Helped our country heal

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2013)

There was so much pain after that war. Most of you commenting weren't even born yet and you don't know the turmoil the media constantly thrust at the American public trying to get ratings and using the networks for political agendas mostly condemning the war. America was more naive and gullible and not as jaded as they are now. In a very tangible way every week and right in front of them on their TV screens was a way to draw the whole country back together in MASH. Whether you were for or against the war it made the soldiers who fought in the war more real and more human. They had faults.. some of them were terrible faults and some of them had wonderful strengths but America had suffered enough and it was time to laugh and get on with life. It wasn't a show that could work before that time or after that time but during that time MASH because a way for people to feel more normal about surviving that part of American history. Laughter is good medicine. There are many many comedic tactics considered genius in their time that audiences no longer respond to now in any way. When you watch these older movies and television series you have to understand the context in which they were created and what their audience needed from that project at that time.