Who Would Still Salute?

In America’s faithless year, a famous cartoonist ran the flag up to see who still would. He got half the answer.

The year the country turned two hundred, a cartoonist made a strange little book about the flag.

His name was Milton Caniff. In his day he was as famous as anyone alive with a pen, the man who drew Steve Canyon and Terry and the Pirates, in a thousand papers every morning. He could have drawn a parade for the bicentennial. He drew a book instead, one tha…