"a warning singsong"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> the phrase,
>
> "You'll be SORRReeeee!"
>
> which was in wide use in teh early '40s.

Then and later. The phrase was routinely shouted at passing busloads
of military recruits, first, in my experience, by those, already in
the Army and, subsequently, by passers-by on the sidewalk.

[Somehow, till now, I'd been under the impression that this mild
hazing of the newly-sworn-in was a still-living, national custom. I
must have once seen it in a '40's movie or something.]

And that was the fact of the matter.

War is, indeed, hell. And *I* didn't see any parts of combat.

--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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