Col. Potter's war
Posted at 11:00 AM on December 7, 2011
by Bob Collins
(5 Comments)
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Though it was about Korea, the TV series M*A*S*H did little to hide that it was a show with a message about Vietnam, a war that was raging during the series. It gave anti-war sentiment a popular cultural voice at a time of nasty public demonstrations against the war.
No moment in the highly decorated series was more powerful, perhaps, than this one:
Harry Morgan, the fine actor who played Col. Sherman Potter, died this morning. He was 96.
Comments (5)
Rest in peace.
Harry, we will miss you. Nice choice on the clip too, Bob.
What are the odds I can find The Ox-Bow Incident in a Red Box? Morgan played Art Croft, one of the "all but seven."
A fine actor on a powerful, important television program.
But white phosphorous was invented by the British, and first used in WWI.
It was used in Fallujah by US forces, and by Israel in Gaza - both campaigns where the vast majority of casualties were civilians
( Damn those Chinese!)
Exactly Jim,
they're good at the twist.
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