Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 23, 2004
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Transcript:
Surgeon: Your buddy's coming to, soldier. You can go see him. You should know that few things are as traumatic as losing a limb. Amputees go through a grieving process, starting with denial, then anger... B.D. (from out of frame): Son of a bitch! Surgeon: Sometimes they skip the denial.
Some papers had problems with the language in this strip, but not with sending thousands of young soldiers off to their deaths.