Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 27, 2022

since when do Halloween and Veterans’ Day coincide with one another?

I had to look this up because I was confused. For those who don’t know from 1971-1977 Veteran’s Day was celebrated on the fourth Monday of October before being returned to its original date of November 11th in 1978, when its been celebrated ever since.

Veterans day on the “11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month”. 11.11. Halloween October 31 (or 31.10 in my country). They are looking for the Great Veteran?

Funfact: when this strip first came out in 1975, it was Veteran’s Day on October 27, 1975, it was Veteran’s Day thanks to the Uniform Monday Holidays act which put Veteran’s Day on the 4th Monday of October in the 1970’s , the holiday would be put back on the November 11 in 1978.

Bill Mauldin is a real person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mauldin

Thank you to those who looked up this confusing date and straightened us out. I did not know that! Thank you to all Veterans too.

Wow, Linus…really?

I think Snoopy has a quaffing problem.

Linus, show some respect for the people who fought for our country against their will.

Veterans Day is November 11. The United States Marine Corps Birthday is November 10.

The best. It’s ok to substitute your local Bill Mauldin. He would have understood.

Birch beer is so much better than root beer but you can rarely find it…

Last I checked Veteran’s Day was November 11th.

Veteran’s Day, originally Armistice Day following WW I, Nov 11 beginning 1918. Armistice Day made legal federal holiday 1938. Named changed to Veteran’s Day on Nov 11 per request of Korean War Vets in 1954. 1971 dates changed to October. Changed back to Veteran’s Day Nov 11 in 1978 Nov. Remember to always bring the flag to full staff first and then lower to half-staff. No accompanying flags (state, corporate, associations, POW/MIA, similar not to be raised to full or half staff until after the US Flag raised to full staff and lowered to half staff. Thank you. (101st, 82nd, 173rd Airborne and 5th, 10th, Laos unit Special Forces)

in 1975 everyone knew Bill Mauldin, I wonder how many reading today’s strip will have to google the name

Snoopy should do some practice shooting on some pumpkins.

Got scared for a moment that today was Veterans’ Day.

OK, I’m dumb about some things, but even I know that Veteran’s Day is on the 11th day of the 11th month.

Explanation for the date is given in several of the comments above yours.

I had forgotten, in my high school years it was under the Monday Holiday Bill. Vets remembered it’s 11/11 at 11:11 everybody quit shooting at everybody. Easy to remember. Most still called it Armistice Day when I was a kid.

Poor Ernie Pyle.Passed over again.

I remember when the date of Veteran’s Day was changed, and when it was changed back. It was done to make a three-day weekend out of it. I was in college at the time. When the same thing happened to Washington’s Birthday, we had a “Changing of Washington’s Birthday” party. (5 of us got snowed-in at a 1 room hunting cabin with only one recording to listen to— a Grateful Dead cassette tape. ) That was more memorable than spending the night in a pumpkin patch. We tried that too, onHalloween eve two years before, except not a pumpkin patch, a cemetery in Baltimore. It had become a tradition to try it. Like most, we failed. (we were out after curfew.) The gendarmes showed up. We were asked to move along.

From Kurt Vonnegut: “This used to be a day in honor of the dead of World War One, but the living couldn’t keep their grubby hands off of it, wanted the glory of the dead for themselves. So typical, so typical. Any time anything of real dignity appears in this country, it’s torn to shreds and thrown to the mob.”

Proud of you Soopy

Good ole Bill Mauldin, I can see now, Snoopy, Willie, and Joe sitting in a fox hole quaffing a few rooters.

Think the veterans understand Snoopy a bit more.

Quaff and coif are homonyms.

It’s a few weeks early, but I support the sentiment.

I haven’t read it yet, but not long ago I found a copy of Bill Mauldin’s Up Front, from 1945, at an antiques store.

Now I will have to go break out some of my old readings by Bill Mauldin! Thanks for the memories.