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Frank Phillips calls the ball, placing soldiers along the winding road in Afghanistan and Iraq, humor—often dark, absurd, and/or twisted—is.
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Peter Lang. Search Close. Advanced Search Help. Show Less Restricted access. Buy eBook. Currency depends on your shipping address.
- Made in the Trenches: a WW1 Magazine Created by Soldiers (1916).
- Now what? : Photo | Military humor, Military memes, Military quotes.
- Valley of the Vanishing Men (Prologue Western)?
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. Sign in to annotate. It runs until Nov. His sense of humor was universal for all soldiers.
Military Jokes
Vernon Grant was born Feb. At 3, Grant started drawing birthday cards and some science fiction, his widow wrote.
That started his lifelong love affair with the craft. Encouraged by his father Joseph Grant Sr. He played baseball and basketball in high school and was a multi-state champion weight lifter. He developed a lifelong passion for running. Two of his brothers had served in the military and Grant was inspired to serve his country.
He also hoped to gain secure employment and travel the world.
The Twisted Genius of Soldier Humor - Jokes in Wartime
Grant at 23 joined the Army in , with segregation still a dehumanizing force in the United States. He took and passed infantry and airborne training courses. Grant made captain in and went to Vietnam a year later, where he commanded the Signal Security Force — men guarding 23 communications sites scattered the length of Vietnam. His tour lasted 13 months. One of those men was Medal of Honor recipient Army 1st Sgt.
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Maximo Yabes, who was killed in action in After Grant died, Betsy Grant released an old, unpublished strip he had authored where he gave his friend Yabes a ribbing for being a bit too motivated during drills. In one strip, four Asian men walk in a line, all wearing the conical bamboo hats worn by farmers and associated with the region. Three are skinny, but one has a large belly. In another, two soldiers are in a foxhole at what appears to be nighttime.
One looks out, a look of shock on his face. Grant — who was quiet, scholarly and more apt to listen than to speak — left the military in , after 10 years of service. He enrolled in classes at the Jesuit Sophia University, which had a campus in the Yotsuya area of Tokyo. He met his wife in Japan in It added new dimensions to his style and abilities. Grant sold all 13, copies that were printed.
The book is available today through online retailers thanks to Betsy Grant, who is working to keep his memory alive. He told reporters in that his popularity among front-line soldiers was a bit overwhelming. I still get embarrassed when I meet someone on the street who recognizes me. Grant and Betsy moved to Massachusetts in and were married five years later.