. >> matt dillen, john wayne, you don't worry about it.ut i don't know how realistic that is. >> and that's probably why they were popular, because we wanted our folk heros, our tv heros to be reflective of our own image of ourselves as a country. >> i was a boy during the second world war. and pretty much what you saw in the movies was the heroics. it simply would not be done to show an image of -- of the day-to-day suffering that goes into it. >> to say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic if unsatisfactory conclusion. ♪ >> "m.a.s.h." is to me still a phenomenon that in the middle of the vietnam war, that we would watch a show about another war set in asia, as brutal as vietnam was. >> i was watching "m.a.s.h." at 5 or 6 years old. it was all about war and people dying and i wonder how i interpreted it. >> i'll take him first. put him ahead of him. >> hawkeye didn't want people to die and he tried to keep them from dying. >> step on it! >> how dare you contradict me! >> hey, hold it. he's a commie. north korean. haas h