Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 01, 2014

The other guys had the home field advantage.

Phred?

@dtroutmaShhhh!

Originally run on 16 Feb 1972http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1972/02/16#.UzpUyKhdUd0 Jungle meeting

Mike

oh, this does take me back…I’d forgotten all about Phred!

Phred!

Phred speaks with a dialect. Go figure.

“Vely”? Huh, I never noticed that before.

Hi, Phred!!

and it’s 5-6-7-8open up the pearly gates,ain’t no time to wonder why,WHOOPIE! We’re all gonna die!

S.H.L.I.T.Z? BEER!! LOL

@mightaswellbeMcDonald did 3 years in the Navy but it was before US involvement in Nam escalated.

That’s no April Fool joke, that’s Phred!

We actually sang that song on the final leg of the flight to Vietnam.

Phred!

Played ‘advisor’ ‘59 to ’61… fun days.. never knew what fun we’d have in future. Wish it never WAS, nor had been. I’m old and (allegedly) regained my senses. Foreign Adventurism ain’t for me no more. At least I don’t have to depend on the VA to ‘fix me’..I’ll let the young troops have my seat.

Enter Phredd!!!!!

That was a really long jump- we missed all the rest of BD’s college career, enlistment and training.

So…1977, High school math class had too many boys named John. So I volunteered to be known as Phred. I have not thought of that since then. Nice to see my namesake back and in color, too.

BTW: My first cockatiel was named: Phred. I also knew when in ’Nam a number of friendly “Phreds”, who I liked a lot better than the Saigon stooges. The “Yards”, were also great, and mostly just wanted BOTH sides to just leave them alone.

@Lorenzo BrowncoatHere is the start of the ROTC arc:-http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1971/06/

@Lorenzo BrownSorry about that. Here is the link for the ROTC arc:-http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1971/06/12

These strips seem like yesterday. So far, I’ve recalled every one of them. CT had his finger on the pulse of our generation like nobody else, and still does. Perhaps nobody else, anywhere, ever, has chronicled the life of a generation like he has. It is a unique achievement. Congrats, GT.

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