- Major Charles Winchester: Pierce, you should be grateful that only distance is separating you. My father and I have been 12,000 miles apart in the same room. The most intimate and personal communication in the Winchester household, took place at the evening meal. Every night, promptly, at 7:15, we would gather at the dinner table. The soup would be served, and my father would begin with "Tell us what you did today, Charles." I would then have until the salad to report the highlights of my day. Even now the sight of lettuce makes me talk faster. I assumed that's how it was in every family. When I see the warmth, the closeness, the fun of your relationship. My father was a good man, and he always wanted the best for me. But, where I have a father, you have a dad.
- Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce: Charles, you never told me anything like this before.
- Major Charles Winchester: Actually, Hawkeye - I've never told you anything before.
- Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce: [while the rest of the gang celebrates beating the Marines in bowling, Hawkeye and Charles share a private toast in celebration of Hawkeye's father's successful surgery]
- Major Charles Winchester: To our fathers.
- Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce: And their sons.
- Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce: What do you mean you can't call Portland from Guam? You're routing me through where?
- Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce: [Perplexed, after a pause] Mars?
- Major Charles Winchester: Military Affairs Radio Station.
- Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce: [after being prematurely transferred off the phone line] Wait! That wasn't an official 'over'!