The boots have “Hawkeye” written inside, and the dog tags have the names of two real soldiers.
In an interview with Heritage Auctions, Alda talked about how wearing items that actual soldiers wore helped him connect with his character and the legacy of the people who wore the boots and tags before him. “They were scuffed up when we started,” he said in the interview. “And the feel of the leather on my foot, the comfort of being in the shoe, did something. I don’t know. It’s a mysterious thing. But it makes you feel more at home in the character.”
Alda kept the items in a box in the closet for 40 years. After all that time, he realized these cherished items needed to rejoin the world and decided to auction them to support his charity. “They could come to life again and be used to help the Center of Communicating Science,” he told Heritage Auctions. “Because probably somebody would be interested in having a memento of the show.”The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York has become the actor’s passion project in recent years. The nonprofit center works with scientists and doctors worldwide to help improve their communication with the general public.
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