"I hope so. Really, really hope so. I hope I get the chance."

That the barrier comes down; that he goes home, first to Korea and then to Ottumwa. That the war ends. That another one doesn't immediately rise to take its place.

Then Radar asks the question everybody asks each other on late nights at the 4077th, when they're all especially tired and sick of the bloodshed. "What about you? What're you gonna do when you get home?"