Loved him. MASH used to come on at 4:00 every afternoon when my grandparents on my Mom's side used to watch myself and my sister after school. My grandfather wouldn't miss it unless the world was on fire, and then he might have to think about it for a second. I honestly don't remember seeing that one episode of him as the racist general, but there's no doubt that I've seen them all at least 3 times.
Some of the episodes were just funny, a few made my grandfather get that look that meant he was going out in the garage to tinker with something for awhile and didn't need any help. Sometimes he just wandered out to have a cigarette on the porch. When I got older, I'd wander out there too and every once in a very, very long while he'd start talking about Australia, Hawaii, the Phillipines, and some of the islands he said he didn't want to remember. If it weren't for MASH, I wouldn't have half a clue as to what he went through as a member of the Great Generation fighting global tyranny. The only other time he would ever talk about it was with the other old folks, and they always spoke about their war experiences in German. Suppose that's why so many of my extended family ended up in the European theatre, they were all fluent.
The one where they get an entire day's worth of eggs donated to the unit and then it gets knocked over during an air raid, I can remember him saying, "*** damned general Army, most of them eggs are good still!"
RIP Mr. Morgan.
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