Bob Hope

Great video, Kyle. I'm a bit too young to have been in Viet Nam, but I grew up watching the Bob Hope troop shows on TV. He was indeed a different breed of celebrity than what we typically see these days.
 
I liked Bob Hope's humor. It was "smart" humor which often required you to think in order to get the joke. I remember one time he was talking about his family and how he was an only child. Then he commented, "I was their only Hope".

I was in Vietnam in 1970 but not in DaNang so I didn't see his show there. And just a comment. I remember midnight of New Year's eve that year. Every GI who had tracers must have fired up in the air. The horizon was lit up all around with tracers. Quite a show. One guy in my area was hit by a falling bullet but not hurt seriously.

Mike
 
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