Dear Dad... Three

Hawkeye writes another letter home talking about recent events, including operating on a soldier with an unexploded grenade embedded in him, and a tolerance lesson they taught to a bigoted soldier who does not wish to receive the ’wrong color’ blood. The episode includes the popular myth that Charles Drew, an African American physician who pioneered the use of blood transfusions, died after being refused treatment -- a story which has been dispro... more

Hawkeye writes another letter home talking about recent events, including operating on a soldier with an unexploded grenade embedded in him, and a tolerance lesson they taught to a bigoted soldier who does not wish to receive the ’wrong color’ blood. The episode includes the popular myth that Charles Drew, an African American physician who pioneered the use of blood transfusions, died after being refused treatment -- a story which has been disproved. One scene in the episode involves Henry showing a home movie of his daughter's birthday party. Kathleen Hughes appears in the home movie as Henry's wife, Lorraine. less