#lieutenant colonel henry blake

[theoceansbeyond]

May I present our beloved late LTC Henry Blake to you

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[morganaconda]

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[airyairyaucontraire]

Highlights: he was 63 and retired as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army before joining the Air Force as a civilian employee

He met someone online who claimed to be a woman living in Ukraine and she coaxed him into giving her classified information about the Russia-Ukraine war

Sample of their conversations:

#you couldn’t make it up #I just hope nobody died because of Loose Lips Dave here #us military #ukraine #russia #and this wasn't some naive young man! he was 63! he was a lieutenant colonel! #on the other hand Henry Blake was a lieutenant colonel #would this work on Henry Blake? #if he was bored enough maybe

[detafo]

Dammit. Abyssinia, Henry never lets me watch it without crying.

#mashposting #abyssinia henry #mclean stevenson #rip lieutenant colonel henry blake #colonel blake #henry blake

[yatima]

A propos of nothing in particular I wanna talk about Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake from my other favorite TV show, M*A*S*H. Henry was based on a historical person who seems to have been pretty shitty, and in the sitcom he starts out as a terrible leader and kind of a hateful jerk. Over time, though, he demonstrates competence, shows real growth and, thanks to a terrific performance from a gifted actor, becomes a beloved character.

In the final episode of the third season, Henry gets his much-wanted honorable discharge from the Army and is given a hilariously chaotic send-off from his unit in Korea. Just as we think he's going to be safe for the rest of his life in Bloomington, Illinois, Radar comes into the OR and speaks the words that are engraved on my HEART: "Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake's plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors."

My God. People were SO MAD at the showrunners. Henry worked so hard! He went through so much! He deserved an endless retirement full of fishing! He didn't deserve a random awful sudden death! We loved him and how he interacted with all the other characters and we missed him for the rest of the show!

My God if the rest of that show wasn't immeasurably changed and improved. After Henry died for real, everything had stakes. Profound tone-shift from wacky hijinks to still incredibly funny but character-driven and insightful. Frank and Margaret went from flat caricatures to - well, at least in Margaret's case - one of the best and most complex women on TV at the time. (Team Let Frank Be Trans can still win.) The shallow nihilism that the early seasons shared with the novel and the film was replaced by a hard-earned melancholy that set the comedy in high relief. Henry's death underscored one of the most memorable exchanges in the show, that came two entire seasons later:

Hawkeye: War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.

Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?

Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?

Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.

Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

M*A*S*H isn't just a show about war. It didn't just define the modern workplace comedy, it did so by making the point that the modern workplace is where most of us viewers spend our lives trying to reckon with the violent empire in which we are embedded. At its best, M*A*S*H showed us that the resistance lives and endures in pockets of unconditional love and mutual aid.

Henry wasn't being punished for anything, and his death wasn't a statement on the part of the writers that people like him don't deserve to live. The writers loved Henry too. People, unfortunately, die. We are all going to die (cue Sufjan Steven's Fourth of July), some of us old and surrounded by people who love us, and some of us way too young and unfairly and not infrequently as a direct consequence of the aforementioned violent empire. The randomness and cruelty of it is what makes love and resistance so utterly necessary and beautiful.

Rest in peace, you lovable jerk.

#ofmd #our flag means death #con o'neill #ofmd s2 #mash #izzy hands

[little-bunny-in-space]

I like making up hc's of Stardew Valley characters based around their age and time periods.

SDV Harvey's favorite Tv Show to watch while getting his questionable medical license was "Emergency" and his hero was Dr. Kelly Brackett. This explains his dramatization of having a patient's life in his hands and losing them- although his practice is in such a small town with no real immediate dangers.

I think he would've also liked M*A*S*H as there's a lot of discussion about planes and the doctors' saving pilots in the Korean War and saving these amazing pilots lives would be an honor to him. The fact that one of the main characters, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake died in a plane crash started his fear of flying in the first place.

Emergency! (TV Series 1972–1979) - IMDb

M*A*S*H (TV Series 1972–1983) - IMDb

#stardew valley #harvey sdv #sdv harvey #stardew valley harvey #sdc hc #bunnynerds #these are some of my favorite shows from the 70's #i feel like he'd like them a lot :) #mash

[70s80sandbeyond]

McLean Stevenson as Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake on M.A.S.H.

[themagichour]

⚠️⚠️⚠️EXTREME SUCCESSION SEASON 4 SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!⚠️⚠️⚠️

In life, death happens off-screen.

The only other show I know of which went down this route is MASH; Henry Blake, a main character and Lieutenant Colonel in charge of the entire unit, was finally called home at the end of season three. We're given an episode of his comrades and friends joyfully sending him off; a touching goodbye scene at the copter which lifts him from horror and en-route to his family seems to give us a happy closure and season finale.

At the end of the episode, Radar, his closest friend and confidant, walks into the operating room in a daze, having completely forgotten to don a mask. He delivers the news that Henry's plane has been shot down. "There were no survivors."

This was 1975. Thousands of angry letters were sent in. Television was quickly evolving from carefree sitcoms to drama and true art (think of All in the Family). You know WHY all those letters were sent in? Because that episode of MASH did its job. It shocked its audience, put them in disbelief, upset them, caused them a small sense of grief. That's art. That's why the MASH series finale remains the most watched TV finale of all-time.

Death is not violin strings and slow-motion and carefully-written poetry. Sometimes, oftentimes, you're not there. And if you are -- from experience, I can say -- watching someone die is long and uneventful, even if it's quick. Mostly, it makes sense. It's demystifying. I was impressed by that insight that Jesse seems to have -- those on the plane, who were there with Logan throughout it all, who watched him die -- they were the calmest.

Jesse didn't give us that experience. I straight up fucking thought they were doing compressions on a Resusci-Anne at one point. Which makes no sense. Like, why would they fake that? How would that translate over the phone? My brain was just trying to make absurd sense of my disbelief and the excuses it tried to conceive.

I think we mostly-expected Logan to go out. At the same time, we felt it'd be a copout. And if it would happen? It'd happen quite dramatically on the second-to-last episode, or during the finale. And we'd witness it.

Death doesn't do that.

Fucking fantastically devastating.

#succession #succession spoilers #succession season 4 #succession season 4 spoilers #succession s4 #succession s4 spoilers #logan roy #mash #henry blake #jesse armstrong

[bornforastorm]

have to assume i was served this ad bc my phone can tell im always thinking about lieutenant colonel henry blake

#mash #henry blake ilu i miss u

[dumbasserydistilled]

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[theoceansbeyond]

(Presented by Frank Burns)(Uncredited)

#hogan’s heroes #m*a*s*h #mashposting #colonel hogan #robert hogan #lieutenant colonel blake #henry blake #frank burns

[die-letzte-party-henry]

Here's to being in love with Henry Blake.

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[zackcollins]

Finding out that the final scene in "Abyssinia Henry" wasn't even part of the original script makes me wanna say "abyssinia" to myself. Because like. That's just too much for me to process, man.

#ngl it made me cry a little #because holy hell was that a lot to handle #i didnt need to know that #because now ill never stop thibking about it #and ill perpetually be sad #rip me #and rip henry #ill miss him #henry blake #lieutenant colonel henry blake #mash #m*a*s*h #tv: mash #robin talks #robin talks about mash #not sports #tw death #<- just to be safe

[darkmindbrightspirit]

what did they put in Abyssinia, Henry to make me tear up every time

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[dyingroses]

The little soldier boy

Found his way back home

His mother wrapped her arms

Around his corpse

#M*A*S*H #mashedit #M*A*S*Hedit #henry blake #lieutenant colonel henry blake #radar o'reilly #hawkeye pierce #abyssinia henry #sometimes you hear the bullet #leaves from the vine #post

[pinkdogplushie]

Well.

Just watched Abissynia, Henry for the first time.

I'm crying.

#and i can't stop #m*a*s*h #lieutenant colonel henry blake