Michael Ramirez for November 09, 2019

Two good comics in such a short span of time! Are you sure you want to risk raising the bar for yourself, Mike? We might start expecting more from you!

Trump Disciples’ reverence for veterans, almost makes you almost believe they would not worship a draft dodger with ‘bone spurs’.

I don’t need thanks. I need the government to do more to help all the veterans who have sacrificed on behalf of their country. Veterans need programs that supply jobs after they are done serving. Training and education to prepare them for jobs and positions available in the job market. Health care for the wounds, both physical and psychological received during their service. Housing assistance so they don’t end up on the streets. Family assistance to help keep their families intact and help the families who may not know how to deal with that parent or spouse that had to endure harsh conditions.

We ask so much for these people, and praise them for their service, usually after they die. If they don’t and come back wounded or broken, they suddenly become a “burden” on our “overtaxed health systems” and we “can’t afford” to spend money to help out.

By golly, we didn’t think of that when we threw them out there in situations where they became injured and broken in the first place. We expect them to either come back, whole and hale, or the noble fallen, carried back on their shields, to be praised, buries, and forgotten until Memorial Day (where we have a barbecue in their honor), or Veterans day, where we mutter a few meaningless thanks and prepare for Thanksgiving.

How about doing something for them on Veteran’s Day instead of mumbling something at them. Talk is cheap and actions speak louder then words, and there’s deafening silence in the action column, outside the military community.

Again, I don’t need your thanks. I served my country for 20 years and was lucky enough to find something that’s enabled me to continue serving for almost 25 more (and counting). I’m one of the lucky ones. I wish there were more.

Nothing about his orange idol stealing money from veterans with his fake foundation? Platitudes don’t help veterans at all, Mr. Ramirez.

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SERVED TO PROTECT AMERICA!

Thanks, Michael.

Should not use the occasion to glorify all wars. Some wars were bad, wrong, and illegal.Rather use the occasion to point out the horrors of war and the need to solve international issues in a less barbaric way.

It’s so easy to say “thank you.” How about putting something substantial behind those empty words?

Why then Mr. Ramirez, do you support a president that does the opposite of your cartoon?

Thanks, Mr. Ramirez.

How soon until the extreme left comes for Vet’s Day? They’re already grumbling about Thanksgiving. Christmas will be in their sites, eventually.

I.. thank the old vets… those defended our country when it was under attack.. the current crop seems to be defending.. what? Political presence? Financial benefit to local governments?

Is that flag being planted in the rubble of other countries or the rubble of our former American ethics.

…but thank you.

Somehow it seems important to remember Ira Hayes.Ira Hamilton Hayes (January 12, 1923 – January 24, 1955) was a Pima Native American and a United States Marine who was one of the six flag raisers immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II.56 Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Pima Indian Reservation located in the Pinal and Maricopa counties in Arizona. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on August 26, 1942, and, after recruit training, volunteered to become a Paramarine. He fought in the Bougainville and Iwo Jima campaigns in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. On February 23, 1945, he helped to raise an American flag over Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, an event photographed by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press. Hayes and the other five flag-raisers became national heroes as a result. In 1946, he was instrumental in revealing the identity of one of the other pictured Marines, who was killed in action on Iwo Jima. However, Hayes was never comfortable with his fame, and after his service in the Marine Corps he descended into alcoholism. He died of exposure to cold and alcohol poisoning after a night of heavy drinking on January 23–24, 1955. He was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on February 2, 1955. Hayes was commemorated in art and film, before and after his death. In 1949, he portrayed himself raising the flag in the motion picture movie, Sands of Iwo Jima. A giant Marine figure of Hayes raising the flag on Iwo Jima with the other five participants is included on the 1954 Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. Check out the songs by Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.

You’re welcome.

Nicely done, Mike ♥

Thanks, Michael. We appreciate it. You Right-wing-nut.

… I see a thankful America, wishing to honor those who have choose to serve our country in uniform…

… for veterans day, I choose not to take away from that with partisan bickering over cartoon…

Outstanding cartoon today, Michael. I wonder why we never see your ‘toons in the mainstream newspapers? Oh. Wait. I know it’s because they’re all LIBERALS!