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“It Still Holds True” (February 22, 1968) By Eddie Germano

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Title:	“It Still Holds True” (February 22, 1968) By Eddie Germano
Artist:	Eddie Germano (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Added to Site:	9/12/2019
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“It Still Holds True” (February 22, 1968)
By Eddie Germano (1924 - )
11 x 15, ink and wash on board

A native Bostonian, Germano became a full-time cartoonist in 1948, at age 24, after serving in WWII. Among other positions, he worked as the editorial and sports cartoonist for the Brockton Enterprise from 1963-1990.

Pro-military social commentary from Washington’s Birthday, 1968... might makes right!

Elsewhere in February 1968:

The first Lunar New Year (Tet) of the Vietnam war with no ceasefire. This is the start of the most active year of the war. During South Vietnamese action on February 1, an American photographer photographs Offensive General Nguyen Ngọc Loan as he executes a Viet Cong prisoner. The iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph becomes yet another rallying point for anti-war protesters.

During the week of February 11–17, 1968 the record for the highest US casualty toll during one week was set. The record, coming off after the Tet Offensive, was 543 Americans killed in action and 2547 wounded.

On February 27, Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted man in America,” reporting after his recent trip to Vietnam for his television special "Who, What, When, Where, Why?" gives a highly critical editorial and urges America to leave Vietnam "...not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.”

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