Sand dunes and scalpels, surfboards and shrapnel, blue sea and red blood, R&R and CPR... Welcome to China Beach. Part EVAC hospital, part USO entertainment center - this outpost of craziness and compassion introduces us to the Vietnam War through the eyes of the women who served there.
In Season 4, China Beach rips up the calendar and breaks apart time, flashing back in the characters' lives to when they first arrived in Vietnam, and then forward, bringing them home post-war with all the difficulties, challenges and, at last, recovery and healing that so many veterans experienced.
In the final episode, the characters gather for a reunion twenty years after the war and then journey to The Wall, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., bringing all that they carry - what they saw and experienced, the scars both real and emotional, and yet the overwhelming feeling of how valuable they felt while they served at China Beach.
As nurse Colleen McMurphy so memorably says, "I couldn't save them all, but I saved some."
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