Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 27, 2010
Transcript:
Soldier: Hey, Sarge! Melissa: Welcome back, Justin! Soldier: Thanks! You'll never guess what I just did! Melissa: You assassinated Fidel Castro. Soldier: Uh... right. I changed the course of the Cold War! Melissa: Awesome. Think you could now rejoin the real war? Soldier: Real war? Melissa: Sure, you remember here? Now? Soldier: Easy, Mel - he'll get the bends.
and for some of my combat vet friends, the ghosts of the Viet Nam dead are more “real” than this so-called “Real World”. what passes for civilization looks like a mighty thin bubble membrane to those who have gone through the Wall.
those of us who are, so to speak, Already Dead.