2: Hey...no one said anything about costumes! Man: It's just a uniform, sir. Man 2: Oh...very well. Carry on. Man: Did you fight in the big one, sir? Man 2: Sure did sailor. I was in the O.S.S. Man: Really? Boy, I envy you, sir. There'll never be another war like that one! A good war, unambiguous and noble, where our purpose was clear, right, sir? Man 2: Well, that's certainly why I signed up, son. Unfortunately, I was classified as a security risk when they learned my father lived in Estonia. He, meanwhile, was jailed by both the Soviets and Nazis, but still got my mother out on a ship of Jewish refugees, which, of course was denied entry into New York. By then, the Soviets were our allies, so I was returned to duty just as my best friend. A Japanese-American, was interned. I wound up fighting the Japanese alongside communist partisans in China. Man: Still compared to Vietnam... Man 2: No comparison. To begin with, we had much better music.