![]() That generation of Americans was focused on survival and winning the war. ![]() My conclusion is that what they want from their leaders now is more complicated than it was for leaders and their men during World War II. When I started thinking about Willie and Joe and those officers looking at the view, I wanted to lay out what I thought "enlisted men" want in 2020. It was to get them winter clothes and boots, blankets and rations, cut them slack when they broke a few rules, and not take chances with their lives. What Willie and Joe wanted their leaders to do, however, was more practical than finding them views of the scenery. ![]() The two begrimed GIs were not alienated from their officers as they seem to be today. Me buttons is in the way." They relied on each other because a buddy when you were under fire increased the odds of surviving and getting home. Once strangers, they shared the intimacy of shell holes, dry socks, liberated schnapps, places near a fire, and the tricks of survival. in particular but inseparable because they needed each other. Willie and Joe were from no part of the U.S. ![]() Quite the contrary Mauldin always drew them close to the earth - in foxholes, leaning against collapsing walls or slouching wearily and rain-soaked through littered battlefields and skeletal villages. The central figures in Mauldin's World War II cartoons were Willie and Joe, two war-weary, mud- and dust-smeared enlisted men who were not looking out at mountain tops. ![]()
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