Wait for it...

Hawkeye is the well known favorite on the TV show M*A*S*H, and a favorite of mine. I would say he is good looking, as may some, who are over the age of 40. I haven't met many people that like TV, including my best friend, who has a blog spot called My Pond which you visit! Or I haven't found any that have actually seen a couple of the seasons.

Apart from my mom, which is the only person I know right now that likes M*A*S*H, I am trying to encourage some other people to start watching it. But the only responses that seem to come out of their mouth's are insults! They say things like "That guys too old," or "What is the theme of this!" If any of you people have noticed it is about the Korean War, and these people aren't old in the episodes!

Yeah, they get older as the years roll on by, but so does everyone else! Why can't they see past all the pointless insults, and see how funny and heartwarming it really is. If just one person saw at least 2 episodes, and in those 2 didn't criticize them, then I thank them from the bottom of my heart! So, I challenge anyone to go watch M*A*S*H, which is on channel 70, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, I told you I knew when it was, and then report back to me your opinion on the subject. But that is only, when you have seen two episodes, and throughout them you didn't criticize or laugh at anything that wasn't relatively funny.
I give you my blessing.

Dear Hawkeye,

Somehow, every time I watch the TV show, I get a new found fondness for each new character, or the actor. I once sent Alan Alda a letter telling him how I felt about the TV show, and that I would like it very much if he would send me a signed autograph picture. Of course he's about 70 now, because the show was filmed years before I was born, but I was really happy about that letter! Once I got a response, I was kind of dissappointed.

When I got the autograph in the mail, I was so happy, and those weeks that had passed so that the letter could get to him, felt like ages then, but at that moment it felt that it had only been a second. But after that once I got it open, all that was there was the autograph. No letter saying how glad he was that he still had fans younger than him, by like 60 years.

Nothing. I was dissapointed but I kept saying that he was busy. But everytime I looked at it, it started to dawn on me that, maybe he didn't even read it. It's been a year now since I got that signed autograph picture, and I don't know where it is now. I have other hobbies instead of constantly being obsessed with M*A*S*H, but I still dearly love it.

And don't get me wrong I am still very much obsessed. Don't tell my mom this, I lost that picture of him about a couple months ago. I'm thinking that I should send him another letter, and this time I am going to be precise, I am going to tell him that I want something that he wrote, and another signed autograph picture. That's my story.

Welcome to the 4077

Korea, 1950. They were a MASH [Mobile Army Surgical Hospital] unit stationed three miles from the front. Incoming helicopters full of wounded brought the horrors of war to them daily and sometimes bullets flew right outside the operating room door. Occasional hilarity and constant hijinks were all that kept them sane.

Loosely based on real-life MASH unit 8055, life at teh 4077 revolved around teh day-today routines of Captain "Hawkeye" Pierce, Captain "Trapper" McIntyre, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake, Major Margaret Houlihan, Major Franklin Burns, and Corporal "Radar" O'Reilly. Through these characters, viewers traveled beyond the long hours and the horrors of the operating room to a place where friendships were forged, laughter was found and drinks were served.

"M*A*S*H was about people under stress, people standing around in other people's blood and guts, hating being there. We had a seriousnes of purpose but we enjoyed the craziness."
- Alan Alda ("Hawkeye" Pierce)


SPECIAL THANKS TO, M*A*S*H SEASON ONE COLLECTOR'S EDITION