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Show COL. WILLIAM F. ROOS ovember 11 200 came to me an upperclassman, and he said, "Dumbjohn Roos, let's have Lieutenant Fishfin s fixed opinion. Well, Lieutenant Fishfine didn't have his fixed opinion in the book; this little plebe bible we called it, about this big (demonstrating). Lieutenant Fishfine wasn't in that book. There was nothing about Lieutenant Fishfine. So, I said, "Sir, I do not know." He said, "Well, you find out." Okay. So I scurried around, and in every class there are always several people who went to prep school with somebody in a class ahead, and they'd go and ask them. And they had been asked a couple of times about this Lieutenant Fishfine. So I said, "Hey, Lieutenant Fishfine, what's he known for?" They told me. I said, "Okay, that's great. That's great." So, the very next time we were in the cadet mess hall, we'd no more sat down that he said, "Okay, Dumbjohn Roos, let's have Lieutenant Fishfine's fixed opinion. I said, "Sir, I give it as my fixed opinion that there are more horses asses in the army than there are horses." He said, "Okay, you're right." DAN: (Laughing). That's it, huh. BILL: So, that's Lieutenant Fishfine's fixed opinion. And when I heard that then I knew that there was a certain amount of humor at West Point. But before that I didn't know there was any humor at all at West Point. But there is some humor. And that's why I keep putting that thing up in there. DAN: You've got a picture in there relevant to Lieutenant Fishfine's fixed opinion. I like that. BILL: So, I was just telling you about the way that-we worked up a plan to get all the women and kids out of there. And we would have them each meet in a designated place. The MP's 47 |
