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Hawkeye writes another letter to his father describing a typical day at the 4077th. Hawkeye's patient, who has a leg wound, needs plasma and asks Hawkeye to make sure he doesn't get "darkie blood." Radar tells Henry Blake they have a soldier in pre-op with an unexploded grenade in his chest. Henry, Hawkeye, Radar and Hot Lips get it out without an explosion. At the happy hour, Trapper hears about the patient's request for white blood and they decide to teach him a lesson by dabbing tincture of iodine on his skin. Henry Blake shows home movies in his office and his beautiful wife, Lorraine, gets appreciative whistles from his staff. Continuing the letter the following day, Hawkeye describes the activities of the personnel. Father Mulcahy works out with a punching bag. Trapper adds some iodine to the patient, Frank and Hot Lips carry on their romance. The patient asks Klinger about his darkening skin and Klinger tells him he might have been given the wrong blood. Ginger, also in on the conspiracy, congratulates the patient for successfully passing for white. Next Hawkeye describes the monthly staff meetings, which only Frank, Hot Lips and Mulcahy take seriously. Finally, he tells his dad how Trapper informed the patient that all blood is the same. Trapper also tells the racist patient about Dr. Charles Drew, the black doctor who invented plasma. He was in an auto accident but was not admitted to a hospital because it was for whites only. He bled to death. Hawkeye hurriedly ends his letter when Trapper introduces him to a new nurse from a Swedish unit.

Hawkeye Pierce Alan Alda

Trapper John Wayne Rogers

Henry Blake McLean Stevenson

Hot Lips Loretta Swit

Frank Burns Larry Linville

Radar Gary Burghoff

Father Mulcahy William Christopher

Klinger Jamie Farr

Producers Gene Reynolds

Larry Gelbart

Associate Producer Burt Metcalfe

Director Don Weis