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I watched the show and it depicted what happens in war. War, especially when you are a participant in it, is terrible.

I read the posts prior to airing and thought to myself there sure are many alpha dogs out today giving advice. LOL!

Let everyone think for themselves if "Over There" deserves an audience. I think it does.

I still can't watch that kind of stuff. The Doc says it 're-traumatizes' me.

From the collection of comments, I do have to say that everyone in Nam did not smoke pot and do other drugs. As I recall, most of us did drink. I recall the one guy who did neither.

Drugs/pot were very readily available and very cheap. Also, a case of beer was about the same cost as a case of soda. We did have ration cards for cigarettes and booze.

Anyway, anything that protrays the ugliness of war and the human costs, as well as the human triumphs in awful circumstances, gets my vote.

I read the posts prior to airing and thought to myself there sure are many alpha dogs out today giving advice. LOL!

I admit I was one of those preaching against it before actually seeing it. But in my defense, I was responding to the reviews of it by U.S. soldiers who actually served in Iraq.

I said yesterday that "I refuse to watch this crap" but I ended up watching it after all. I watched it with a queasy feeling in my stomach, encouraged and entertained by some scenes, and disappointed and disgusted by others.

Before I watched it, I said I thought it was "propaganda aimed at breaking the hearts, eroding the spirits, and deluding the minds of the people back home about what is really going on 'over there'." After watching it, I think it is an over-dramatized but somewhat formulaic TV show that still might break the hearts, erode the spirits, and delude the minds of the people back home about what it is really like to be a soldier in Iraq.

My final pre-viewing comment was "The truth is, it's probably both much worse and much better over there, and no crappy TV show can capture an ounce of what it is really like."

That is the one statement I can still stand behind, except I might wait a few more episodes before confirming the "crappy" part. I may have been wrong about some things, and parts of it were definitely entertaining and seemed realistic, but it is still just a TV show...

And if I watch it again, I know it will be that with that same queasy feeling in my stomach, just waiting for Bochco to take one of those cheap shots -- at the men and women protecting his freedom to create such a show -- for which Hollywood has become so infamous.