{"id":1172,"date":"1985-05-12T18:01:00","date_gmt":"1985-05-12T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:02:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:02:59","slug":"1985-05-12-ww-ii-vets-by-charles-phillip-bissell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/1985\/05\/12\/1985-05-12-ww-ii-vets-by-charles-phillip-bissell\/","title":{"rendered":"1985.05.12 \u201cWW II Vets\u201d by Charles Phillip Bissell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1985.05.12 \u201cWW II Vets\u201d
\nby Charles Phillip Bissell (1926 -)
\n11 x 17.5, ink and wash on board
\nCoppola Collection<\/p>\n

In 1960, Boston Globe cartoonist Phil Bissell, working for $25 a day, was handed an assignment that would change his life\u2014and the lives of fans of the brand-new AFL football team coming to Boston. \u201cSports editor Jerry Nason came to me and he said, \u2018They\u2019ve decided to call the team the Boston Patriots. You better have a cartoon ready for tomorrow\u2019s edition.\u2019\u201d Bissel\u2019s \u201cPat Patriot\u201d cartoon was the Patriot\u2019s logo from 1961-1992.<\/p>\n

On May 8, 1945, VE Day, about a week after Hitler\u2019s suicide and the fall of Berlin, the Allies of World War II accepted Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces.<\/p>\n

It is hard to tell what else was in the word balloon, but the intention is clear: can it really be 40 years ago\u2026?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1985.05.12 \u201cWW II Vets\u201d by Charles Phillip Bissell (1926 -) 11 x 17.5, ink and wash on board Coppola Collection In 1960, Boston Globe cartoonist Phil Bissell, working for $25 a day, was handed an assignment that would change his … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}