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I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergents and jeeps which jump over mountains.

— Bill Mauldin Up Front (1945)

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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

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