B.D.'s war injury shows serious side of 'Doonesbury'

B.D.'s war injury shows serious side of 'Doonesbury'

WASHINGTON -- Because of the "Doonesbury" comic strip, millions of Americans have a face for the thousands of injured soldiers back from Iraq struggling to reassemble their lives.

He's B.D., the long-running cartoon character who went to Iraq as a National Guardsman and lost a leg when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his Humvee.

...snip

"Injuring B.D. was a way of keeping the focus on the travails of a wounded warrior over a sustained period of time, something conventional journalism has difficulty doing," Trudeau said in an e-mail. "No matter where you stand on this war, averting your eyes from its terrible cost is unconscionable."

...snip

[follow link for full article]