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Bill Mauldin gets stamped. - 3/7/2010 7:59:33 AM

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/07/greene.mauldin.stamp/index.html?hpt=C1

Mauldin is almost entirely forgotten today. But he chronicled World War II from a view nobody else ever did - unglamorous, day by day, from the POV of the grunts on the front lines who never asked for their jobs but did their weary best.

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RE: Bill Mauldin gets stamped. - 3/7/2010 10:04:09 AM

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Good deal.

I remember being exposed to his work when I was a kid; we got the World Book encyclopedia annuals, and one year they profiled him, and I've always fondly remembered what he accomplished.

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RE: Bill Mauldin gets stamped. - 3/7/2010 11:14:47 AM

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Oh sure, "Willie and Joe."
In the 50's we had those history books that showed pictures of Japs blown to pieces on Iwo Jima or someplace like that and no-one was "offended."
I wonder when all that "offended" crap started anyway?

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