This is
Memorial Day Weekend. This weekend we
are trying to show appreciation for the American military. So,
here is another true war story, illustrated.
The time we
went to war with ourselves. We
won. We lost. The actual first shot was fired at Fort
Sumter in Charleston Bay, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861. It was the first shot to start this nation's
Civil War.
By the way,
once we took a tour of Fort Sumter Island, out in the Charleston Bay. Did you know it is not a natural island? Huge rocks were shipped down the coast from
New England and the rocks and boulders were dumped in the exact spot over and
over. Can you imagine how huge of a
project this was? Without the use of
power machinery.... it boggles my mind to even think of the huge task involved.
The story
was written by EC's FRONTLINE
COMBAT Comicbook's editor Harvey
Kurtzman, but to be honest, History wrote really wrote it. Will Elder and John Severin were the artists.
Kurtzman,
Elder, and Severin were long time friends and business partners. They were three of the five original artistic
staff of MAD Comicbook.
click on each image in order to make it larger so you can make sense of what it is about.
From EC's FRONTLINE COMBAT Comicbook, #9
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