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<\/p>\nDad’s WW II Cartoons: “Gremlin Gazette’<\/p>\n
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Afternoon, Gentle Readers!<\/p>\n
A curious thing happened after a cheery celebratory digestive id inadvertently sloshed itself over the old Laptop. Although it eventually dried out over the months of June and July, but the office situation was becoming a major irritant, There was a hasty effort to replace it, and an exciting time of toggling between small hard drives and the ChatGPT program began to turn up folders and direcgories I had not seen in four or five generations of computers.<\/p>\n
These were in files dating to their discovery in a folder in Dad’s paper records after his passing in 2012, I photographed then with the idea I would do a book of Dad’s pre-1950s art, but the near simultaneous departure of Mom made things pile up. i have no idea where the originals are now.<\/p>\n
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\nThese portraits were the ones in Dad’s office and the Boys room when we were growing up.<\/p>\n
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\nThe images on the left and right are particularly evocative since the Marine has been on my wall since I was a kid, and Dad did the Churchill portrait as a Christmas gift the year Winston passed on.<\/p>\n
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