Cindy Mason wanted to go to The Bob Hope Christmas Show. 

It was held on Long Binh, but far from the 24th.  A friend and I hitched a ride across post after getting off of night shift.  We didn't know how long it would take us to get there. Then we sat in the hot sun in the bleachers, and dozed.  At about 4 o'clock we watched a bus arrive from the 24th, and patients and staff members were led to nearly front row seats.  The show started a couple of hours later, and it was wonderful, and we could almost see it.  Connie Stevens was wearing a red dress.

Note the baby blue pajama-clad patients in the crowd up near the stage.

Chatting with guys around them, Cindy discovered the guy to her right was from Ohio too, in fact, he went to Baldwin-Wallace College with Cindy's cousin, Betty Wirt.  Cindy will ask her cousin, Betty (Wirt) Wolfe, to identify him.

Contrast this Bob Hope Christmas Show with the one attended by Ken Bowen in 1967.

Photos from the collection 
of Cindy Young
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