Eyes Right, Foreskins Tight

	In a letter to the editor on Janaury 17, 1995, Professor Emeritus Rowland Berthoff of Washington University, St. Louis, notes of his service in the U.S. Army, 1941-1945:

The military songs were sung, in my experience, by junior officers, officer candidates, etc., a minority at least of whom had been college boys, and not by enlisted men (I was in turn each of these).  In fact, my enlisted bunkies [in Panama] were genuinely shocked by the standard limericks, though they, of course, used the same words constantly as punctuation.  After the war, in a reserve unit, I picked up other songs... learned by fellow officers who had been stationed in England during the war.

And we did sing "The Caissons Are Rolling Along" (And the Coast Artillery's "Old King Cole"), which are genuine army folklore unlike the civilian-composed "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" or "American Patrol" or "Rodger Young"...