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Title: Tepid humor edited by someone who should know better
Review: This book of humor lacked any of the bite that I would expect from veterans of the military bureaucracy so sharply satirized in "Catch-22." It's as if Osgood chose to reinforce the overblown portrayals of World War II veterans as demigods rather than as regular, vulgar, lusty, angry, scared humans. I've heard enough of Charles Osgood's work on the radio to know that he doesn't usually fear sacred cows, but he treats the vets and the war as such anyway. Hopefully, a future editor will explore a fuller range of humor from the war.
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