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Thanksgiving in the Army
Rerun Date: Thursday - November 23, 1972

WOR Show
WOR Rerun

(Original WOR Airdate Unknown)

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

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

Show Description

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  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

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 05:25	George

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Jews Harp

Rating

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 06:34 ]	Army		Army
• [ 30:41 ]	People		Kowalski, Sgt.
• [ 34:21 ]	People		Goldberg
• [ 36:40 ]	People		Zinsmeister, Carl
• [ 36:41 ]	Travel		Zurich and Munich
• [ 36:42 ]	People		Edwards, Roswell T

Airdate History - Original WOR Airdate Unknown

	Date	Title
	November 23, 1972 Recno: 783	Thanksgiving in the Army	WOR Rerun

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975