interview--Comedy writer Martha Bolton on Bob Hope & GIs in WWII

"Dear Bob" by Martha Bolton and Linda Hope (Bob's daughter) shows the incredible mutual admiration society that American military forces all over the world had for Bob Hope and he had for them. Hope responded personally to letters from GIs he got all during the war, tens of thousands of them a month. If a GI asked him (while he was performing at a base or ship or camp) to call the GI's family, Hope would do so when he got back to the states. He never said "no" to a request for his USO team to visit any bunch of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, nurses or military hospitals anywhere in the world. It's an amazing and inspiring account from his first female comedy writer and his daughter, who worked through a room full of boxes to choose the letters they reproduce in this new book from the University Press of Mississippi.