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There's an episode with a guy who actually gets a section eight, and he's so clearly contrasted with Klinger because the other guy isn't just talking to his socks, he's firing into the minefield. Klinger tells Sidney that he hates the war so much because of the death, that he can't stand being a part of all that killing. If he just wanted to go home then he could do it, but that wouldn't actually help anybody. He's a lot like Hawkeye in that way. Sticking around and making it clear how much they hate it while working every day to save lives is the best way to fight "the war against the war" as Hawkeye calls it.

Hawkeye and Henry: the overworked under paid college dean and depressed class clown start drinking at the same bar.

Hawkeye and Margaret: they hate each other's masks so much that all they can do is rip them off and be themselves.

Hawkeye and Radar: what if your inner child saw all the bullshit you got up to and still loved you anyway?

Hawkeye and Klinger: a pair of caged birds trying to pick the lock.

Hawkeye and Charles: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 / Entrance of the Gladiators Mashup. Beautiful music was made anyway.

Hawkeye and Potter: the soldier that became a doctor and the doctor that became a soldier. The man you never were and the man you'll never be in thirty years meeting somewhere in the middle and shaking hands.

Hawkeye and Frank: American, American't, American-can can you do the can-can?

Hawkeye and Father Mulcahy: God's smile looks something like a punchline.

M*A*S*H S01E09 Henry Please Come Home (1972)