I agree. Steve Martin's comments were for the troops, but Steve's a class act...You got THAT right!
See also, from http://www.house.gov/hobson/uso60.htm:
WEEKLY COLUMN -- February 20, 2001
The USO Celebrates 60 Years of Service
In February 1941, just as the United States suddenly found itself at war after the attack on Pearl Harbor and formulating plans to fight the war, the United Service Organization (USO) was established to provide morale, welfare, and recreation-type services to uniformed military personnel.
The USO followed the troops everywhere they went in World War II to extend a "touch of home" to servicemen and women and help them forget the horrors of combat, if only for a few hours. Cultural icons like Bob Hope, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, the Andrews Sisters, and the brightest stars in wartime Hollywood were enlisted by the USO to accomplish their wartime morale boosting mission.
On the homefront, the USO organized dances, established canteens, community centers and travel support offices and continued providing quality entertainment from cultural landmarks like the Hollywood Canteen and Radio City Music Hall to hand-rigged recreation centers on remote military bases from Maine to Alaska.
After World War II, the USO built upon its previous successes and continued to provide entertainment and support to troops around the world. When new conflicts arose in Korea and Vietnam, the USO again provided top quality entertainers like Judy Garland, Ann-Margaret, and John Wayne.
Operation Desert Storm saw the USO once again follow our troops to set up shows in the desert with the indomitable Bob Hope, along with Steve Martin, Dolly Parton, Jay Leno, and many other popular entertainers...