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Thanksgiving in the Army
Rerun Date: Thursday - November 23, 1972 (Airdate Confirmed)

WOR Show
WOR Rerun

(Original WOR Airdate Unknown)

audio

(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Hey, would you like something to start off the Thanksgiving festivities on a real spooky thought. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: GROK Summary - - ]   
  Shepherd does comic mic checks, tells a short news gag about a 10-foot python found in an Innsbruck hotel closet, then launches the main piece: Thanksgiving in the Army in the rainy Ozarks.

He describes months of miserable bivouac�pup tents too low to stand in, trenches that don�t keep water out, moldy fatigues, powdered eggs like library paste, rubber toast, field-kitchen dishwater smell, mail call and Dear John letters, and a soldier who snaps, stands up in his tent, and runs off trailing the shelter half (later headed for a Section 8). Passes are scarce; the nearest town is tiny and overrun. A week before Thanksgiving, Sergeant Kowalski announces a lottery: one-third of the men get a five-day, 800-mile-restricted pass. Shepherd and tentmate Goldberg lose.

On Thanksgiving morning the cook still delivers a feast: fresh eggs any style, smoked bacon, country sausage, real milk, strawberry jam, and proper toast. They eat for hours, crawl back into the wet tents with leftovers, and decide they are glad they didn�t get the pass. Shepherd frames it as the kind of day that only becomes good in retrospect.

News Articles Read by Shep During Show

Shep would often read articles he recently read or were sent in by fans

Time	Image	Description
04:53		10 foot python

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
18:06	that reminds me, this is WOR New York. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
18:10	Lufthansa Airlines
19:09	General Tire
19:54	House of Chan
26:18	General Tire
27:00	WCBS TV New York	Mike Douglas
27:15	Shoetown
28:25	Gramercy Park Clothes
29:19	General Tire

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
05:24	Unknown Music	rhumba jazz Music