Dear Uncle Abdul 12-3-79 After Hawkeye and BJ asked Klinger which of the two of them is funnier:
Well, I got a commanding officer who dresses me up in his clothes and sits me on a horse named Sophie so he can paint his own picture, there's a priest writing war ditties, and a snooty major who pays me twenty bucks to follow him out in the woods and watch him blow up a pigeon with a landmine, and if that doesn't do it for you I got a head nurse who shoots unarmed luggage. All you two guys do is walk around all day telling jokes -- what's so funny about that??Our Finest Hour 10-9-78 Clete Roberts interview question to Hawkeye:
Clete: How has being a part of all this -- the war -- changed you?
Hawkeye: I'm very impressed now with the terrible fragility of the human body and the, uh, the unbelievable resiliency of the human spirit.
Dear Sigmund 11-9-76 psychiatrist Sidney Friedman writing a letter:
Freud said that there is a link between anger and wit. Anger turned inwards is depression. Anger turned sideways is Hawkeye.
Stars and Stripes 12-17-79 from a dissertation led by Potter on credit for a wounded man's survival:
Potter: I've been thinking about all the people that had a hand in your little Stitch & Sew. And you know what -- there were an awful lot of them, starting with up on the line, the combat Medics and Evac people did one hell of a job even getting Hauser to us alive, and Margaret must have set a camp record getting him prepped.Hawkeye: And don't forget you were the one who saw Hauser in triage and got him right inside.
Potter: And then we bounced suggestions off one another, everyone throwing in their two cents worth -- everybody, like we always do. And how about you, Hawkeye, you took extra patients so these two could double the time on Hauser.
Hawkeye: I was just being indispensable.
Potter: And how about the folks who took care of Hauser in post op, and how about the people down at the Evac Hospital in Seoul, the medics in San Francisco, Walter Reed, how about -' I'm running out of how abouts.
Hawkeye: How about Hauser himself ?
Potter: How about him? damn brave kid.
BJ: I'm getting the impression this was far from an individual accomplishment.
Charles: It would indeed seem that this was a team effort.
Hawkeye: There you see, and all it took was a simple clubbing over the head.
Officer of the Day 9-24-74 Hawkeye refusing the weapon that goes with the assignment:
I will not carry a gun, Frank. When I got thrown into this war I had a clear understanding with the Pentagon: no guns. I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash & carry, carry me back to Old Virginie, I'll even Hari kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!5 O'clock Charlie 9-22-73 Montage of p.a. announcements
Attention. 1 minute to Charlie. The betting book is now closed.And now direct from North Korea, here he is for the 6th hit week, 5 o'clock Charlie, his airplane, and his astigmatism.
And here he is for your wartime pleasure, the one and only five o'clock Charlie!
And that concludes five o'clock Charlie for today, folks. Hope you enjoyed him as much as North Korea enjoyed bringing him to you. Results of the pool will be announced in just a few minutes. Join us tomorrow, same time. Until then have a nice War.
As he flies the blue lady of the skies into the sunset, we say 'aloha, 5:00 o'clock Charlie,' and return to our duties. Let me remind you the hospital is open 24 hours for your dining and dancing pleasure.
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