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Panel 2: The Comedian’s remark, “I mean, if we’d lost
this war . . . I think it might have driven us a little crazy, y’know? As a country,” is a comment on the reality of
the Vietnam conflict, in
stark contrast to the Vietnam
conflict in Watchmen.
Panel 5: An iconic image from the Vietnam conflict is that last helicopter leaving
Saigon in 1972, but here Richard Nixon is on the first helicopter “in” to Saigon. This lays
the groundwork for Nixon’s ability to get the Constitution changed so that he
can run for more than two terms.
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