The End of MASH
On learning last week that the very last MASH unit - set up in Pakistan - was to be decommissioned by the Army and given to Pakistan, Steve Gorman at Reuters thought to call Alan Alda for his reaction, which was:
"You had a group of people under a tremendous amount of pressure, and it wasn't just the pressure of a difficult job," he said. "Their lives were being threatened, they were trying to save the lives of other people, they couldn't get out, and they couldn't avoid one another's idiosyncrasies."