Doonesbury - Sunday December 1, 1985 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Zonker: Curtis, tell me about Greneda. Curtis: What can I say, man? It has a mistique. Zonker: What is that, do you suppose? Curtis: Any country with 7,000 founding fathers is bound to be a little different, dude. Zonker: Curtis, now that it's safely behind you, what did you really think of the Grenada invasion? Curtis: Well, to be honest, Zonk, as a rescuee I wasn't real impressed at first. After all, it took 7,000 U.S. servicemen three days to defeat 679 Cubans. Only 50 of whom were actual soldiers. But as it turns out, it must have been a lot tougher than I thought. The Pentagon awarded 19,600 medals, including 680 bronze stars, and 4,561 army commendation medals. That comes to almost 30 medals per defeated Cuban. Virtually anyone remotely connected to the planning or execution of the invasion was given a medal. Zonker: Gosh. So Grenada was sort of a special Olympics for the military? Curtis: Right. That kind of individual encouragement is very important.

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