Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 06, 2010
June 05, 2010
June 07, 2010
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Lio by Mark Tatulli Veteran of Normandy Please Give What You Can.
Lio by Mark Tatulli Veteran of Normandy Please Give What You Can.
It’s awfully good of Lio to give the guy a hug.
However, if I may be the introducer of a tiny bit of cold water, I’d just like to consider age. If this is a vet of Normandy (1944), that would make him at least (assuming he was 17 during the invasion) 81 years old.
At that age - or even if the strip were 10 years old (making the Vet 71), he’d be eligible to live in a nursing home. My work takes me to lots of nursing homes where I see lots of vets.
Without wanting to take away from the idea of saying “Thanks,” it seems a peculiar way to do it. Personally, I’d rather have Lio visiting in a nursing home - or if you want to point out the plight of vets, this could have been a Vietnam vet or even an Iraq/Afghanistan vet.