‘God Bless Bob Hope’
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- November
- 8
Spending Christmas 1967 in a war zone far from home had one perk: a visit from Bob Hope, Raquel Welch and the other entertainers in that year’s USO Show. My father was one of the lucky soldiers who got to attend the show at Cu Chi and, for a few hours, “forget that there was a war going on.”
He took this photo before the show started. Here’s one of the main attraction, taken by another soldier.
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