My father was in a Korean War MASH [View all]

He survived the war and died in 2019. He liked the show MASH, but about the only thing he’d talk about when it was on was how few soldiers were in the TV MASH compared to his real one.

Fast forward to 2017. You remember the little ambulances they had on the show. An Army surplus store in Coeur d’Alene had one on display in front of their building, so one day I went up to their house…”Hey Dad, I need to show you something. “What is it?” “You’ll see.” We get there and he got this real weird look on his face. Started going all through it. The owner came out, and when I told the guy Dad used these in the Korean War they talked for quite a while about it. The owner was a Vietnam vet.

I’m still a little sad…there was an air show at Fairchild AFB that I wanted to take him to so he could see the helicopter the Army uses now as an air ambulance but I wasn’t feeling well that day.