Cutout Daddies

This would be freakin' hilarious if it were a joke but unfortunately it's the sad truth and as such it's kind of depressing the hell out of me.

The Flat Daddies ride in cars, sit at the dinner table, visit the dentist,
and even are brought to confession, according to their significant others on the
home front.

``I prop him up in a chair, or sometimes put him on the couch and cover
him up with a blanket," said Kay Judkins of Caribou, whose husband, Jim, is a
minesweeper mechanic in Afghanistan. ``The cat will curl up on the blanket, and
it looks kind of weird. I've tricked several people by that. They think he's
home again."