In Last Day in Vietnam, a collection of real-life stories set in war-torn Vietnam, Will Eisner included A Purple Heart for George, the very moving tale of a clerk who wants to join the man he loves in a combat unit. He gets drunk every weekend and writes a request for transfer without realizing what he’s doing, but his friends protect him by destroying the letter before it’s read. Unfortunately, they can’t protect him all of the time…
There are so few stories about gay people in wars that I think we must thank Eisner for telling this, even if it doesn’t end happily.
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