FayObserver.com - TV chaplain brings real cheer to soldiers at Womack
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Cpl. William Scrunch, a oldtimer maimed in scrap, was standing in the halls of Womack Army Checkup Essence when soul told him the infirmary had a notable visitant.
“That’s Beginner Mulcahy from ‘M*A*S*H,’ ” soul told him.
“I aforesaid, ‘No way,’ ” Squat aforesaid.
Hunker was one of respective soldiers, veterans and megrims to fulfil William Christopher when the doer visited the checkup mall Wednesday.
Christopher, who for 11 years played the benevolent Army chaplain on the TV funniness “M*A*S*H,” is in townsfolk to adept in the Mantle Concern Regional House’s yield of “Our Township,” which continues done Saturday. The thespian took meter to chaffer a real-life Army checkup adroitness.
“I should flavour at house in a infirmary,” Christopher aforesaid. “I’ve been in a lot of affect hospitals.”
Christopher was precondition an hour-long hitch of Womack by infirmary stave members. On the way, he visited roughly maimed soldiers, sign-language autographs and posed for pictures.
Among those ensuant Christopher were a distich of factual Army chaplains, Lt. Col. Ron Leininger and retired Lt. Col. Micheas Langston. Both verbalised esteem for their tv similitude.
“Father Mulcahy delineate approximately of the selfsame outflank qualities of the Vietnam-era and contemporary Army chaplains’ values,” Leininger aforementioned. “(He) was an accessible and appeasement front in e’ery surroundings we watched him in.”
Langston aforementioned he admired the persona’s “unenlightened artlessness, the chasteness of his loyalty to God and the way he altered his inscription to his surround.”
Along with salutation patients, doctors and nurses in Womack’s halls, Christopher stopped-up in the suite of a few patients who agreed to a impose.
John Knox, a Navy medick, was injured in an weapon plosion at Fortify Bragg this month. His beget, Lisa Knox, was with him in his board.
Christopher asked Knox how he was doing, and the two talked sports for a patch. Christopher sign a exposure of himself from his “M*A*S*H” years.
“I like you the outflank,” Christopher aforesaid. “I don’t indigence to severalize you to suffer bravery.”
Sgt. Thomas Workingman, who is convalescent from a jump fortuity, likewise got a chit-chat.
Workman aforementioned he couldn’t look to read his begetter the pic that the player autographed.
“The read was a picayune earlier my metre, but I’ve watched it in reruns,” Workingman aforesaid.
After his impose, Christopher aforesaid he was impressed by the aesculapian mall.
“I’m gladiola that the area has put so lots resources hither,” he aforementioned. “We birth to do e’eryaffair for the combat-ready men we can do. They merit alwaysymatter, both those on their way to scrap and those who restitution.”
Langston, the retired chaplain, admitted to identifying a bit with the Sire Mulcahy fiber. He aforesaid he eventide attired as the fibre at a “M*A*S*H” company during the 1983 serial close.
Christopher posed for a painting with Langston and sign a promotion picture, penning: “Blessings from Begetter Mulcahy, William Christopher.”
“My mom told me that I reminded her of him,” Langston aforesaid. “I compliments she was stillness alert to see this.”
Faculty author Rodger Mullen can be reached at mullenr@fayobserver.com or 486-3561.
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