Another great motion picture from 1970 is the venerable M*A*S*H.
Starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duval and Sally Kellerman. Gary Burghoff went on to star in the long running television spin-off.
By no means an epic motion picture - it's a story about the brutal consequences of combat in the forward aid stations and MASH units close to the action. And coping.
It was one of the first movies to seriously poke fun at army life.
Like I said before - 1970 was an impressionable year.
Several years later one of my girlfriends from back then made a habit of snuggling with me on the couch every Thursday evening to catch the latest episode of the television version of M*A*S*H.
That always made a nice impression.
A number of years ago I learned about Door County's own 'Hawkeye Pierce'. A retired doctor who lived on the Peninsula and had served as a combat surgeon in Korea.
The Frau and I traveled to see a collection of memorabilia at the local library near where he lives – including his GI .45, mementos from the ‘police action’, his carefully written chronicles of life during his time overseas and a bunch of photographs.
Including a picture of a sagging GI tent complete with a stove pipe and one of those crazy road sign posts with the distances to faraway places nailed all over it.
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