How can M.A.S.H be rated anything less than 10/10? The longest running TV show on our shores anyway. But the story remains the same, why do we send our young men out to be killed time after time? Goodbye Henry is as sad as it is a poignant reminder of the casualties of war. Maybe that's why the TV goes on every night at 6:30 PM every night - If the nights episode has been missed a certain painful loneliness ensues, Why? because M.A.S.H has so perfectly described the condition that we call Global conflict. For as long as it has run there still remains the battle between those who need to reign supreme for their religion or beliefs. You can either watch the Horror movie that is the 6:30 news or see it all as it has been portrayed in the past through the eyes of Hawk, BJ or trapper, Henry or Potter,Frank or Charles and Radar or Klinger. I guess there can be no replacement for Margaret (Hot Lips) Hawkeye or Father Mulcahy. This episode is especially painful because the last thing we expect is to hear that Henry has met his demise and the scene when Radar enters surgery to inform the team that Henry's plane was shot down certainly hits a nerve. Our love for these characters and the outstanding parts they play give us reason to laugh and cry although we have all seen each episode many times.
Review of Abyssinia, Henry
