Re: E-85

FMD said - "And Commodare Perry actually is due recognition for your quote that you mentioned earlier."

Not quite. Perry wrote in a dispatch from the US brig Niagra, on the back of an old letter, 10 Sept 1813, "We have met the enemy and they are ours - two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and a sloop."

Walt Kelly wrote, in 1953, "Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blasts and tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us." While this was derived from Commodore Perry's dispatch (and as a tribute), as it appeared in the Pogo Papers, it is changed, and has a different meaning.

Then, in 1970, on a poster for Earth Day, and in the Pogo comic strip for 8 Aug 1970, he wrote, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

Note that the first appearance of the exact quote I posted was on a poster for Earth Day, and thus in the context that I borrowed the quote.