03-18-2005, 02:23 PM
This cartoon featuring the weary, dogface GIs 'Willie and Joe,' was created by Sergeant Bill Mauldin of United Feature Syndicate, Inc., who as a young Army rifleman during World War II gave newspaper readers back home a sardonic, foxhole-level view of the front.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/whmauldin.htm
Just give me the aspirin. I already got a Purple Heart."