Random Thoughts: 'Peanuts' cartoons are timeless
Here it is Friday and I don't have any clue as to what to write. Pat Wick, I'm with you.
Are you a comic fan? I am and I don't like it when the newspaper makes changes. The Wichita Eagle is adding some new ones and deleting some old ones. There is one old one missing, "Peanuts."
"Peanuts" was my comfort comic. I know the artist is gone but his old drawings are still good enough to make me smile.
Now, let's get serious. I have just read a book, "The American Home Front, 1941-1942." It seems some of the papers of Alistair Cooke have come to light and recently have been published in the book. The author, an Englishman turned American, died in 2004. In the book, he describes a drive he took from his home in New York, down the East Coast, along the southern coast, west to California, up the California coast, east through the cattle country. He even makes it to Salina and Kansas City. He drives through the Great Lakes country and back to his home. He talks to people along the way and talks about how Americans are taking to World War II and how they lived during that time. It is really a brief history of those times. I found it very interesting. It is so easy to forget those hard times and should remind us that wars are not good for any country.
— NORMA HANNAFORD
