It's real nice of him to offer, especially when he doesn't know Radar at all. And besides --
"You know those people who're so great you wanna tell everybody about 'em?" He smiles, very faint and wistful. "That's who Colonel Blake was. He's the very first person I met at the 4077th -- that, uh, that's my unit, MASH 4077. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. He wasn't very good at being in the Army but that's why he was such a good guy, you know? He really liked people. He, um." Radar tries, and fails, not to sniffle. "He was kinda like my dad. Or I guess what my I always thought my dad'd be like if he hadn't died when I was little."
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It's real nice of him to offer, especially when he doesn't know Radar at all. And besides --
"You know those people who're so great you wanna tell everybody about 'em?" He smiles, very faint and wistful. "That's who Colonel Blake was. He's the very first person I met at the 4077th -- that, uh, that's my unit, MASH 4077. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. He wasn't very good at being in the Army but that's why he was such a good guy, you know? He really liked people. He, um." Radar tries, and fails, not to sniffle. "He was kinda like my dad. Or I guess what my I always thought my dad'd be like if he hadn't died when I was little."