Alan Alda offering perspective on war

[True Dough]

[Skittles]

1. I have loved Alan Alda for decades

[smirkymonkey]

4. So do I.

A true democrat and feminist.

[calimary]

9. Yep. And one of the early vocal ones.

[canuckledragger]

2. As a kid growing up and catching episodes of M*A*S*H...

I didn't quite understand what it was all about at the time...but I understood the emotions the actors put forth, how the events as they unfolded affected the characters.

It's a very powerful show.

[True Dough]

16. I can relate

I remember being a young boy, maybe 6 or 7, and my sister was a little younger. My dad, a serving member of the military at the time, would put MASH on in the evening. My sister and I would whine and complain. We hated that show!

As the years went by and I matured, I started giving MASH a chance. Did I ever learn to appreciate what my father loved so many years earlier. At least I was able to tell him that I had developed better taste in television compared to when I was a snot-nosed kid. He got a kick out of that.

[louis-t]

3. Saw him for the first time in Paper Lion.

It was special for us because it was about our football team. Same Time Next Year is also a good film.

[DownriverDem]

5. Great guy

who is a great Dem! MASH was really an anti war show during the VietNam War.

[monkeyman1]

15. thank you ! -------- V.N. VET !!!

[Joinfortmill]

6. Amen

[ET Awful]

7. He said it really well as Hawkeye . . .

[L. Coyote]

8. NEW - Russian commanders have been killed ...

Link to tweet

[Backseat Driver]

13. Perhaps they had a family left to mourn them honestly, but they chose

together chose the same sick mistress, an immoral, psychopathic Russian hussy, Vladimir Putin I. Glory to the free people of Ukraine who ended these officers' misery. How sad and senseless their priority to satisfy the same whore's lust for evil delusional power.

[Backseat Driver]

14. Oops, dupe!

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[BlackSkimmer]

10. Excellent.

I remember that episode.

Thanks for posting it.

[hlthe2b]

11. Alan Alda, you break my heart with your sincerity, intelligence and dedication.

and your viewpoints coincide with mine.

[PortTack]

12. Stated so well...me TOO!

[Caliman73]

17. Respect his political and social stances, and he is a hell of an actor.

He plays a great "funny man" a great deadpan straightman, a superb villain. Just really well rounded as an actor and a human being.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. And I remember watching that finale

my senior year in college sitting with a pile of others in the dorm lounge.

[ms liberty]

19. A favorite actor. MASH is still on regularly in my house.