Danny Sr Meets An Old Friend

Kolohe says:

Hey, it’s Skin-nay! This is another one that seems to be ‘era-shifted’ to me. Danny Sr could very well be Briggs own age at the time (36), but ol’ Colonel Malloy seems to be a bit older to be Danny’s contemporary.

I wonder if this is supposed to take place in Briggs’s youth, i.e. he’s represented by one of the kids. taking place in the early mid or1880s would track more with a middle aged man having a military title, especially a Northerner. Gore Vidal in the novel 1876 had his narrator remark that just about every man of ‘standing’ would be called by the rank they had during the Civil War (if they had served). By 1911 all these fellows were pretty long in the tooth (even with higher ranks being distributed to much younger men in those days than the military does today – it was still only about 10 years younger, for the most part)

eta- then again, there was another colonel honorific (in a cartoon clearly meant to be present day) in a comic just posted https://ordinary-times.com/2022/11/15/real-garage-man-at-home/ )Report