'It's Jimmy himself. Pass the word.' [ Michael Ramirez letter]
Nick Glakas, Bethesda
Washington Post January 18 2025: A15.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/17/carter-funeral-medal-honor-polyamory-trump/
My compliments to Michael Ramirez for his spectacular Jan. 10 editorial cartoon, "A life of service," on the death of Jimmy Carter. It immediately brought to mind another great editorial cartoon, by the legendary Bill Mauldin in 1969 for the Chicago Sun-Times.
I received that cartoon in a letter from my father while I was serving aboard a D-Day-era LST in the Mekong Delta. My father, his four brothers, three brothers-in-law and two cousins, all Washington boys, had served when Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944. The cartoon, commemorating Eisenhower's death in 1969, showed a row of marble crosses at a military cemetery with the caption "It's Ike himself. Pass the word." It brought tears to my eyes then and brings tears to my eyes now. Two cartoonists, 56 years apart, recognizing the deaths of two American presidents in two simple but memorable political cartoons.
You've given him the business. Now give us the business. [ Scott Adams, "Dilbert" letter]
Jim Stahl, Orange Village, Ohio
Washington Post January 18 2025: A15.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/17/carter-funeral-medal-honor-polyamory-trump/
In this season of pardons, both by President Joe Biden and by soon-to-be President Donald Trump, might The Post consider one for Scott Adams, creator of "Dilbert"?
As reprehensible as Adams's comments in the real world might have been, his comments on life at the office in the comic strip world were one of the best things on those pages. Please let Dilbert, Wally and Pointy-Haired Boss return!
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