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Comedians "stuck in Iraq"

AP article on comedians entertaining soldiers in the desert:

Comedian Derek Richards recalled arriving there in 2004 to discover soldiers dumbfounded that comics were in their midst. The area was so dangerous, they told the comics, that even the reporters covering the war stayed away.

“I went, Oh, sweet Jesus, what did we get ourselves into?'” said Richards, who lives in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Yet another account of the not-so-famous who have always been an important part of the effort to entertain those in uniform.