Would any M.A.S.H. characters likely still be living today? Seeing as the Korean War ended in 1953 everyone would be quite up in age by now. Radar as the youngest would be about 85.
shareI know a few people who were in Korea in the 50's.
Quickly becoming very few, of course.
I'm including those listed at the end of "Pilot" in my list. I'm counting their age as 66 years from 1950 + supposed age at the time.
Ho Jon about 83 or 84.
Lt. Dish, Boone, Radar, Klinger, Igor, some of the younger nurses who'd all be in their late-80s to 90. (Boone was in the Pilot and the movie.)
Possibly Father Mulcahy, Rizzo, Pierce, Trapper and BJ in their early to mid-90s.
There are still veterans alive from WWII. So yes. There is an elderly gentleman at my wife's church who was in the Korean War. He's 92 I think.
shareAssuming the average KW era draftee would have been born 1932-1935 and the average doctor 10 years earlier, I think there's a fair chance for those I listed to still be living, but then you have the real actors dying at younger ages so there's definitely no certainty.
Linville-60 years 7 months
Stevenson-69 years 3 months
Rogers-82 years 8 months
Christopher-84 years 2 months
Hamer-69 years 11 months
(I didn't include Harry Morgan since in "OP time" Potter would be in his 100-teens by now and he's no hobbit!)
The baby left on the front stoop of the Swamp.
The kid Trapper wanted to adopt.
Ron Howard's underage Marine character.
My father died just 3 years ago and he served in World War II. Sure, there are a lot of Korean vets still alive.
Author: "Road from Antioch" and "In the Markets of Tyre"
Jamie Farr was in the military during the Korean War and he is still alive.
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