Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 11, 1998

Transcript:

Roland: Of course, everything I've taught you here today means squat if it's not put to the test, if it's not tempered by fire! Like the time I got the call to take the last flight into Saigon for the big end game, the last bad hand, a time when it was tough to tell the living from the dead! No words can describe the horror, and yet summon them you must! War gives you no choice. When you're in it, war is the only truth there is! Donald Pica: But isn't there the danger of romanticizing it? Roland: I wouldn't know. I missed the plane.