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*** Or how about his call to his family in "Henry In Love", where he tells his son that he has to the man of the house, just until he gets back from Korea. [[McLeaned|Poor kid...]]
* This troper has to struggle not to lose it during "Heal Thyself", the episode in which a front-line doctor goes completely insane. Just the helpless look he gives Dr. Pierce and that soft, unassuming voice: "[[Out, Damned Spot!|The blood won't come off]]..."
* Henry's speech to Hawkeye in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" always drives it home for me and my tear ducts. This Troper often wonders if it didn't inspire [[Joss Whedon]] when writing "Lie to Me", cited
* Oh God, who could forget the part in the finale when Hawkeye reveals that a Korean woman {{spoiler|''killed her own baby''}} because he was hissing at her to keep it quiet so they wouldn't be caught by nearby enemy soldiers. It was such a wrenching [[Tear Jerker]] moment it caused Hawkeye to [[Heroic BSOD|complely lose it]] and be sent to the crazy house.
* Another Frank moment: when Margaret flies off for her honeymoon, he just stands there and quietly says goodbye. The only moment in which he was afforded any dignity on the show.
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{{quote|'''Hawkeye''': [Hands over a teddy bear] This belonged to Radar; he left it for me. Let it stand for all the soldiers who came over as boys, and left as men.
'''BJ''': [hands over a fishing lure] Here, I fished with this a few times. Hawkeye told me it belonged to Colonel Blake. Let it stand for all the men who never came home. }}
* This troper recently watched "Dear Sis", thinking it was a filler ep to help send her to sleep. [[What an Idiot!|Big mistake.]] The [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] ending (and then the truck with the wounded comes in...) from when Winchester saw his childhood winter hat to when everyone is singing "Dona Nobis Pacem", along with moments earlier in the episode of Margaret barely keeping it together in the scene at the Colonel's office and Mulcahy crying because he feels so guilty at punching the jackass soldier, had her bawling like a baby.
* In Frank's last episode, where they're all getting drunk at the Bachelor Party: "Stop laughing without me!"
* Hawkeye's phone call with his Dad at the end of "Sons and Bowlers". He's saying "I love you. I love you. I'll be home as soon as I can," with this really choked up, happy-tears voice and it breaks this troper every time.
* Hawkeye in "Dr. Pierce And Dr. Hyde". He's exhausted, he's telling chopper pilots not to go up anymore because they always bring mangled kids back down with them and he's so ridiculously vulnerable that you just want to hold him and say it will all be okay.
* This troper nearly always gets misty at Margaret in her early scene with Hawkeye, where she's found out that Donald's run out on her and Hawkeye is pissed because they've changed the point system again. He asks her what she's going to do and she angrily says she'll get a divorce. But then it starts to sink in and she says it a second time while starting to cry. *
** Doubled when Hawkeye immediately drops his rant when she starts crying, decides he's had enough, and charges all the way to the peace talks to try and get them to end the war.
* This troper defies anyone to watch the Christmas episode where Hawkeye and BJ are desperately trying to save a mortally wounded soldier all day Christmas day, then trying to keep him alive long enough so that he won't die on Christmas, and not break down. When the man finally dies about an hour before midnight, and the doctors turn the clock forward so the time of death will be 12:01, December 26, so that for the man's children, Christmas won't have to be the day their daddy died-I'm tearing up just remembering the moment to type it on this page. It's beyond heartbreaking, especially when one thinks of all the men and women who did die on Christmas, whether in Vietnam, Korea, or any other war, and how painful that loss would be for their families. The scene with the doctors and Margaret silently looking at the pictures of the soldier's children and the letter from his wife just rips your heart out and stomps on it.
* Trapper, at the end of the "Kim" episode.
* The ending to the episode "Yessir, That's Our Baby". A Korean-American infant girl is abandoned at the camp. The unit quickly adores her but learns as well that because she is of mixed race there is nothing but a grim future ahead of her in Korea. So they attempt to find a new safe placement for the child in the US but for all their effort everything falls through and they must leave the baby at a monastery, a place that will give her a safe but narrow future. Hawkeye's final message to the baby is a tear bringer.
{{quote|'''Hawkeye''': You brought a little light to a dark and dismal place. And you’ll never know what you meant to a group of tired people stuck in a very strange time. Be happy.}}
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