Peanuts by Charles Schulz for February 15, 1986
Transcript:
The World War I Flying Ace lies in a hospital bed. Marcie smiles and says, "Bonjour, monsieur . . . How are you feeling today? I brought you a newspaper . . ."<BR><BR> Marcie looks at the newspaper and says, "I thought you might like to have me read to you . . . The war is still going badly . . ."<BR><BR> Marcie continues, "The troopship 'Leviathan' docked at Brest with ten thousand men aboard; four thousand of them had the flu . ."<BR><BR> Snoopy thinks, "Don't you have any comic books?"<BR><BR>
Yeah, I don’t think the news during a wartime epidemic is exactly the uplifting thing a sick person needs to get his spirits up…