Doonesbury.com's The Sandbox: Dispatches from Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

by G. B. Trudeau (Introduction), David Stanford (Editor)

Overview

An anthology of stories from American servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan from the military blog launched by the creator of Doonesbury.

In 2006, Gary Trudeau launched The Sandbox, an online forum where service members in could share their stories with readers at home. In hundreds of compelling posts, soldiers wrote movingly of their day-to-day lives, of their mission, and of the drama that unfolds daily around them.

A dog adopts a unit on patrol in Baghdad and guards its flank; a soldier chronicles an epic day of close-call encounters with IEDs; an Afghan translator talks earnestly with his American friend about love and theology; a dad far from home meditates on time and history in the desert night under ancient stars; a Chuck Norris action figure witnesses surreal moments of humor in the cramped cab of a Humvee.

Doonesbury.com's The Sandbox presents a rich outpouring of stories, from the hilarious to the thrilling to the heartbreaking, and helps us understand what so many of our countrymen go through on the frontlines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780740798825
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date:	05/24/2022
Series:	Doonesbury Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

For many readers, Doonesbury has long been something of a Rorschach test--they see in it what they are predisposed to see. Case in point, those who detect an antimilitary bias in the strip. It may interest--if not confuse--these critics to learn that if GBT has such a bias, the military itself has failed to notice. During the first Gulf War, the Pentagon organized a touring exhibition of the Doonesbury war strips, and during Trudeau's visit to Kuwait, where he met hundreds of soldiers, he was awarded certificates of achievement by the Ready First Brigade and the 4th Battalion 67th Armor, which made him an "honorary Bandit for life." More recently, the DOD, USO, and VA have all worked closely with Trudeau on the strips depicting B.D.'s wounding in Iraq, and Walter Reed Army Medical Center presented him with the Commander's Award for Public Service, the third-highest civilian award given by the Army.