In around 1985 the Beetle Baily comic had Old Sarge saying, "I'll be darned. The 97th Infantry Division is having a reunion." My Dad, then a Washington Post local news columnist, was a 97th ID combat vet. He phoned the cartoonist, Mort Walker, and asked him about the reference to the 97th. Walker said had been an enlisted guy in the 97th until he entered OCS. After being commissioned he commanded a POW compound in Italy in '45. Dad wrote a warm column about it at a time when DoD and the Reagan administration regarded the Post as an arch-enemy. Political allegiances and loyalties are not always as simple as they seem. As a career newspaperman Dad may have met Mauldin; he introduced me to the Post's Herblock on two occasions when I was a kid.