Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 28, 1990

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B.D.: All you new guys keep talking about is "getting it over with." Like combat is a trip to the dentist's office! No way, man! That's not what war is! War means so much terror you age five years in a month! War is watching your best buddy suddenly lose half his face! War means praying you'll get wounded so you won't get killed! That's what war is! Any questions? Soldier: Yeah, do we still call the enemy "Charlie"? Soldier 2: I heard it was "Ralph"!