Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 22, 2006
Transcript:
B.D.: I was wearing a kevlar helmet, not the new one, but it got the job done...Any part of me that wasn't armored up got embedded with shrapnel - face, arms, hands, leg, butt - you can't imagine... Elias: Yeah, I can. I still feel the scrap metal I picked up during some too-close air support from a piar of F-4s. Hilariously, I call it my phantom pain. B.D.: Back to me.
SCCelt51 almost 6 years ago
US F-4 “Phantom” fighter jet, Viet Nam era. “The Great Santini’s” aircraft.