Replying to a message of JOHNJWILSON to BOB KLAHN:

 J> ->  Now, somebody please, tell me again there are no
 J> Christian ->  terrorists.

 J> Do you think a terrorist any terrorist, is a Christian.
 J> Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition...
 J> (I thought that song was strange.(in the early 40s) )
 J> I still think it strange...

1942 specifically.  The song is based on a quote made by a chaplain
aboard one of the ships at Pearl Harbor during that December 7, 1941,
attack.  I believe the first recording of the song was by Sammy Kaye,
but most of the other bands of the era also performed/recorded it.

"The sky pilot said it
you've got to give him credit
for a son-of-a-gun of a gunner
was he ..."

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