For Memorial Day of Weston Emmart, The Original World War II, "Illustrations Are Very Wonderful!"

Weston Emmart was a GI in Patton's Third Army. Far from harrowing, his sketches in the main are unexpectedly light-hearted, focusing on moments of humour, bathos and boredom. Particularly moving are his portrayals of what life was like for a young American suddenly finding himself stationed in unfamiliar British cities such as London and Liverpool.

Emmart survived the war, and went into advertising, becoming one of the original Mad Men in the '60s. He worked for Ogilvy & Mather for 35 years, and died early in 2013, at the age of 90. His grandson Alex tells, "He never stopped creating art, [he was] always working on something up until his passing. He has been such an artistic inspiration to us for many years".