Rita Martison, singing to mainly soldiers as part of the FTA show.
Self-styled “political vaudeville” troupe F.T.A. (an acronym that alternately stands for “Free The Army” or “Fuck The Army”…class-conscious show-biz pranksters who traveled far and wide performing anti-war sketches and songs in front of sympathetic soldiers at the height of the Vietnam era…(it) functioned as a countercultural antidote to the glib one-liners, T&A, and knee-jerk pro-establishment ideology of Bob Hope and the USO. If Hope represented the powerful establishment, F.T.A. set out to represent the people.
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