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Eight years after last acting in an ep of "Trapper John M. D.", handicapped World War II vet Harold Russell agreed to appear in a two-part episode of "China Beach" which is about Nurse Colleen McMurphy's experience in Vietnam. In this and the previous ep, McMurphy (Dana Delany) returned home to Lawrence, Kansas, to see her dying father. After the funeral, Russell's character shared how he lost his hands while in Leyte, Philippines. Then Colleen goes to San Francisco to visit an old friend named Jan (Kathy Bates) at a veterans hospital where many handicapped discharges are settled. She also meets her hippie roommates, Pam and Cindy. I had previously watched this when it originally aired and when I looked at the ending credits of this one just now, I was pleasantly surprised that Cindy was played by Megan Mullally who later would make a splash as Karen in "Will & Grace"! As with the previous part, this was excellent from beginning to end so on that note, I highly recommend "The World: Part 2" ep of "China Beach". Oh, and there's one more Harold Russell performance to review...