Article: FABLED USO CELEBRATES ITS 60TH BIRTHDAY.(LOCAL)

Byline: MELISSA WOOD THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

It's no longer the late-night, black-and-white movie USO, with men in snappy uniforms jumping and jiving their jitters away in canteens with the prettiest girls in town, just before shipping out for Normandy, Iwo Jima, Anzio.

It's not a star-studded Bob Hope road show anymore, either, with Hope wisecracking at tongue-tied generals in the jungles of Vietnam, flanked on all sides by babes in go-go boots and bikinis, while half a world away, Americans watched on prime-time TV, scanning the rows of cheering, leering troops for faces they knew.

As the USO celebrates its 60th birthday today, the service ...

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