Yes I grew up on MASH too and became cynical. Having worked on audio grabs of women and men that served in WW2 from New Zealand I lost much cynicism for MASH (Film and television) and having those conversations with veterans lost it all.
My English grandfather ‘ran away’ to join his older brother when he was 14 to be in the cavalry in the 1st world war… He pretty much moved his family here to Australia because of PTSD as we now know it after the family lived in England during the 2ndWW.
Have friends that were on the ground in Vietnam and Afghanistan, wars that have no currency in Australians… except for our government.
This clip from MASH bought tears to my eyes because of the trauma that is passed on and remembered.
Yes, the only nod to anything but a white patriarchal representation is the weird Arabic cross dresser Klinger but if you have the conversation with the people on the ground then perhaps folk will get a wider idea of humanity.
