1. We sing Hail, Hail the Gang‘s All Here,‘ and soberly think that some of the gang are not here and will never be." _About his duty in Japan shortly after the U.S. attacked Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs÷ Oct. 7, 1'45, from submarine tender USS Euryale off Sasebo, Japan, south of Nagasaki÷ "Since all records and town officials are gone, 80,000 (dead) is just the estimate of other people.

2. We sing Hail, Hail the Gang‘s All Here,‘ and soberly think that some of the gang are not here and will never be.‘‘ –About his duty in Japan shortly after the U.S. attacked Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs÷ Oct. 7, 1'45, from submarine tender USS Euryale off Sasebo, Japan, south of Nagasaki÷ Since all records and town officials are gone, 80,000 (dead) is just the estimate of other people.

3. Unfortunately – for the a.h. column – most of the jokes about the kind of overblown bombast that typifies opening ceremonies have already been done, in the hilarious Hail, Hail Freedonia sequence from the Marx Brothers‘ best film Duck Soup (if anybody tells you A Night at the Opera, they need to be re–educated, possibly by being beaten around the neck with a sock filled with horse manure). Article continues The Italians followed the Freedonian model quite closely, right down to the funny helmet with feathers that ceremonial soldiers always wear – the kepi, I think Barry Davies said it was called, in his hilarious commentary (yeah, right) – and the fact that just when you thought the wretched thing had finally finished, it started all over again.