Thinking about how when Doonesbury, which had been born as a college newspaper cartoon against the Vietnam War, treated Iraq I/Desert Storm it was kind of presented as a Boomer reconnection with a yay-U.S. Military ethic, B.D.-as-troop treated more seriously than when he got lost and had to be rescued by Vietcong Phred*, and then for Iraq II/the sandbox wars it just did an Adventures in Military Trauma Care plotline three! times!

* who was maybe related to the boat people refugee orphan who later got reused as the self-insert character’s Younger Asian Girlfriend In The 90s After Your First Wife part of the Boomer Epic