Red and Rover by Brian Basset for December 07, 2021

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    sipsienwa Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Very good. Thank you.

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    GeorgeInAZ  almost 3 years ago

    Adds some perspective to cold, hard history. Thank you.

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    LoisG Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Red and Rover never cease to strike just the right note when remembering important historic events. For those of us who were lived through these experiences – it is shocking that so many who vowed to “never forget” – HA E forgotten! When we went to the movies during those years, we could see animated cartoons of Nancy, Sluggo and their friends, singing and dancing and doing public service announcements, reminding everyone of all which could be done to support the men and women in military service. Mutt and Jeff, Gasoline Alley and Alley Oop all had strips and story arcs which were also supportive of military personnel. Every family had family members, loved ones, friends and neighbors who were directly affected by the events in Europe and in Asia. With our Direct TV subscriptions, years ago, the music channels included a 1940s channel and, on December 7, they would replay many of the radio programs which were on the air when the news about the attack came across the wires and the announcements which were broadcast as the various stations announced the news. What would have been great today would have been for some of those historic strips to reprint the original strips which addressed these events. Red and Rover deserve a lot of appreciation for their decision to acknowledge December 7, 2021 – the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor!

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    yoey1957  almost 3 years ago

    After spending two months in boot camp and an additional two months in advanced training I showed up at my duty station where they handed me the keys to a 52 ton combat tank. I was 18. Thankyou, Brian. And thanks to the men and women in uniform guarding the gates!

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    I have met two Pearl Harbor survivors in my time. One was a native Hawaiian who was a seven-year-old boy leaving Sunday school when the attack started.

    The other had been a sailor who was so badly wounded that the Navy discharged him, believing he’d never walk again. But recover he did, but the Navy refused to take him back, so he lied about his prior service and enlisted in the Army. When I met him he was the president of the 82nd Airborne Association, so I assume he was at Normandy and the Bulge. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought his story could only be found in fiction.

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    stillfickled Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    I was wondering if any cartoonist was going to remember Pearl Harbor Day. Thank you, Brian!! Excellent strip.

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    Charliegirl Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    My uncle Charles was at Pearl Harbor but fortunately survived. A year and four days later I was born and named after him (Charlotte).

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    rentier  almost 3 years ago

    A really sad occurrence! You can cry!

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    jmworacle  almost 3 years ago

    Thank goodness foreign policy ended at the border at that time.

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    mobeydick  almost 3 years ago

    And if America had not been ‘encouraged’ to enter the war? I am pretty sure the Allies would have defeated Nazisism, but not the further advance of the Soviets.

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    jr1234  almost 3 years ago

    TCM , today at 1:30 pm ET

    “DECEMBER 7th” (1943)
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    jr1234  almost 3 years ago

    https://www.gocomics.com/redandrover/2018/12/07

    https://www.gocomics.com/redandrover/2014/12/07

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    Catfeet Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Leave it to Red, Rover, and Brian to put things in proper perspective. Thanks for remembering!

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    phnx1965  almost 3 years ago

    Thank you for Remembering!

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    rhtatro  almost 3 years ago

    My biology professor, 98 years old, manned the searchlight on the battleship Nevada. Served on her all the way to Okinawa. Charles Sehe, Mankato, MN, you are my hero!!!!

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    Zebrastripes  almost 3 years ago

    Awww! So many lives lost!

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    LadyPeterW  almost 3 years ago

    Thank you, Brian!!! My Dad enlisted in the Air Force, my FIL in the Army. The man who would become my Step-Father-In-Law, was a lil young when it started, but ended up in the British Navy…

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    mymontana  almost 3 years ago

    Thank You, Brian – always so appropriate and tender

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    mymontana  almost 3 years ago

    Hard to believe isn’t it Red – those boys were your brothers age

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    rhpii  almost 3 years ago

    Thanks for Remembering.

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    David Jones Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Red’s remembrance and tributes are always so touching!

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    PoodleGroomer  almost 3 years ago

    War is war. For every Pearl Harbor, there is an Adak, Alaska.

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    rentier  almost 3 years ago

    I try everything to prevent wars, I hate them!!

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    Jeffin Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Oh. My heart. Thank you. Good boys.

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    jlsnell327  almost 3 years ago

    Good way to put that memory into terms that those who do not remember it first hand, or from first hand accounts, can relate to.

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    TArbiter  almost 3 years ago

    My dad’s friend Jack Brady was at Pearl Harbor, aboard the USS Utah. He was blown overboard when an explosion rocked the ship. He made his way to shore and remained in the Navy for the duration of the war. When he died in 2008 his ashes were placed in the wreckage of the ship at the USS Utah Memorial. He never forgot his shipmates, and neither should we forget them or all the others who perished that day. Thanks Brian.

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    rickmac1937 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
    Brian always can depend on you to remember Important dates in our history thank you again
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    sarahbowl1 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Red is so thoughtful and knowledgeable, too! Keep Rover educated ;) My mom had a friend who died that day. Very sad and monumental. The greatest generation had a mighty task before them, that’s for sure.

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    Claymore Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Pearl Harbor caused my dad (age 17) to try to enlist as a Navy corpsman. He didn’t score high enough on the test, so the recruiter suggested he finish high school and try again. For some reason he didn’t enter active service until August, 1944. I suspect he was considered an “essential farm worker”, since he was still on the family farm near Newkirk, OK. When he did enlist he wound up in VPB-101 as a top-turret gunner on a PB-1W, the Navy version of a B-17G that was modified to carry a large airborne radar. This was the very beginning of what later became the AWACS. The war ended a couple of months before he would have been shipped to the PTO, so he never saw combat. His father — my grandfather — was just a couple of weeks from being shipped over to France in the First World War, when that one ended. I lucked out having two generations serve in the military but never saw action.

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    Bill D. Kat Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Not just America’s greatest generation to fight and defeat two super powerful enemies to preserve freedom but also the entire world’s.

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    Jpapenbrock  almost 3 years ago

    Thank you for Remembering..

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    kathleenhicks62  almost 3 years ago

    I am impressed that Red knows about this day. He must have good parents that taught him.

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    Su Jones  almost 3 years ago

    Made me cry! Thanks for the reminder.

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    MIKEWA61  almost 3 years ago

    Kinda sad that many people are clueless about this.

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    raybarb44  almost 3 years ago

    War takes the best and bravest of all mankind. Thank you……

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    lawguy05  almost 3 years ago

    AWESOME strip, Brian. Thank you.

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    RonnieAThompson Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Some years ago I blessed to meet several Pearl Harbor WWII Navy members. We were riding the local shuttle bus.

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    RonnieAThompson Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    A BIG THANK YOU to Our Veterans. Because of your sacrifices I was born in a free country. I owe you a debt that I can never repay. God Bless You All.

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    Tammie Weber  almost 3 years ago

    Thank you for remembering! You are the best!

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    Teddy bear Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    When I was in the Navy, in 1956, I had the honor of stand and watch on the Tennessee and California battleships, that were in Philadelphia Navy Yard reserve Fleet, my Chief Petty Officer was on the ship at Pearl Harbor. He gave me a very moving history of that day. I will never forget that day. God bless America, and God bless America service men and women

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    asrialfeeple  almost 3 years ago

    May they rest in peace, Red.

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Thank You for this Brian… as a Veteran, I salute you and today’s strip.

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    PPMKS  almost 3 years ago

    80 years ago today…

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    one-non_blonde  almost 3 years ago

    let’s not forget, the price of freedom is not free. Honor those who sacrifice….

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    Doug Boston  almost 3 years ago

    Thanks! for remembering Pearl Harbor

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    WentHulk  almost 3 years ago

    good point Red

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    Thank you so much, Brian.

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    DrPat Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Brian, Thank you for remembering! Of all the comics I follow daily, you are the only one to remember our troops consistently. I’m a Viet Nam vet, and it means a great deal to me that you remember. Dr. Pat in AK.

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    wknehans  almost 3 years ago

    Well done, Brian!

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    oldsmkysyvr  almost 3 years ago

    Thank you to all who served and thanks for all who commented on this comic strip, and especially to the guy responsible for this strip for taking the time to express such an important sentiment.

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    pbr50138  almost 3 years ago

    At some point, all of the WW2 Vets will be gone. I remember when the last Civil War soldier passed.

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