MASH QUOTES

Father Mulcahy’s dream in Dreams really is something else. it so perfectly shows this insecurity in religion, and this helpless feeling of knowing you cant do anything as lives are slipping through the bloody fingers of the doctors around you, the same doctors who put you up on a pedestal, rise you above all others, for the sole reason that you are a man of God. and the show depicts this feeling of inadequacy because Mulcahy feels like he isn’t doing enough, that he can’t do enough, because he can’t save lives like the doctors do, but he is still put above the rest. And one of the best shots of the show, when the crucified Jesus behind him becomes a crucified solider. Jesus sacrificed himself for the sins of humanity, but these soldiers are not sacrificing themselves: the men who sit in plushy offices drafting them to go to war are sacrificing the lives of these young men. a sacrifice not to save the sins of humanity, but to allow the bloody sins of war to continue.

Pretty sure Flagg as a character was created to say "Nationism is fucking stupid, but an unhinged, scary kind of stupid" and I personally think that's a very good, spicy take that we should remember

sometimes a family is just a military camp entirely staffed by idiots and one child they've all adopted