Years later, Schulz proudly spoke of his wartime service. Schulz said he had only one opportunity to fire his machine gun but forgot to load it, and that the German soldier he could have fired at willingly surrendered. His unit saw combat only at the very end of the war. He served as a staff sergeant with the 20th Armored Division in Europe during World War II, as a squad leader on a. Īround the same time, Schulz was drafted into the United States Army. Schulz had by all accounts been very close to his mother and her death had a significant effect on him. At the time of her death, he had only recently been made aware that she suffered from cancer. In February 1943, Schulz's mother Dena died after a long illness. United States Army portrait of Sergeant Schulz, c. A five-foot-tall statue of Snoopy was placed in the school's main office 60 years later. One well-known episode in his high school life was the rejection of his drawings by his high school yearbook, which he referred to in Peanuts years later, when he had Lucy ask Charlie Brown to sign a picture he drew of a horse, only to then say it was a prank. He became a shy, timid teenager, perhaps as a result of being the youngest in his class at Central High School. Schulz attended Richards Gordon Elementary School in Saint Paul, where he skipped two half-grades. Paul, Minn." and "Drawn by 'Sparky'" (C.F. In 1937, Schulz drew a picture of Spike and sent it to Ripley's Believe It or Not! his drawing appeared in Robert Ripley's syndicated panel, captioned, "A hunting dog that eats pins, tacks, and razor blades is owned by C. Schulz loved drawing and sometimes drew his family dog, Spike, who ate unusual things, such as pins and tacks. His uncle called him "Sparky" after the horse Spark Plug in Billy DeBeck's comic strip Barney Google, which Schulz enjoyed reading. He was the only child of Carl Schulz and Dena Halverson, and was of German and Norwegian descent. Schulz's high school yearbook photo, 1940Ĭharles Monroe Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922, and grew up in Saint Paul.
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