Not
all of us saw a Bob Hope show during our service time. But
we all knew that he was there and that he cared enough to
keep coming back where ever we were. The opportunity I had
to see his show at Da Nang in December 1970 was superseded
by a chance to see the world's biggest bomb dump in Laos.
I was TDY from Da Nang to Bien Hoa to fly with the Rustics
and I hopped a ride back to Da Nang on the 24th of
December to cook Christmas dinner for my Covey friends and
the nurses. When I got back I heard about the action in
Laos so I aimed my helper, Larry Hull, at rounding up
stuff from my freezer and jumped in the back seat of
someone going west. We flew over a hill side covered with
GIs at the Bob Hope show. The cartoons say it all.
