You were a good man, Father Mulcahy.
You were a 1st Lieutenant and later a Captain, a Catholic priest sent to minister to soldiers of all faiths at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean Conflict of 1950-1953.
Of course, you were real only in the television sense of real. Like Archie Bunker is real. Like Ponch from CHiPs is real.
Yet you were deftly brought to life for 11 seasons of M*A*S*H by actor William Christopher. Christopher died of cancer at age 84 at his home in Pasadena, California, on the final day of December, 2016.
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