These three columns attached serve as good examples that illustrate the wide-spread curiosity found in most quarters of the United States as to who was this G.I. who kept writing Kilroy was Here on so many walls, both foreign and domestic, during the past three and a half years of war? It was not simply the returning veterans who felt a need to know, but the folks who had toiled on the home front as well.
The last two articles purport to actually identify the fellow, and the first article, by television wit Cal Tinney (1908 - 1993), assumed a far more poetic approach on the subject and characterized that most famous of graffiti practitioners as a sort of "everyman".
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