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USO Christmas Show-Cu Chi, Vietnam 1966
youtube ^ | Jan 28, 2010 | borntowander

Posted on 12/25/2019 12:39:03 PM PST by Textide

Youtube is great for historical clips like this. Here's one from 1966 in Cu Chi, Vietnam with Bob Hope.

Joey Heatherton made an appearance



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1 posted on 12/25/2019 12:39:03 PM PST by Textide
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To: Textide

Here’s the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHYnb5sRK40


2 posted on 12/25/2019 12:39:33 PM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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I spent that Christmas at the Rockpile. Got to listen to Hanoi Hannah. She played better music than Cronauer.


3 posted on 12/25/2019 12:57:36 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Textide

Had a good friend write to me when I was in Korea Oct. ‘69 telling me he was going into Army to fly helicopters in Germany, his recruiter “guaranteed it”. Before my reply not to believe him and that most helicopter crews were being assigned to Nam he was on his way to Nam winding up in Cu Chi. He may have seen this show.


4 posted on 12/25/2019 1:04:34 PM PST by vigilence (Vigilence)
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To: Textide
Bob Hope's comedy was classic and he was a real patriot, entertaining the troops for so many years.

I never got an opportunity to see him when I was in Tay Nihn and Song Be with the 1st Cav, 70-71.

5 posted on 12/25/2019 1:06:30 PM PST by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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To: Textide

Some carry on the tradition ala Gary Sinise.


6 posted on 12/25/2019 1:10:42 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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his recruiter “guaranteed it”

ROTFLMAO!!


7 posted on 12/25/2019 1:11:55 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Say what you will about his politics, but Robin Williams was another one who entertained the troops a lot.


8 posted on 12/25/2019 1:13:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ComputerGuy

I’m spending the next two months in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, visiting every major city from North to South.

Can’t wait to see the places where my friends and relatives fought and several never returned.


9 posted on 12/25/2019 1:14:10 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: ComputerGuy
I had the pleasure of flying Cris Noel to many of our forward fire bases.......and I also have a great story that I cant repeat here...She was a really good sport and had a great sense of humor..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cunPC8szVAI

and BTW....Merry Christmas and Welcome Home Brother....

10 posted on 12/25/2019 1:18:07 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Textide

“I wanna see fur and early morning dew”....


11 posted on 12/25/2019 1:20:55 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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I went back. Climbed hill 881S at Khe Sanh again. I shouldn’t have done that.


12 posted on 12/25/2019 1:25:15 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: M-cubed

Thanks.


13 posted on 12/25/2019 1:25:53 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Textide

I saw both Bob Hope and Joey Heatherton live, although not in Vietnam. Bob Hope was a great patriot and an extremely funny man. As for Joey Heatherton, I was young enough that I don’t think I could focus on a single word she said.


14 posted on 12/25/2019 1:46:29 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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We would take fire every time we got to that dam Rockpile.
That hill you mention at Khe Sahn where all the antennas were
that’s where I was. 298th Signal
You there when that C-130 got hit on the runway?


15 posted on 12/25/2019 1:52:48 PM PST by Harold Shea (VN vet)
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BUNNIES MAN ... PLAYBOY BUNNIES!!!!


16 posted on 12/25/2019 1:57:41 PM PST by elbook
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To: Textide

Dad was there in 1967.

17 posted on 12/25/2019 2:32:32 PM PST by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: ComputerGuy

God Bless You.


18 posted on 12/25/2019 3:48:16 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Textide

I caught part of the ‘67 show in Cu Chi standing on the back of an APC, looking over the fence after coming in off the road.

Nothing like half dressed round eyes.


19 posted on 12/25/2019 5:32:10 PM PST by Little Bill (VN 65 - 68)
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Hundreds of miles of hand dug tunnels in Chu Chi were used by the Viet Cong during the war with thousands of Viet Cong and their sympathizers living in them.

Makes you wonder how many were entertained unknowingly at the USO shows.


20 posted on 12/27/2019 4:40:35 PM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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