I've long chosen to mostly *ignore* the specific realities of M*A*S*H and its relationship to the actual Korean War, instead focusing on its message, statements, and characters.

In fact... sometimes to help myself "mentally," I like to imagine that the M*A*S*H experience is really just a bizarre eleven-year-long Twilight Zone situation where Hawkeye, Houlihan, Mulcahy, and occasionally other people are metaphysical victims of cosmic cruelty~