This episode was broadcast the day Jack Soo (Sgt. Nick Yemana) died.
Dietrich gives his birthdate: October 23, 1947, and birthplace: St. Mary's Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
In The Radical, Dietrich says he came out against the [Vietnam] War in [19]57 at age 14. He would have been 10 with the birth date he gave.