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Originally Posted by Art
Ya gotta love Bob Hope! He and Bing were a funny pair .... On The Road To > > >!!
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I actually met him in person, in 1968, on an elevator in Camp Kui army hospital in Okinawa. I had been Med-Evac'd out of DaNang in November and was fairly ambulatory while waiting for further surgery. In December I was asked to wheel another patient to Xray. After I delivered him I went to the elevator with the wheel chair and when I pushed the button to call it I sat down in the chair to wait for the car. When the door opened, there stood General Westmoreland and Bob Hope who had stopped by "the rock" on his way to Vietnam. Caught, I had no choice but to wheel myself onto the elevator. The General leaned over and said to me, "This is Bob Hope." I replied "I know who he is. Who are you?" Then I saw all his fruit salad and his name tag. I thought "Crap. I'm a dead man." The elevator opened on my floor and I wheeled myself out and when the door closed I stood up and pushed the chair back to my ward.