![]() ![]() “What I’m not seeing in this series on China Beach is any recognition that this was the period when the Red Cross really won its colors. They may have had their fantasies, but they always were absolute gentlemen. “The guys worshiped them and would fall all over themselves to be polite, to clean up their language, to get the combat filth off themselves in time and splash on some aftershave. ![]() He despised-as a former Red Cross photographer-the TV show’s recurring theme that GIs looked upon all Red Cross Doughnut Dollies as instant one-night stands. “In real life, as a dedicated VC she would have returned with four grenades under a blanket or called in a mortar attack on the hospital,” said Caccavo. We gave two thumbs down to showing Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts handed out like C-rations and without written orders to a Special Forces team paying homage to a buffalo skull and cast as mute Section 8s in search of signatures to loaded weapons and grenades in a USO facility to the escape of a wounded Viet Cong nurse who was simply allowed to walk out of the hospital. Caccavo didn’t like the portrayal of a fat major general because you don’t get two stars by being dumb and overweight. I wasn’t crazy about a long-haired fighter pilot in the series who apparently doesn’t fly missions. and they would be wondering just how many of them would be going home 365 days later.” Two, the Army guys would have been sitting there stone cold because they knew exactly where they were going. One, you wouldn’t find a stewardess on a contract airline carrying a switchblade. “To me,” said Caccavo, “it’s an insult to the people it attempts to portray, right from the opening when the GIs on the plane are goofing around and hitting on the stewardess. ![]()
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