USO Nostalgia |
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For sixty six years the USO has meant a little bit of home in a faraway place. Where Americans have gone, the USO has gone. A private in the U.S. Army provided a succinct testimonial to the USO when he wrote in 1941: "Golly, it was good to have a bath...We soldiers will be thankful for it the rest of our lives."
It can truly be said that the USO has represented the best in the American people - compassion, magnanimity, selflessness, service - universally admired qualities that the USO has mirrored to the world at large. For the generations of men and women it has served, the USO has meant friendship, respite, familiarity, warmth, and acceptance.
Inherent in the USO's mission is a simple faith that the world can be made a better place. "So long as we love," Robert Louis Stevenson wrote more than a hundred years ago, "we serve; so long as we are loved by others, we are indispensable."
To the USO...thanks for the memories.