Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 25, 2014

Didn’t this whole thing start with a road trip?

I think Joanie talked to her “youngest” daughter on the phone, implying that there were more, but I don’t think we saw them, so it wasn’t that much of a retcon to erase them from continuity. There were a few later strips with Joanie’s ex-husband with only a single daughter. She didn’t look much like JJ, but being just a pre-teen at the time, that doesn’t really matter.

A few very early strips mentioned Mike’s sister. She even appeared in one single panel, looking just like a female version of Mike.

Who remembers the ’70s?

I believe they were outside the door, the dad got the kids to call out in a way that would distress Joanie, and Zonker said, “That’s a dirty trick, mister.”

Abandoning her children, having no contact with them, and being deaf to their pleas, doesn’t say anything good about Joanie’s character.

Fall-out from free love.

We will never know how many, but in the beginning Joanie had more than one kid. Gary just did a Happy Days (Chuck) and got rid of the others, no big deal.

Maybe you were a year or two too old(I was born in 48), but a friend of mine from that era was climbing Telco poles, and I sometimes wondered how he managed to never fall off! We all had a lot in common with Uncle Duke, back then. I knew lots and lots of airmen/women from Offutt back then too.

70’s??Was there a 70’s??

I also remember the 70’s as I was 19 and in Vietnam in 1970(enlisted the day after I graduated HS as a 17 year old in 68), then spent the next 9 years in the military, all out of the US

I remember the the 60’s and 70’s. I remember my parents following news coverage of Vietnam. I remember thinking why is everyone turning against the people who had to serve in Vietnam, knowing that the vast majority will never return? I remember the rock song with the verse “It ain’t me, It ain’t me, I ain’t no Senator’s son” to depict how politians and the wealthy were getting their sons off the draft. I always feel like this country owe them an apology. I remember people calling them names. The Vietnam boys were just out there all on their own with no country to support them or understand that they were DRAFTED into an undeclared war. That is a wrong that has never been righted.