Posted on 09/16/2008 5:24:40 AM PDT by decimon
Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today.
Long before the Internet made viral marketing a cinch, one long-nosed little character named Kilroy made his way around the world the old-fashioned way, becoming a legend among the millions of military men and women who served during World War II.
The rudimentary doodle, which featured a balding head peering over a wall along with the tag "Kilroy Was Here," popped up in unexpected places across all of the theaters of war visited by American troops.
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I’ll have to print this article for my kids to read. We spent two weeks in Washington DC this summer over the 4th of July and I met a very nice veteran at the WWII Memorial and asked him where Kilroy was since I had offered ice cream to the first kid to find it. 14 yr old DD found it first. We were at the memorial 2 different days during our trip and each day a different veteran was there, it was an honor to meet and shake both of their hands and thank them for their service to our country.
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I can guarantee that Kilroy is alive and well. I left his mark on a wall in Somalia. The building was being used as a school when I left but Kilroy was still there.
Semper Fidelis ;)
Perhaps we should show up at campaign rallies with “kilroy IS here” signs.
Think of how the opposition must see this: We have this one amazing warrior, who is able to be everywhere, all over the globe... for 60+ years, the guy has been snoopin’ and poopin’ everywhere in the world, leaving his mark.
Enemies have reason to fear us. Kilroy is everywhere. He sees everything you do. The heck with intel satellites and UAV’s - Kilroy is on the job.
;-)
Worst album Styx ever did.
I remember my father, who was a WWII vet, drawing Kilroy for me when I was about 4 years old and telling me the history.
It was one of my favorite childhood doodles.
LOL good one!
How about, “Palin was here.”
In the movie - Kelley's Heroes - at the end after Kelly, Big Joe, Crap-Game, and Odd Ball have cleared out, their CO makes his way to the now empty bank. On the wall is Kilroy, along with an Up Yours logo.
(some kids next to Kilroy display) http://flickr.com/photos/rpkrajewski/144843522/ It looks like it says "This Is The Home Of Kilroy" behind them.
The Shadow was in Okinawa in 1965. It was a figure of an invisible man wearing a hat, coat, and boots. We made a stencil and spray painted it in a lot of strange places. :0)
Kilroy was my Moms cousin..she left me some of his drawings when she died.
The “Kilroy was here” drawing was ubiquitous when I was growing up in the fifties and sixties. It pretty much petered out by the seventies.
Confession time. I’ve done my part to keep the Kilroy mystery alive. On foreign trips, I would pull a drawer from the furniture in a hotel room and write “Kilroy was here” on the bottom side. Bad television and good beer may have had something to do with it. Someday, some foreigner is going to wonder, WTF???
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