Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 30, 2013

I think Dora’s friend prefers swinging around in trees.

Oh, goody. No PETA people pestering Pig for some animal-cruelty-sounding misunderstandings.

Boots on the ground is fine with me….As long as they’re over here, on our ground….There’s a lot of ground we don’t need to be grindin’…..

Okay, Pig: ‘fess up! Are those boots real leather? (The PETA terrorists want to know.) Where the deuce did they come from all of a sudden? (I want to know). Can we blame this sudden materialization for the sake of a weak joke on Cartoon-Boy? (Nobody wants to know, but I thought I’d ask anyway.)

They are putting boots on the ground again. One pair belongs to my son.

@S37M – I’m with you. Saying “putting boots on the ground” takes the personal side out of the equation. Makes it sound like it’s just an expendable resource, like so much toilet paper.

THOSE ARE PEOPLE! They are someon’es sons, daughters, husbands, wives, mothers or fathers. They need to be treated with all due respect… not just counted as another tooth on the cogs of a war machine.

@Tom Freimann:

Brightest Blessings to you and your son, may he be safe. You and your son have our gratitude for your sacrifices on our behalf. We thank you!

Must be nice to be in a comic strip and be able to come up with any object you need immediately.

Good one – but it’s “naugas.” That’s ok – I thought it was “hide.”

You’ve got to love Pig’s cluelessness in this one.

xxx

Lame strip today.

Now that I am retired they can have my boots.

you should count the non-American dead too

How many members of our congress have sons or daughters on active duty?

At the gas station, I saw someone had a Marine Vet hat on his dash. I took the time to go over and say I saw his hat and thanks for his service. I think I made his day.

If everyone had Pig’s approach to war, there wouldn’t be any.