HITS AND MISSES
Aug 07, 2018
3 minutes
Has Sad Sack Gone AWOL?
What’s happened to Sad Sack, Beetle Bailey, Willie and Joe, and Sergeant Bilko? They—and other characters like them—seem to have gone missing.
I wonder whether popular culture has transformed yesterday’s doughboys and GIs into heroes and warriors. Are not at least some of today’s heroes actually REMFs? Did all the yard-birds and goldbricks disappear from the military with the end of conscription? Is this just one symptom of the huge and growing civil-military divide?
Could , , or be produced today? Is society afraid to laugh?
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