Phil Reisman

A Kemper Cartoon

September

A picture says a thousand words.

James Fleming, a Larchmont architect, gives his take on the Kemper Memorial Park issue with a cartoon that’s worthy of Bill Mauldin, the late Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist whose depictions of the bedraggled Willie and Joe dogfaces of World War II were beloved by G.I.s. and civilians alike.

Fleming’s drawing should be incorporated into a logo for the cause of saving the memorial.

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2 Responses to “A Kemper Cartoon”

Rich September 14th, 2006 at 9:37 am
That’s a great cartoon! I sent your letter to the board as directed. I received their response a few days later with their excuses as to why they want to do what they plan on doing. They suck. Maybe when Spano writes your column(when?), he should throw in his 2 cents.
A.L. Hern September 28th, 2006 at 3:42 am
Odd that this should come in the wake of the construction of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., the first and only public work ever to be allowed to cut across the Mall and Reflecting Pool that stretches between the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial (it also has the unintended consequence of sending a none-too-subtle message that all other non-WWII military personnel are veterans of second-rate conflicts fought for second-rate reasons. Not very conducive to Armed Forces’ recruitment drives for little dust-ups like Iraq).

The national memorial’s design is lacking in numerous ways (Albert Speer, architect?), but perhaps it could take a cue from the Kemper plan by adding a suitably grand basketball court to the design.

The National Mall’s never had one of those, either.

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