Willie and Joe are cryin' in their beers.
Jan. 23rd, 2003 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoBill Mauldin is dead.
One of the more jaw-droppingly clueless reviews I read of Saving Private Ryan asserted that a major problem with the movie was that it showed a self-doubting moral ambivalence about War that everyone knows only came to be with the Boomers and Vietnam.
{snort}
While there were others that I thought of as refutations of that -- Spike Milligan, Norman Mailer, Paul Fussell, and the fact that this was the generation that gave us fubar and snafu -- Bill Mauldin was in the crowd. I, too, read Up Front at a young age, and still quote from it. (A recurring one when I think I'll get something done eventually, just not right this second: "Artillery? I gotta target for ya, but ya gotta be patient...")
Ave, Bill. Hope you get to see the Officers' Sunset.
One of the more jaw-droppingly clueless reviews I read of Saving Private Ryan asserted that a major problem with the movie was that it showed a self-doubting moral ambivalence about War that everyone knows only came to be with the Boomers and Vietnam.
{snort}
While there were others that I thought of as refutations of that -- Spike Milligan, Norman Mailer, Paul Fussell, and the fact that this was the generation that gave us fubar and snafu -- Bill Mauldin was in the crowd. I, too, read Up Front at a young age, and still quote from it. (A recurring one when I think I'll get something done eventually, just not right this second: "Artillery? I gotta target for ya, but ya gotta be patient...")
Ave, Bill. Hope you get to see the Officers' Sunset.
