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Patriot's Day Lexington, Massachusetts April 17, 2000 This picture of Bugs Bunny as a Minuteman is a gift to the Lexington Lions Club's, U.S.S. Lexington Committee, from the U. S.S. Lexington CV -2 Minutemen Club, in appreciation of their dedication to preserving the memory of the five United States Naval ships christened U.S.S. Lexington, and the men who served aboard those five Lexingtons. About the Picture In 1982 Donald E. Foster created this Bugs Bunny Minuteman for the U.S.S. Lexington CV -2 Minutemen Club of which he is a life member. This picture is an enlargement of that creation. The U.S.S. Lexington CV -2 was known as the minutemen ship. Donald E. Foster Donald E. Foster was born November 10, 1917, in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1936, in Long Beach, California, and served aboard the U.S.S. Lexington CV -2 from 1936 to 1942. In 1945, at the end of World War II, Don was discharged from the Navy, and as he wanted to be a cartoon animator he enrolled [benefit of the GI Bill] in Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, a training ground for the Walt Disney animators. [This is now the California Institute of the Arts] After completing four years at Chouinard Art Institute Don applied for and was hired by the Warner Brothers Studios as a graphic artist working with Chuck Jones, and for the next twelve years he did not have a day off Their feature attractions were Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and Don did publicity sketches and animation. In 1962 Chuck Jones left Warner Brothers Studios to form his own cartoon animation business and Don went with him and there he remained until he retired in 1982. U.S.S. Le n CV -2 Min ,,denC,b v //. "/ ent L , erson Chair an - ■ , ems Committee