Casualties of war on the funny pages

Casualties of war on the funny pages
Soldiers’ stories ring true in ‘Doonesbury’
By Gene Weingarten
Washington Post

Iraq war vets Brian Anderson, 25, left, and Latseen Benson, 26, with cartoonist Garry Trudeau in April at Fran O’Brien’s Steak House in Washington.
Washington Post photos
Garry Trudeau, shown in his Manhattan, N.Y., studio with a collection of Beatles figures, says he’s been unfairly accused of having courage.
In the banquet room were men who were blind, men with burns, men with gouges, men missing an arm, men missing a leg, men missing an arm and a leg, men missing an arm and both legs, men missing parts of their faces, and a cartoonist from the funny pages.
We were at a steakhouse just a few blocks from the White House. The restaurant was hosting a night out for casualties of the current war, visiting from their hospital wards.