This Day in History: 1943-08-10
Corp. Stanley B. Appelgate, home on a fifteen-day furlough to visit his parents, was given what the Ramsey Journal described as a “surprise roast” by some of his friends. Corp. Applegate was serving in a military police unit at the Del Valley Army Air Force base in Austin, Texas. The list of guests, mostly young women and some of their parents, did not apparently make elaborate insulting remarks to the guest of honor. Instead, this was a hot dog roast. (Bristow)