Gerald McRaney: Major John D. MacGillis

Quotes 

• Maj. John D. 'Mac' McGillis : Okay, you want to hear about combat, here it is: people die. Kids.

  [doesn't speak for a few seconds] 

  Maj. John D. 'Mac' McGillis : Kids from the corn fields who just wanted to see the world and go to college, and I teach them the best I know how and still some of them don't make it back, and I have to live with that.

• Polly Cooper McGillis : We held down the home front, but we missed you liek crazy.

  [gives him a kiss] 

  Elizabeth Cooper McGillis : Yeah, everytime mom got lonely, she played your message on the answering machine.

  [presses a button on the answering machine] 

  Maj. John D. 'Mac' McGillis : Now hear this: leave your name and number at the tone. That is all.