Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 21, 2021

He was more enthusiastic the first time.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1972/02/07

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He doesn’t know what awaits him.

A flashback in a rerun….

That’s because he volunteered to go in order to get out of writing a term paper.

Just imagine if that troop transport was shot down over ’Nam!!

Arice and awake.

Too many young soldiers are excited to be going into combat until they’re in their first battle and reality sets in.

Call Phred first thing.

What’s-His-Face read the Wall Street the whole trip?

I would like to take a trip to Saigon, trouble is, like taking a trip to anywhere, what would I do there?

Love the drawing of the flashback.

This Vietnam arc makes me realize that the US is very fortunate to have learned two very important lessons from that sad experience: don’t get involved in another country’s civil war, and don’t fight a land war in Asia.

Is one of his fellow solider passengers, air sick in the last panel?

Looks just like the pictures from the social studies text books.

Hey,if Ellis Island immigrants can gawk at the Statue of Liberty…..