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103.6 WPTZ.
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All news, radio, traffic,
sports
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and weather together
on the 8s.
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In the district,
there's a pileup
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-on Constitution...
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Yes, hi.
Dr. Landon's office, please.
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-This thing's cheap.
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- This is terrible.
- Uh, hello?
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Hi, it's Tara Huffman and I have
an 8:15 amnio scheduled
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and we are totally stuck
on Constitution.
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-I'm so sorry.
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-Can you hang on a second?
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Hello? Hi, Celia.
I'm on the other line.
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- Wait. Celia?
-Okay, all right.
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-Quickly, quickly.
- Thank you.
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Hey, what's up?
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-What?
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Why?
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I'm gonna call you back.
Just meet me downstairs, okay?
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Peter just fucking quit.
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You owe me a quarter.
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-What happened? Why?
-I-- I don't know.
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I don't know what happened.
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Okay, there's a metro station
two blocks away.
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Why don't you take it?
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You sure?
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-Yeah, yeah.
-I'm sorry.
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-It's okay.
-Thank you.
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All right, buddy.
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-Take care of your mom, okay?
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All right, good luck.
I'll call you later.
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Okay. It's gonna be okay.
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-All right.
-Bye.
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I called as soon as I heard.
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It's your job
to keep my pale ass
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out of the stink, O'Neal.
You're my Kevlar.
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How was I supposed to know
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the secretary was gonna call
a press conference,
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let alone resign today?
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-Did he have a reason?
-The secretary?
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Oh, yes.
He wants to spend
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-more time--
-More time with the family?
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-Jesus. Was Stanton there?
-He brought the donuts.
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Of course he did.
What's my day like?
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Well,
your eleven o'clock is early
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and your lunch scrubbed.
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-What eleven o'clock?
-Master Sergeant Thomas Tulley.
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Never heard of him. Reschedule.
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Missed you at the brief.
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Glad I had my ear
to the rail, Carl,
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or that train
might have run me over.
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Well, if you'd been on time,
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you would have heard it
like the rest of us.
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You must've known something.
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Hey, I was here. You weren't.
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It's on you.
I-- I-- I got you a donut.
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-It's got sprinkles.
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-My wife had an amnio.
-Oh. Oh, right, priorities.
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I don't know how you do it.
Wife, kids, hamster--
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It was a gerbil. Mercifully,
it finally went tits-up.
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Life refines itself
if you're patient.
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It was a shock,
but I'm finally over it.
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You okay? What's--
What's-- What's bothering you?
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I'm a government lawyer
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about to be unemployed.
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Oh, come on. You're a superstar
on the verge of free agency.
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You'll find something.
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In the middle
of an election year?
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Not even Tiger could sink
that putt.
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-What makes you think I can?
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'Cause your political Darwinism
is absolutely instinctual.
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-Thanks.
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Oh, you're welcome.
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You remember
that decorations review
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I gave you in July?
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It's a vague potential memory.
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Uh, Medal of Honor upgrade?
You have a status briefing.
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-When?
-Now.
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-With who?
-Master Sergeant Thomas Tulley.
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Air Force Pararescue, retired.
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-Flew in from Dayton.
-Your eleven o'clock.
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He's the guy's buddy.
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-Whose guy? What guy?
-The Medal of Honor candidate.
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Why didn't he just come himself?
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Because it's posthumous.
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You'd better read that.
Here you go.
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Christ--
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I have been reminding you
since July.
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We're talking about one
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of the bloodiest days
of the war.
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Pits saved lives.
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And he was awarded
the Air Force Cross.
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-What's wrong with that?
-It was downgraded to the Cross.
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We put him up
for the Medal of Honor.
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-That's different.
-Sergeant, I'm gonna tell you
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something
you probably already know.
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Decoration upgrades are rare.
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The criteria for review
is new information.
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Figured the new information part
was your job.
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This was 30 years ago.
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I mean, is there an agenda
you have I should know about?
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Justice delayed
is justice denied.
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That's my damn agenda.
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Sergeant Tulley, the secretary
of the Air Force resigned today.
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In three months,
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everyone in this office
is gonna be gone, including me.
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This will take years.
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We'll follow up
on this next week.
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Secretary Peters?
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Yes.
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Thomas Tulley,
Air Force Pararescue,
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retired.
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Defense Contract Audit Agency
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is looking
for a regional director.
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That wouldn't be
a step backwards.
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Okay, well,
you are now officially
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-on your own.
-Don't be like that.
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Call sheet is on your computer.
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The secretary's looking for you.
And your wife called.
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Wait. Why?
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-Well, she didn't say.
-No, Peters.
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He wants to see you
in his office in five minutes.
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Congratulations on the job,
Carl.
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-No moss grows under your feet.
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Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
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Sit. Sit down.
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A Master Sergeant Thomas Tulley
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doesn't think we're giving
this MOH matter a fair shake.
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-It's a misunderstanding.
-That's what I said.
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-Sir?
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Operation Abilene
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was one of the bloodiest battles
of the entire war.
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- The Vietnam War.
-Thanks.
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An entire company
nearly wiped out
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but for this PJ's efforts.
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Pararescue Jumper.
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Pitsenbarger is a legend
in the PJ community.
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I understand that.
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Well, Carl's putting together
your itinerary.
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You'll collect
combat testimonies, personally,
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and prepare a package
for a full decorations review.
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But we're about to present
the budget to committee.
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Yeah, well, Carl has it covered.
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I've been working
on it all year.
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And now you're working on this.
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The Medal of Honor
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is the highest recognition
of military valor there is.
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Patton said he'd have traded
his command for that ribbon,
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Eisenhower, the White House.
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Now, why do you think
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four-star generals
and presidents
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would say something like that?
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Honestly, I have no idea.
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Well, that's a very good place
to start.
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I'm off the budget
'cause some grunt
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chased Peters into the shitter.
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Are you kidding me?
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He's not a grunt.
He's Air Force.
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And you're off the budget
'cause you embarrassed him.
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-Tulley?
-No, Peters.
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Look...
...I've never done
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a medal review.
I-- I don't have time for this.
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What job did you get anyway?
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I am legislative director
for Madison Holt,
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if it's any of your business.
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-Chairman of Armed Services?
-Is there another?
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Look, what, do I have
to spell this out for you?
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-This is just crazy.
-Take a few days.
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Go collect some war stories.
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Have Celia write up
a summary statement
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requesting more time.
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We look like we give a shit,
this furball rolls over
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to the next poor slob
that takes your job,
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-you're out of it...
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...before Appropriations
even sniffs the budget.
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- That's it?
-Yeah, that's it.
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It's only gonna be a day, honey.
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We're taking fire
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from all corners, over.
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Charlie Six
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gun three is ready.
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Say what rounds...
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246, uh, times 7246...
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- Everybody down!
- Take cover!
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Contact,
Victor Charlie.
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We have wounded
and we are taking fire.
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Pedro inbound,
say, two mikes out.
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Copy that,
Charlie Six
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We are inbound now.
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- Charlie Six.
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They have mortars
and automatic weapons now.
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It's an ambush.
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Hey, Tulley, doesn't look
too good down there.
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They don't know
how to load the litters.
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Holy shit.
It's their medic.
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Okay. Somebody needs
to go down there
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and get 'em straightened out.
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No way. It's hotter than hell
down there, Pits.
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Those people can't wait.
They've lost their medic.
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Let me go down,
speed up the whole deal.
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As soon
as we have their wounded,
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-you're back on this bird.
- Roger that.
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You be goddamn careful.
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Going down.
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Sounds like a suicide mission.
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Suicide is hopeless.
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What Pitsenbarger did was...
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- Was valor.
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It was a hell of a thing to see
from where I was sitting.
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Then why didn't he get the medal
in '66?
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-You must have some opinion.
-If my opinion mattered,
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this would have been done
long ago.
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Do you do something, Sergeant?
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Do you have a job or a hobby,
or is this...
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your full-time thing?
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I'm a palliative nurse.
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I work with terminal patients
and their families
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to clarify end-of-life goals
and...
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symptom management,
psycho-social...
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spiritual support.
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Do you make your own bed?
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What?
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Simple question.
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My wife does it.
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Must suck to be her.
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Is there a point here somewhere?
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We've been down
this road before.
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You're just the FNG.
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Sergeant...
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this little pet project of yours
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has been in a coma
for three decades.
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There's nothing in this for me,
but I'm here anyway.
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So what do you want?
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Sorry to keep you.
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I nap more than I used to.
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Mr. Pitsenbarger, sir.
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Ah, it isn't getting old
that's hard,
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it's keeping awake
long enough to enjoy it.
239
00:16:35,559 --> 00:16:36,996
- Oh, thank you.
-Well...
240
00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:38,301
Thank you.
241
00:16:38,345 --> 00:16:42,175
-So, you're the new one.
-The new one?
242
00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:45,787
If you want the real story
about Abilene,
243
00:16:45,830 --> 00:16:47,789
you'll need to talk
to the mud soldiers.
244
00:16:48,485 --> 00:16:49,921
And they are?
245
00:16:49,965 --> 00:16:52,446
You do work in the
Department of Defense, right?
246
00:16:55,797 --> 00:16:57,842
They're the army guys
on the ground.
247
00:16:58,452 --> 00:17:02,151
Charlie Company, 16th Infantry,
the Big Red One.
248
00:17:03,239 --> 00:17:04,893
Well, as far
as they're concerned, you see,
249
00:17:04,936 --> 00:17:06,634
it wasn't Bill's fight.
250
00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:08,201
Bill was Air Force.
251
00:17:08,984 --> 00:17:11,726
Charlie Company took
80 percent casualties.
252
00:17:11,769 --> 00:17:15,208
That's 34 KIAs in the same day.
253
00:17:15,773 --> 00:17:17,514
Bill was a part of it,
of course,
254
00:17:18,167 --> 00:17:20,082
but he wasn't one of them.
255
00:17:20,735 --> 00:17:21,953
We have to respect that.
256
00:17:22,563 --> 00:17:25,131
-All right.
- Now, Billy Takoda
257
00:17:25,392 --> 00:17:28,177
lives, uh,
over in Sterling County.
258
00:17:28,221 --> 00:17:30,614
That's about an hour's drive
from here.
259
00:17:31,528 --> 00:17:32,921
Over the years the wives
260
00:17:32,964 --> 00:17:34,836
have tracked down most
of the guys.
261
00:17:35,576 --> 00:17:37,056
You might want to start
with them.
262
00:17:37,491 --> 00:17:41,451
And this Billy guy, is he, uh...
263
00:17:41,930 --> 00:17:43,410
Will he talk to me?
Is he all right?
264
00:17:44,889 --> 00:17:46,543
The two of you
should get along fine.
265
00:18:14,093 --> 00:18:15,964
Hello!
266
00:18:17,183 --> 00:18:18,967
What the hell
are you yelling for?
267
00:18:21,230 --> 00:18:22,144
Jesus.
268
00:18:28,455 --> 00:18:31,588
Billy Takoda.
Not an easy guy to find.
269
00:18:32,067 --> 00:18:33,851
Y'all be careful
down there, you hear?
270
00:18:33,895 --> 00:18:35,853
Jeremy, stay out that water.
271
00:18:38,726 --> 00:18:39,640
So what's your story?
272
00:18:41,555 --> 00:18:42,773
Why are you here?
273
00:18:43,165 --> 00:18:46,342
Well, I appreciate
what you've been through.
274
00:18:46,386 --> 00:18:47,778
Uh, I'm here to help.
275
00:18:48,518 --> 00:18:50,390
If you wanted to help,
you'd pick up a weapon
276
00:18:50,433 --> 00:18:52,131
and get some skin
in the game, friend.
277
00:18:52,783 --> 00:18:54,133
You'd acknowledge
you own a piece
278
00:18:54,176 --> 00:18:55,046
of every bomb dropped
279
00:18:56,265 --> 00:18:56,918
and every bullet fired
in every skirmish
280
00:18:56,961 --> 00:18:57,875
since you been born,
281
00:18:59,312 --> 00:19:00,530
that you have blood
on your hands, you understand?
282
00:19:01,401 --> 00:19:02,271
Second chance.
283
00:19:03,011 --> 00:19:05,318
Why are you here?
284
00:19:08,234 --> 00:19:09,235
It's my job.
285
00:19:10,540 --> 00:19:13,021
-I don't have a choice.
-See? That's progress.
286
00:19:13,326 --> 00:19:17,068
Vulnerability and communication.
Honesty builds trust.
287
00:19:17,939 --> 00:19:20,289
That's the only real currency
we got left in this world.
288
00:19:22,248 --> 00:19:23,597
Now you can trust me?
289
00:19:24,902 --> 00:19:25,816
No.
290
00:19:28,254 --> 00:19:30,517
You mind if I, um...
291
00:19:33,694 --> 00:19:36,392
I'm here so I can...
292
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:38,873
hear your side of the story.
293
00:19:43,225 --> 00:19:45,488
I talk, you listen.
294
00:19:53,192 --> 00:19:55,237
Vietnam
wasn't my first square dance.
295
00:19:56,238 --> 00:19:59,894
I was a dog-faced lifer,
a natural war fighter.
296
00:20:01,025 --> 00:20:02,201
I loved it.
297
00:20:03,289 --> 00:20:05,900
Nothing made me feel more alive.
298
00:20:07,902 --> 00:20:10,339
But I'd never seen nothing
like Abilene.
299
00:20:12,428 --> 00:20:13,995
Lost men like that.
300
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,310
Medic!
301
00:20:24,571 --> 00:20:27,051
-Medic! Medic!
302
00:20:32,361 --> 00:20:33,797
Goddammit Kepper, you all right?
303
00:20:35,190 --> 00:20:36,887
Contact, Victor Charlie.
304
00:20:37,323 --> 00:20:38,454
I'm hit.
305
00:20:39,194 --> 00:20:41,283
We have wounded
and we are taking fire.
306
00:20:41,327 --> 00:20:43,242
-Oh, fuck!
307
00:20:44,112 --> 00:20:46,288
They have mortars
and automatic weapons now.
308
00:20:49,204 --> 00:20:50,640
-It's an ambush.
309
00:20:55,036 --> 00:20:58,735
Pitsenbarger,
where did he fit in all this?
310
00:20:59,388 --> 00:21:00,998
Well, I lost my medic.
311
00:21:01,999 --> 00:21:03,305
We had no LZ, so...
312
00:21:04,350 --> 00:21:06,177
they called
in the Air Force helos.
313
00:21:06,221 --> 00:21:08,092
Pedros, Pedros, Charlie Six.
314
00:21:08,136 --> 00:21:10,965
Be advised, we're in a tight one down here.
315
00:21:11,008 --> 00:21:13,359
Multiple casualties.
We need you soonest.
316
00:21:13,402 --> 00:21:14,664
Contact, one o'clock.
317
00:21:16,318 --> 00:21:17,406
Advise when you've
got us in sight. Over.
318
00:21:21,758 --> 00:21:24,413
Copy, Charlie Six.
Pedros has your smoke.
319
00:21:24,457 --> 00:21:28,112
Pits came down,
saved lives, evac'ed wounded,
320
00:21:28,765 --> 00:21:31,464
died fighting alongside men
he never even knew.
321
00:21:33,248 --> 00:21:35,772
Get down, airman!
Get down!
322
00:21:36,164 --> 00:21:39,385
Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Slow it down.
323
00:21:39,733 --> 00:21:42,388
Nothing but your man
into the basket.
324
00:21:42,692 --> 00:21:44,999
Okay, now, you.
325
00:21:46,174 --> 00:21:48,307
Okay? Hold these.
326
00:21:50,657 --> 00:21:53,355
-Nice and easy, now.
-One, two, three.
327
00:21:56,402 --> 00:21:57,925
All right, hang tight,
buddy.
328
00:21:58,273 --> 00:21:59,448
I'm gonna need you
to do something
329
00:21:59,492 --> 00:22:00,449
-for me, all right?
330
00:22:01,842 --> 00:22:03,060
I need you to keep the pressure
on it, all right?
331
00:22:03,104 --> 00:22:04,888
All the way up you keep
that pressure on it.
332
00:22:04,932 --> 00:22:07,500
All right, you're going home.
All right.
333
00:22:08,414 --> 00:22:10,938
Okay. Take her up.
334
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,638
All right, hang tight, bud.
335
00:22:16,073 --> 00:22:17,336
Hold the line.
Hold the line.
336
00:22:17,379 --> 00:22:19,468
-Come on.
-What's the story, Lieutenant?
337
00:22:19,512 --> 00:22:21,383
We've got a 100-meter perimeter.
338
00:22:21,427 --> 00:22:23,167
We're taking fire
from everywhere.
339
00:22:23,429 --> 00:22:26,780
We've got two KIAs and at least
eight wounded that I know of.
340
00:22:27,476 --> 00:22:29,565
All right, I'm gonna need two
of your guys.
341
00:22:29,609 --> 00:22:30,914
It's your show, airman.
342
00:22:32,525 --> 00:22:33,526
Mott!
343
00:22:34,918 --> 00:22:36,790
Tulley says this whole
medal thing was your idea.
344
00:22:37,094 --> 00:22:38,008
Is that true?
345
00:22:38,444 --> 00:22:39,836
I made out the paperwork,
346
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,012
sent it up the Air Force chain,
that's all.
347
00:22:43,623 --> 00:22:45,538
-But he never got the medal.
- Mm.
348
00:22:46,452 --> 00:22:47,888
Not the big daddy, no.
349
00:22:49,019 --> 00:22:49,890
Why not?
350
00:22:52,545 --> 00:22:53,589
It was war.
351
00:22:55,156 --> 00:22:56,679
Pits wasn't the onlys one,
you know.
352
00:22:58,333 --> 00:23:00,466
I must have wrote
over a dozen letters
353
00:23:00,509 --> 00:23:02,511
to parents and girlfriends.
354
00:23:04,034 --> 00:23:06,776
After that, all you can do
is make amends...
355
00:23:08,343 --> 00:23:09,388
and try to forget.
356
00:23:10,954 --> 00:23:11,955
How do you do that?
357
00:23:13,130 --> 00:23:15,785
Like I said,
get some bark in the game.
358
00:23:16,525 --> 00:23:18,397
You went--
You went back to Vietnam?
359
00:23:20,137 --> 00:23:22,052
I didn't understand
the world anymore
360
00:23:22,096 --> 00:23:23,706
and the world sure as hell
didn't understand me,
361
00:23:23,750 --> 00:23:25,404
so where the hell else
was I gonna go?
362
00:23:27,362 --> 00:23:28,929
Well, after I got healed up,
363
00:23:29,756 --> 00:23:31,845
this old high-school buddy
of mine called
364
00:23:31,888 --> 00:23:33,455
and invited me for beers.
365
00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:36,110
So, I met him
at this social club
366
00:23:36,153 --> 00:23:37,416
over in Eddystone.
367
00:23:39,548 --> 00:23:41,985
There was a sign outside
this shithole that said,
368
00:23:42,029 --> 00:23:44,466
"No dogs or baby killers."
369
00:23:45,902 --> 00:23:46,990
I let it slide.
370
00:23:48,296 --> 00:23:49,471
We sitting at the bar
371
00:23:49,515 --> 00:23:51,299
and he's shooting the shit
about girls
372
00:23:51,342 --> 00:23:54,084
and how we used to raise hell
back in the day.
373
00:23:56,391 --> 00:23:58,393
The more he talked,
the more I realized...
374
00:23:59,438 --> 00:24:01,875
there wasn't nothing hitting,
you know?
375
00:24:03,093 --> 00:24:05,574
Then he blurts out, "I hear
you got the Purple Heart.
376
00:24:05,618 --> 00:24:07,097
What happened? You get shot?"
377
00:24:09,404 --> 00:24:10,753
It gets real quiet.
378
00:24:12,538 --> 00:24:15,932
All these drunk assholes
just staring at me.
379
00:24:18,282 --> 00:24:19,762
Alls I can hear is...
380
00:24:20,676 --> 00:24:22,809
screams from the jungle
that day and...
381
00:24:24,898 --> 00:24:26,552
artillery whistle in the air.
382
00:24:27,553 --> 00:24:28,945
And I started to get pissed.
383
00:24:30,686 --> 00:24:34,124
So I pull my shirt up...
384
00:24:35,561 --> 00:24:36,692
...just to shut him up.
385
00:24:37,780 --> 00:24:39,303
He looks kind of awkward
386
00:24:39,347 --> 00:24:41,654
and then he starts chuckling
and says,
387
00:24:42,829 --> 00:24:44,526
"What was you doing,
running away?"
388
00:24:47,790 --> 00:24:49,313
You know what? Maybe I was.
389
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,100
Maybe that's what I've
been doing all this time.
390
00:24:55,711 --> 00:24:56,799
Tell you what, though.
391
00:24:58,584 --> 00:25:00,499
I tore that place down, brother.
392
00:25:01,543 --> 00:25:04,328
I mean, to the splinters.
393
00:25:05,895 --> 00:25:09,420
That floor was blood, teeth,
and peanut shells,
394
00:25:09,986 --> 00:25:11,379
wasn't none of it mine.
395
00:25:13,468 --> 00:25:14,382
Cops came.
396
00:25:15,209 --> 00:25:16,863
They seen the sign outside.
397
00:25:17,777 --> 00:25:19,387
They called me a livery.
398
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,084
They got it.
399
00:25:22,042 --> 00:25:23,304
Sent me on my way.
400
00:25:26,742 --> 00:25:28,701
I knocked around for a couple
of months,
401
00:25:28,744 --> 00:25:30,964
but nothing seemed to click.
402
00:25:31,007 --> 00:25:33,053
You know, nothing stuck,
you know.
403
00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:39,320
I was a refugee
in my own country,
404
00:25:39,363 --> 00:25:41,801
and that hurt way more
than those bullets.
405
00:25:46,762 --> 00:25:47,894
How could I stay?
406
00:25:50,723 --> 00:25:52,594
Does it still hurt, Grandpa?
407
00:25:54,901 --> 00:25:57,251
Only on the inside, baby boy.
408
00:25:58,818 --> 00:25:59,906
Come on, kids, time to eat.
409
00:26:01,081 --> 00:26:03,431
Honey, think this gumbo's
about ready.
410
00:26:04,388 --> 00:26:06,565
I'm gonna need you to get
on the record.
411
00:26:07,435 --> 00:26:09,611
That's about as on the record
as you're gonna get.
412
00:26:41,687 --> 00:26:42,688
Hey.
413
00:26:45,516 --> 00:26:47,040
Donna Burr? Hi.
414
00:26:47,083 --> 00:26:48,955
Hey, man, he doesn't even get up
till eight o'clock.
415
00:26:49,651 --> 00:26:51,479
Oh, uh, I'm sorry.
416
00:26:52,262 --> 00:26:54,003
Scott Huffman, DOD.
417
00:26:57,050 --> 00:26:59,879
-He-- He works nights?
-Jimmy's PTS.
418
00:27:01,054 --> 00:27:02,142
He's OCD.
419
00:27:02,533 --> 00:27:03,883
He suffers hallucinations
420
00:27:03,926 --> 00:27:06,233
and about
50 other war-related effects.
421
00:27:06,929 --> 00:27:08,322
He sleeps during the day
422
00:27:08,365 --> 00:27:10,498
because the night
just plain terrifies him.
423
00:27:12,543 --> 00:27:15,329
Do you even know
any Vietnam vets?
424
00:27:15,372 --> 00:27:18,245
No.
It's a new experience for me.
425
00:27:21,378 --> 00:27:22,553
How did you two meet?
426
00:27:23,946 --> 00:27:25,644
You mean, what do I see
in a Section 8 like Jimmy?
427
00:27:25,948 --> 00:27:28,647
No, not at all, ma'am.
I'm-- I'm just...
428
00:27:28,951 --> 00:27:30,083
I was his nurse...
429
00:27:31,171 --> 00:27:32,215
at the VA.
430
00:27:34,130 --> 00:27:35,479
You can learn a lot
about these guys
431
00:27:35,523 --> 00:27:36,698
hanging with them.
432
00:27:36,742 --> 00:27:38,482
What they did, what it cost.
433
00:27:38,918 --> 00:27:40,920
And every day he finds
the courage
434
00:27:40,963 --> 00:27:42,617
not to stick a gun in his mouth.
435
00:27:43,749 --> 00:27:46,012
So I think he deserves
a little compassion,
436
00:27:46,534 --> 00:27:49,058
and, believe me,
I get a lot more than I give.
437
00:27:49,493 --> 00:27:51,844
So if he wants to sleep
during the day...
438
00:27:52,801 --> 00:27:54,020
that's okay with me.
439
00:27:55,108 --> 00:27:57,458
So I saw Frank Pitsenbarger,
440
00:27:58,546 --> 00:28:01,157
and, uh, he told me
you have a contact list
441
00:28:01,505 --> 00:28:03,551
for all the Charlie Company guys
that you've put together.
442
00:28:03,812 --> 00:28:05,335
So that's what you want?
443
00:28:05,379 --> 00:28:07,860
Well... no, I...
444
00:28:08,991 --> 00:28:10,776
I'd love to talk
to your husband, too.
445
00:28:11,907 --> 00:28:13,779
I hope you're sincere
about this,
446
00:28:14,257 --> 00:28:16,564
'cause Jimmy is tougher
than a two-dollar steak
447
00:28:16,912 --> 00:28:20,220
and he can smell a rat
a mile upwind.
448
00:28:20,263 --> 00:28:21,830
Well, I don't have
a position here
449
00:28:21,874 --> 00:28:23,266
or an opinion. I'm...
450
00:28:30,578 --> 00:28:32,058
-Here's your list.
451
00:28:32,667 --> 00:28:33,668
Thank you.
452
00:28:35,017 --> 00:28:36,062
You wanna talk to Jimmy,
you're gonna have to wait.
453
00:28:36,366 --> 00:28:37,672
I'm not making any promises.
454
00:28:38,020 --> 00:28:39,587
-Thank you.
455
00:28:55,777 --> 00:28:56,909
-Hey.
456
00:28:57,648 --> 00:28:58,693
Sleeping on post
457
00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:00,260
would get you fragged
in my unit.
458
00:29:01,087 --> 00:29:02,653
Know what I'm saying, sir?
459
00:29:05,308 --> 00:29:08,268
People round here think
I'm a goddamn vampire.
460
00:29:08,311 --> 00:29:09,399
Maybe they're right too,
461
00:29:10,705 --> 00:29:13,229
'cause I ain't slept in the dark
for 32 years.
462
00:29:13,621 --> 00:29:14,840
You know what I'm saying, sir?
463
00:29:16,276 --> 00:29:17,494
You know what that is?
464
00:29:19,453 --> 00:29:20,497
Yes.
465
00:29:22,238 --> 00:29:24,980
-No. No, I-- I don't.
- Yeah.
466
00:29:25,807 --> 00:29:28,984
Big Red One.
First Infantry Division.
467
00:29:29,332 --> 00:29:31,987
Baddest goddamn GIs ever laced
a boot.
468
00:29:32,858 --> 00:29:33,815
Is that loaded?
469
00:29:38,298 --> 00:29:40,517
You know what you call
a gun that ain't loaded?
470
00:29:40,866 --> 00:29:42,781
A fucking stick, sir.
471
00:29:43,956 --> 00:29:46,349
You know what, Jimmy?
Uh, ca-- Can I...
472
00:29:47,176 --> 00:29:48,264
Can I call you Jimmy?
473
00:29:50,223 --> 00:29:51,746
I'm a civilian, so...
474
00:29:52,921 --> 00:29:55,532
-you don't have to call me sir.
-The only reason I'm talking
475
00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:58,709
and not shooting
is 'cause of Tulley.
476
00:29:59,536 --> 00:30:01,843
He said this is all about Pits
getting the medal.
477
00:30:01,887 --> 00:30:04,672
-Ain't that right?
-Right. Absolutely.
478
00:30:04,715 --> 00:30:06,805
'Cause I don't give a shit
about you.
479
00:30:07,066 --> 00:30:08,807
I don't give a shit
about anything.
480
00:30:09,111 --> 00:30:11,200
I just wanna be
left goddamn alone.
481
00:30:11,244 --> 00:30:12,811
You understand what I'm saying?
482
00:30:12,854 --> 00:30:15,030
I mean, I've been fucked over
and fucked around.
483
00:30:15,335 --> 00:30:17,772
Nobody knows what went down
with me over there.
484
00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:19,078
Nobody knows.
485
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,082
You understand
what I'm saying, sir?
486
00:30:25,736 --> 00:30:26,825
Listen, man, I--
487
00:30:27,042 --> 00:30:28,522
I didn't come here
to get shot at,
488
00:30:29,044 --> 00:30:31,351
or to rattle your cage.
I'm just...
489
00:30:32,395 --> 00:30:33,832
I'm just here
because Tulley said
490
00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:36,835
your statement was important,
as did Mr. Pitsenbarger.
491
00:30:39,663 --> 00:30:42,231
I was the oldest FNG
they'd ever seen.
492
00:30:43,580 --> 00:30:46,105
Germany, Guam...
493
00:30:47,671 --> 00:30:49,282
goddamn Okinawa.
494
00:30:50,979 --> 00:30:53,939
Ten years and I never
squeezed off one round.
495
00:30:55,462 --> 00:30:57,029
Understand what I'm saying, sir?
496
00:30:57,551 --> 00:30:59,335
FNG? What is-- What is that?
497
00:31:00,032 --> 00:31:01,250
Fucking New Guy.
498
00:31:02,643 --> 00:31:04,427
Lower than tits on a snake.
499
00:31:05,298 --> 00:31:07,430
FNGs got people killed.
500
00:31:08,170 --> 00:31:09,868
All them years waiting.
501
00:31:10,694 --> 00:31:13,959
Come Easter of '66,
I'm in goddamn Vietnam.
502
00:31:14,481 --> 00:31:16,309
I mean, I signed up
for this shit.
503
00:31:17,310 --> 00:31:19,703
Thirty-three years old
and I was gung-ho
504
00:31:19,747 --> 00:31:21,270
and ready to kill something.
505
00:31:21,618 --> 00:31:23,882
Hey, Ray, you're short, right?
506
00:31:24,795 --> 00:31:26,841
Thirty-two days
and I'll be swimming in Schlitz
507
00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:28,147
unless you get me killed.
508
00:31:29,539 --> 00:31:31,628
How long did it take you
to grease your first dink?
509
00:31:31,672 --> 00:31:33,892
-Understand what I'm saying?
-Get off my back.
510
00:31:34,283 --> 00:31:35,415
What's your problem, man?
511
00:31:35,937 --> 00:31:37,547
You trying
to get each other killed? Hmm?
512
00:31:38,418 --> 00:31:39,854
Man, get the hell away from him.
513
00:31:41,769 --> 00:31:42,901
Now, you know better, Ray.
514
00:31:43,771 --> 00:31:44,903
Keep your eyes open, man.
515
00:32:07,273 --> 00:32:09,840
- Go, go, go!
- Charlie! Get down!
516
00:32:11,451 --> 00:32:14,193
- Get down, get down!
517
00:32:23,028 --> 00:32:24,290
-What we got?
518
00:32:24,333 --> 00:32:26,945
There was three of them.
I-- I got one.
519
00:32:27,206 --> 00:32:29,251
I got one.
520
00:32:37,956 --> 00:32:39,392
- Holy shit.
521
00:32:41,350 --> 00:32:42,873
Nice shot.
522
00:32:43,222 --> 00:32:44,658
Charlie Six, Charlie Three.
523
00:32:44,701 --> 00:32:45,746
Jesus Christ.
524
00:32:47,835 --> 00:32:48,749
Charlie Six.
525
00:32:50,533 --> 00:32:51,360
Lieutenant, what
the hell is going on up there?
526
00:32:51,404 --> 00:32:52,709
FNG bust his cherry is all.
527
00:32:53,058 --> 00:32:54,450
Copy that.
Anything else?
528
00:32:55,234 --> 00:32:56,931
-Negative.
- Roger that.
529
00:32:57,149 --> 00:32:58,193
Charlie Three out.
530
00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:02,241
Kep, check him for intel.
531
00:33:02,937 --> 00:33:04,721
Then shove a couple
of grenades up under him.
532
00:33:05,635 --> 00:33:07,202
Anybody comes for him,
we'll know.
533
00:33:14,470 --> 00:33:15,428
FNG.
534
00:33:15,863 --> 00:33:17,082
Welcome to 'Nam, Jimmy.
535
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:19,345
Come on, I got you.
536
00:33:22,522 --> 00:33:24,785
I ain't never seen
nobody die before.
537
00:33:26,004 --> 00:33:27,135
That little matter sucked
538
00:33:27,179 --> 00:33:29,007
all the whoop-ass right out
of me.
539
00:33:29,833 --> 00:33:31,357
Understand what I'm saying, sir?
540
00:33:33,272 --> 00:33:37,624
I felt real bad about that
for exactly 12 hours.
541
00:33:39,452 --> 00:33:41,497
And then I didn't feel bad
about nothing.
542
00:33:54,858 --> 00:33:55,946
Thought this was going
to the bottom of the pile.
543
00:33:56,512 --> 00:33:57,774
We are the bottom of the pile.
544
00:33:59,254 --> 00:34:00,995
Some guy named Ray Mott called,
said he was confirming.
545
00:34:01,256 --> 00:34:03,998
Today's adventures
in post-traumatic exorcism.
546
00:34:04,433 --> 00:34:05,826
Hopefully he won't have a gun.
547
00:34:06,435 --> 00:34:08,220
Sit down and walk me
through the requirements
548
00:34:08,263 --> 00:34:10,135
for a congressional
decorations package.
549
00:34:10,657 --> 00:34:13,007
-New eyewitness statements.
-Okay, we're doing that.
550
00:34:13,442 --> 00:34:15,009
DOD report of casualty.
551
00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:17,055
Well, he's definitely dead.
So that's two.
552
00:34:17,098 --> 00:34:18,578
And chain
of command endorsements.
553
00:34:18,621 --> 00:34:20,232
Bingo. Where are they?
554
00:34:20,884 --> 00:34:24,018
Because some guy named Kepper
555
00:34:24,758 --> 00:34:26,890
wrote the after-action report
and passed it up.
556
00:34:27,369 --> 00:34:28,327
It would have
to have been approved
557
00:34:29,632 --> 00:34:31,939
from Bien Hoa, Saigon,
to here at the Pentagon.
558
00:34:31,982 --> 00:34:34,724
-That would have been protocol.
-Right, so where is it?
559
00:34:35,638 --> 00:34:37,510
Well, a lot can get lost
in 32 years.
560
00:34:37,553 --> 00:34:39,207
This is the government
we're talking about.
561
00:34:39,468 --> 00:34:41,731
Well, if I can't find the chain
of command endorsements,
562
00:34:41,775 --> 00:34:44,778
this thing's DOA. I'm out of it.
563
00:34:45,648 --> 00:34:46,823
Why not ask Kepper?
564
00:34:47,259 --> 00:34:49,217
Because he's living
in Nha Trang,
565
00:34:49,261 --> 00:34:51,785
which is in Vietnam,
and that's 11 time zones away.
566
00:34:52,177 --> 00:34:54,875
There is this new invention
called the telephone.
567
00:34:55,267 --> 00:34:57,704
Look, apparently this guy
is some Kurtzian burnout
568
00:34:58,183 --> 00:35:00,446
smoking ganja
under the Bodhi tree.
569
00:35:00,489 --> 00:35:02,056
I'm not going there.
570
00:35:02,317 --> 00:35:04,102
-Is that the budget top sheet?
-Yeah.
571
00:35:06,016 --> 00:35:08,018
All right.
I'll call you from the road.
572
00:35:12,632 --> 00:35:15,200
I come out here,
knock out a box or two,
573
00:35:15,243 --> 00:35:17,115
check my targets,
pick up my brass.
574
00:35:17,854 --> 00:35:19,595
Keeps me civil with the kids.
575
00:35:24,861 --> 00:35:26,298
-Hear you went
576
00:35:26,341 --> 00:35:29,083
-to see Jimmy Burr.
-Yeah.
577
00:35:29,127 --> 00:35:31,172
He kills things
to relieve stress.
578
00:35:31,216 --> 00:35:33,131
Flower box, 75 meters.
579
00:35:36,612 --> 00:35:37,961
You know, he's got a bullet
in his head still.
580
00:35:38,005 --> 00:35:40,268
It didn't kill him,
so they slammed him into VA,
581
00:35:40,312 --> 00:35:42,140
doped him up for about 20 years.
582
00:35:42,183 --> 00:35:43,619
Can't imagine why.
583
00:35:52,672 --> 00:35:54,369
It's a hell of a thing,
you know,
584
00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:58,156
to have somebody die
so you can pop melons and...
585
00:35:59,157 --> 00:36:01,115
shoot rabbits by the light
of the moon.
586
00:36:01,550 --> 00:36:03,683
Weapon's clear, Gene.
587
00:36:04,988 --> 00:36:06,033
Weapon's clear.
588
00:36:10,820 --> 00:36:12,561
Your reputation precedes you.
589
00:36:12,996 --> 00:36:15,651
-Jimmy isn't a fan.
-Yeah, Tulley either.
590
00:36:16,348 --> 00:36:19,264
Well, if you guys want this guy
to get the medal,
591
00:36:19,307 --> 00:36:21,440
I gotta get statements,
testimony.
592
00:36:21,483 --> 00:36:24,530
It was one day, decades ago.
593
00:36:24,573 --> 00:36:27,054
Pitsenbarger came
into that shitstorm on purpose.
594
00:36:27,097 --> 00:36:28,621
I mean, how do you account
for that?
595
00:36:28,882 --> 00:36:32,190
Duty, commitment, mission.
Pick one.
596
00:36:34,017 --> 00:36:35,845
I kept telling him to get out...
597
00:36:36,890 --> 00:36:38,108
but he wouldn't go.
598
00:36:38,805 --> 00:36:40,589
Even his CO ordered him back up.
599
00:36:41,242 --> 00:36:43,070
Their bird
was getting ripped up.
600
00:36:43,810 --> 00:36:45,203
But he waved them off.
601
00:36:46,813 --> 00:36:48,162
Probably saved them too.
602
00:36:49,032 --> 00:36:50,208
Hell, he was Air Force.
603
00:36:50,643 --> 00:36:52,079
He shouldn't even
have been there.
604
00:36:52,471 --> 00:36:54,560
-None of us should have.
-How so?
605
00:36:55,691 --> 00:36:57,606
We'd already been out
two weeks on patrol,
606
00:36:57,650 --> 00:36:59,304
but once we tangled
607
00:36:59,347 --> 00:37:01,741
with those NVA forces,
naturally,
608
00:37:02,263 --> 00:37:03,525
we got the duty.
609
00:37:04,004 --> 00:37:06,615
- Duty?
-Bait, brother.
610
00:37:07,355 --> 00:37:08,356
Live bait.
611
00:37:13,579 --> 00:37:14,754
Everybody down!
612
00:37:16,625 --> 00:37:17,844
They put us there
to make contact.
613
00:37:19,454 --> 00:37:22,936
Alpha and Bravo would flank
and we'd grind 'em into pulp,
614
00:37:23,415 --> 00:37:24,807
take 'em out at whatever cost.
615
00:37:24,851 --> 00:37:27,419
Search and destroy.
Notches on your pistol, baby.
616
00:37:28,158 --> 00:37:30,248
Kill ratios, body counts.
617
00:37:30,987 --> 00:37:32,206
It was total bullshit.
618
00:37:33,163 --> 00:37:35,644
Westmoreland, McNamara, Johnson.
619
00:37:36,428 --> 00:37:38,081
That's how they kept
the money flowing.
620
00:37:38,517 --> 00:37:40,519
Kick an anthill.
Grease a mess of gooks.
621
00:37:41,302 --> 00:37:43,522
Next day the NVA'd be
right back again.
622
00:38:02,802 --> 00:38:04,673
-What's happening?
-More gooks, sir!
623
00:38:04,717 --> 00:38:06,066
-Where?
-Over there, sir!
624
00:38:06,849 --> 00:38:08,677
This place is crawling
with them!
625
00:38:13,813 --> 00:38:14,814
They're in the trees.
626
00:38:15,336 --> 00:38:16,729
-They're in the trees.
627
00:38:20,515 --> 00:38:23,039
Cover me!
628
00:38:28,393 --> 00:38:29,916
We didn't have a fucking chance.
629
00:38:42,755 --> 00:38:44,104
Ah. You're dogging it.
630
00:38:44,409 --> 00:38:45,671
Just so you know,
631
00:38:45,714 --> 00:38:47,237
I can't find the chain
of command endorsements
632
00:38:47,281 --> 00:38:48,326
in the Pitsenbarger file.
633
00:38:49,718 --> 00:38:50,980
-So put it in your report.
-I'm missing something.
634
00:38:51,546 --> 00:38:54,419
- What are you doing?
-What?
635
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,943
This thing was ancient history
before you were born.
636
00:38:58,205 --> 00:38:59,380
Let me let you in on something.
637
00:38:59,685 --> 00:39:01,817
It is an undisputed fact
at the Pentagon
638
00:39:01,861 --> 00:39:04,037
that all the real hardware goes
to the officers.
639
00:39:04,646 --> 00:39:06,866
There's been one enlisted
Medal of Honor
640
00:39:06,909 --> 00:39:08,258
in the history of the Air Force.
641
00:39:08,998 --> 00:39:10,783
So somebody
makes endorsements disappear
642
00:39:10,826 --> 00:39:12,219
because the guy's enlisted?
643
00:39:12,567 --> 00:39:14,352
It's not a can of worms
you wanna open.
644
00:39:15,527 --> 00:39:17,224
-Why not?
-Because confronting
645
00:39:17,267 --> 00:39:20,140
the Air Force decorations board
is not in your best interest.
646
00:39:20,575 --> 00:39:21,663
Oh, shoot.
647
00:39:22,490 --> 00:39:23,709
I'm getting a shower.
648
00:39:23,752 --> 00:39:25,014
- Yeah.
- It doesn't count.
649
00:39:34,023 --> 00:39:35,111
Hey there, hotshot.
650
00:39:36,417 --> 00:39:36,983
Thought you fell off
the planet.
651
00:39:38,201 --> 00:39:39,812
I'm pacing myself.
It's a long way down.
652
00:39:40,203 --> 00:39:41,553
What can I do for you?
653
00:39:42,641 --> 00:39:45,165
You ever hear
of a General John A. Hackmeyer?
654
00:39:45,992 --> 00:39:48,603
He was one
of the army silverbacks
655
00:39:48,647 --> 00:39:50,213
down in Saigon during the war.
656
00:39:50,475 --> 00:39:52,259
He was also
the service secretary
657
00:39:52,302 --> 00:39:54,392
that approved the Medal of Honor
of your division.
658
00:39:55,262 --> 00:39:56,568
Think you could track him down?
659
00:39:56,872 --> 00:39:58,918
He's probably fertilizer by now.
660
00:39:58,961 --> 00:40:02,138
Besides, you're the one
with the DOD security clearance.
661
00:40:03,183 --> 00:40:05,011
Maybe we don't want the DOD
to know.
662
00:40:06,839 --> 00:40:08,101
Can you hold on a second?
663
00:40:16,457 --> 00:40:17,415
We don't?
664
00:40:18,764 --> 00:40:20,113
Chain of command endorsements
665
00:40:20,156 --> 00:40:22,289
are an essential element
for congressional review,
666
00:40:22,942 --> 00:40:24,204
and they're not in the file.
667
00:40:25,379 --> 00:40:27,207
What are you asking me?
668
00:40:27,599 --> 00:40:29,122
I'm asking you if it's possible
669
00:40:29,165 --> 00:40:31,167
that what we're looking
for isn't really lost.
670
00:40:32,125 --> 00:40:33,431
What are you doing?
671
00:40:35,302 --> 00:40:37,173
I'm doing my job. What do you--
672
00:40:37,217 --> 00:40:38,566
What do you mean,
what am I doing?
673
00:40:38,610 --> 00:40:40,568
It's a rare quality these days.
674
00:40:41,526 --> 00:40:43,223
What, did you grow a conscience?
675
00:40:43,266 --> 00:40:46,313
Not at all.
It's a waste of energy.
676
00:40:48,533 --> 00:40:49,925
Well, I'll sniff around.
677
00:40:51,449 --> 00:40:52,319
Okay.
678
00:41:11,294 --> 00:41:12,644
- Daddy?
- How you doing,
679
00:41:12,687 --> 00:41:13,732
mister?
680
00:41:15,516 --> 00:41:16,735
We have company.
681
00:41:19,302 --> 00:41:20,478
Hi.
682
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,437
Long drive from Wilmington
in that school bus.
683
00:41:24,003 --> 00:41:25,352
I don't have a car.
684
00:41:25,395 --> 00:41:27,180
They let me
take her home nights.
685
00:41:30,575 --> 00:41:32,490
-Who wants to build a fort?
-Me.
686
00:41:32,533 --> 00:41:35,188
- Okay.
-Thanks for the coffee.
687
00:41:35,754 --> 00:41:36,755
Pleasure.
688
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,370
You messed with my head, man...
689
00:41:44,850 --> 00:41:46,199
when you came to see me.
690
00:41:48,331 --> 00:41:49,898
Started having dreams again.
691
00:41:52,466 --> 00:41:53,641
Can't sleep.
692
00:41:54,990 --> 00:41:57,253
Probably normal, considering.
693
00:42:02,563 --> 00:42:03,695
Sit down.
694
00:42:07,002 --> 00:42:08,003
I, um...
695
00:42:11,354 --> 00:42:14,270
When I got out of the, uh,
army hospital in Saigon,
696
00:42:14,314 --> 00:42:16,055
I wanted to wear
my dress uniform
697
00:42:16,098 --> 00:42:17,360
for my mother,
even though I knew...
698
00:42:18,797 --> 00:42:20,886
even though they carried me off
the plane. She was...
699
00:42:21,843 --> 00:42:24,280
She was crying when she saw me,
700
00:42:24,585 --> 00:42:27,327
my ribbons and my Purple Heart.
701
00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:30,591
They took me straight to the VA
702
00:42:30,635 --> 00:42:32,506
and I was in there for months
before I got home,
703
00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:34,160
I never saw that uniform again.
704
00:42:36,118 --> 00:42:38,991
She packed everything up
from the war in my duffle,
705
00:42:40,253 --> 00:42:41,689
like it never happened,
you know,
706
00:42:41,733 --> 00:42:43,604
and I guess I didn't care,
707
00:42:43,648 --> 00:42:46,607
'cause it's been sitting
in her attic ever since.
708
00:42:48,696 --> 00:42:51,830
My daughter's a shrink.
709
00:42:54,136 --> 00:42:55,442
She thought maybe...
710
00:42:56,008 --> 00:42:57,183
it'd be good...
711
00:42:59,054 --> 00:43:00,708
uh, for me to unpack it.
712
00:43:03,319 --> 00:43:04,886
Everything was still there.
713
00:43:07,802 --> 00:43:10,326
The smell of war still
on my clothes.
714
00:43:12,502 --> 00:43:13,591
And, um...
715
00:43:30,912 --> 00:43:32,087
Pits gave that to me.
716
00:43:32,958 --> 00:43:34,524
He asked me to take care of it.
717
00:43:35,395 --> 00:43:36,875
He asked me to bring it to her.
718
00:43:41,357 --> 00:43:42,228
The guy saved my life
719
00:43:43,621 --> 00:43:44,447
and there was one small thing
that he asked of me
720
00:43:44,491 --> 00:43:45,971
and I wouldn't do it.
721
00:43:49,757 --> 00:43:50,976
I couldn't do it.
722
00:44:03,597 --> 00:44:05,033
You know what that makes me?
723
00:44:18,003 --> 00:44:19,569
1954.
724
00:44:20,266 --> 00:44:23,138
It snowed all night. Ah,
that was a beautiful Christmas.
725
00:44:23,617 --> 00:44:26,185
I got Bill his Flexible Flyer.
726
00:44:27,316 --> 00:44:29,579
It's-- It's still out there
in the garage.
727
00:44:29,971 --> 00:44:32,104
-You were close?
-Sure.
728
00:44:32,147 --> 00:44:36,456
But, uh, I wa-- I was
on the road in-- In those days.
729
00:44:36,935 --> 00:44:38,632
I missed so much.
730
00:44:40,199 --> 00:44:41,766
- Yeah.
731
00:44:47,510 --> 00:44:48,903
You close to your dad?
732
00:44:49,904 --> 00:44:51,863
Actually, I never met him.
733
00:44:55,431 --> 00:44:57,695
Why--
Why did you let him go?
734
00:44:58,260 --> 00:44:59,653
Why didn't you just stop him?
735
00:45:01,263 --> 00:45:04,658
You can't teach
your children values...
736
00:45:05,833 --> 00:45:09,054
and then just withdraw 'em
because you're afraid
737
00:45:09,097 --> 00:45:10,577
of what you might lose.
738
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,798
It just seemed
like such a high price to pay.
739
00:45:15,190 --> 00:45:16,626
If not my son...
740
00:45:17,845 --> 00:45:18,933
then whose?
741
00:45:19,717 --> 00:45:21,109
My neighbor's?
742
00:45:21,806 --> 00:45:22,937
My sister's?
743
00:45:24,243 --> 00:45:25,244
Yours?
744
00:45:27,072 --> 00:45:28,073
Bill...
745
00:45:29,030 --> 00:45:31,467
he honored all of us by serving,
746
00:45:32,033 --> 00:45:34,035
and that's no small thing.
747
00:45:36,516 --> 00:45:37,735
No disrespect.
748
00:45:38,779 --> 00:45:40,041
None taken.
749
00:45:41,826 --> 00:45:43,349
In 1965,
750
00:45:43,871 --> 00:45:46,831
the first ground troops landed
at Da Nang.
751
00:45:47,527 --> 00:45:49,529
I had the thing on TV
all the time.
752
00:45:50,008 --> 00:45:53,315
A couple of weeks later,
the US embassy was bombed.
753
00:45:55,013 --> 00:45:58,668
Americans his age started dying.
754
00:45:58,712 --> 00:46:00,496
Boys from our own town.
755
00:46:01,541 --> 00:46:02,977
I-- I think it moved him.
756
00:46:03,586 --> 00:46:06,328
He came to me one night,
I knew what he was thinking.
757
00:46:06,372 --> 00:46:08,853
God, it sent
a jolt right through me.
758
00:46:10,202 --> 00:46:11,725
But he went easy on me.
759
00:46:12,334 --> 00:46:15,598
He never asked for permission.
760
00:46:16,730 --> 00:46:18,993
I think he knew
what it would mean later...
761
00:46:20,516 --> 00:46:21,996
if something happened to him.
762
00:46:30,352 --> 00:46:34,792
By the time I woke up,
he'd already gone.
763
00:46:36,619 --> 00:46:38,099
Next time I saw him...
764
00:46:40,493 --> 00:46:42,451
he had a haircut and orders.
765
00:46:44,323 --> 00:46:47,152
I was never so frightened
and I was never so proud.
766
00:46:49,328 --> 00:46:52,940
I can't help it,
but I-- I still miss...
767
00:46:54,550 --> 00:46:57,249
watching him mow
the lawn out there,
768
00:46:58,163 --> 00:47:01,601
the smell of fresh cut grass
on his sneakers.
769
00:47:04,212 --> 00:47:06,824
And how he folded his clothes,
even when they were dirty,
770
00:47:07,912 --> 00:47:09,696
'cause he knew
it pleased his mom.
771
00:47:10,784 --> 00:47:15,528
I miss the way
he tapped his cleats for luck
772
00:47:15,571 --> 00:47:17,008
when he went up to bat...
773
00:47:18,009 --> 00:47:20,185
and the way
he always found me...
774
00:47:22,578 --> 00:47:24,102
when he crossed home plate.
775
00:47:24,145 --> 00:47:27,018
There's a thousand things
like that.
776
00:47:28,541 --> 00:47:32,675
But mostly, I miss
what I didn't get to see him do.
777
00:47:33,502 --> 00:47:34,677
What do you mean?
778
00:47:35,374 --> 00:47:37,811
Well, I never got
to see him marry,
779
00:47:38,551 --> 00:47:40,901
or fall in love with a child
of his own.
780
00:47:42,729 --> 00:47:44,078
Because only then...
781
00:47:46,298 --> 00:47:49,475
could he understand
how much his father loved him.
782
00:47:55,263 --> 00:47:56,830
I-- I have a son.
783
00:47:58,049 --> 00:48:00,312
Then you know
what we're talking about.
784
00:48:03,402 --> 00:48:05,360
Who is, uh, Jenny?
785
00:48:05,665 --> 00:48:08,581
Oh, Jenny Raynor.
786
00:48:08,886 --> 00:48:10,061
So beautiful.
787
00:48:10,757 --> 00:48:13,194
She came to live with us
while Bill was overseas.
788
00:48:13,238 --> 00:48:15,762
You see, Mr. Huffman...
789
00:48:17,851 --> 00:48:19,548
we actually lost...
790
00:48:20,419 --> 00:48:24,075
-two children that day.
- Here are her letters.
791
00:48:24,597 --> 00:48:26,729
She gave them to us
when she got married,
792
00:48:27,426 --> 00:48:29,776
but we could never
bring ourselves to read 'em.
793
00:48:31,734 --> 00:48:33,084
Mr. Pitsenbarger...
794
00:48:33,998 --> 00:48:35,695
I just-- I just wanna be clear.
795
00:48:38,002 --> 00:48:40,395
This process
doesn't take months.
796
00:48:41,005 --> 00:48:42,354
It takes years.
797
00:48:43,877 --> 00:48:45,748
Scott, I have cancer.
798
00:48:46,271 --> 00:48:49,361
I should have been gone already
if you'd believe the doctors.
799
00:48:49,404 --> 00:48:52,190
-But, he's a fighter, my man.
800
00:48:53,626 --> 00:48:54,757
I'm sorry.
801
00:48:54,801 --> 00:48:57,021
Dying isn't harder
than losing a child,
802
00:48:57,064 --> 00:48:57,978
I promise you.
803
00:48:59,284 --> 00:49:00,894
-Do what you can, son.
- Thank you.
804
00:49:23,221 --> 00:49:24,657
He sleeps so soundly.
805
00:49:26,224 --> 00:49:28,052
He has no worries.
806
00:49:29,575 --> 00:49:30,793
Pitsenbarger...
807
00:49:31,969 --> 00:49:33,144
he had everything.
808
00:49:34,014 --> 00:49:35,755
People really cared
about the guy.
809
00:49:37,365 --> 00:49:38,540
And really loved him.
810
00:49:44,329 --> 00:49:45,895
How could he give all that up?
811
00:49:47,027 --> 00:49:48,550
He knew
what he was leaving behind,
812
00:49:48,594 --> 00:49:49,682
and still he...
813
00:49:51,466 --> 00:49:52,815
had such certainty.
814
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:55,601
Of what?
815
00:49:57,168 --> 00:49:58,169
That...
816
00:49:59,953 --> 00:50:01,302
no bullet was gonna...
817
00:50:02,608 --> 00:50:04,958
stop him from being who he was.
818
00:50:07,656 --> 00:50:08,918
I've never felt that certain
819
00:50:08,962 --> 00:50:10,529
about anything
in my entire life.
820
00:50:20,887 --> 00:50:21,888
I have.
821
00:51:11,677 --> 00:51:13,113
Look, we're gonna play possum,
all right?
822
00:51:13,157 --> 00:51:15,333
No matter what,
don't move, don't breathe.
823
00:51:15,376 --> 00:51:17,117
Come on, get on top.
Come on. Hurry up.
824
00:51:20,599 --> 00:51:22,035
We have contact all around us.
825
00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:23,602
VC got
their whole goddamn battalion
826
00:51:23,645 --> 00:51:25,299
-out of bed for this one.
-We're gonna tighten up
827
00:51:25,343 --> 00:51:28,259
-this circle right now.
-Takoda's still out there, sir,
828
00:51:29,086 --> 00:51:30,826
Willy, and Burr, too.
829
00:51:32,654 --> 00:51:34,395
Nobody gets left outside
the perimeter.
830
00:52:13,173 --> 00:52:14,348
Hello?
831
00:52:25,925 --> 00:52:27,622
Whatever it is you want...
832
00:52:29,233 --> 00:52:30,408
it's okay.
833
00:52:46,554 --> 00:52:47,468
Psst.
834
00:52:48,252 --> 00:52:49,427
Anybody alive?
835
00:52:50,036 --> 00:52:51,124
Yeah.
836
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:06,618
- I can't breathe.
- Whoa.
837
00:53:06,661 --> 00:53:08,228
Well, they messed you up good,
Lieutenant.
838
00:53:08,272 --> 00:53:10,012
Get me out of here,
will you?
839
00:53:10,056 --> 00:53:11,405
-Hey. All right.
840
00:53:11,449 --> 00:53:13,102
I need you to help me
with the lieutenant, okay?
841
00:53:13,364 --> 00:53:15,583
-Are you with me? Ssh, ssh.
-You gotta help Willy.
842
00:53:15,627 --> 00:53:17,237
-We can't leave Willy.
-Shh, shh.
843
00:53:17,281 --> 00:53:18,499
Willy's gone, friend, all right?
844
00:53:19,935 --> 00:53:20,980
Now, are you with me?
Look at me. Are you with me?
845
00:53:22,242 --> 00:53:23,939
All right. Come on.
All right, up you get.
846
00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:25,419
Come on, grab a shoulder.
847
00:53:25,463 --> 00:53:27,682
- One, two...
848
00:53:28,727 --> 00:53:29,989
Grab his belt. Let's go.
849
00:53:40,782 --> 00:53:43,568
- This way.
850
00:53:44,873 --> 00:53:46,571
Come on, man, let's go!
Get up!
851
00:53:47,311 --> 00:53:49,661
It's Takoda.
For Christ's sake, don't shoot.
852
00:53:49,704 --> 00:53:52,490
Put him down over there.
Over there. That's it.
853
00:53:52,533 --> 00:53:54,622
-Easy, easy, easy.
854
00:53:55,319 --> 00:53:57,364
Wrap it and pack it, all right?
855
00:54:01,803 --> 00:54:04,719
Right, not too tight.
Just venous pressure.
856
00:54:06,330 --> 00:54:08,593
Okay, that's it. That's it.
857
00:54:09,811 --> 00:54:11,639
-Okay.
858
00:54:11,683 --> 00:54:13,337
-Just a few minutes, all right?
859
00:54:15,730 --> 00:54:17,471
Hey, you're doing great.
860
00:54:18,298 --> 00:54:19,343
You're doing just great.
861
00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:24,826
All right, okay.
862
00:54:25,436 --> 00:54:28,047
One, two, three.
863
00:54:28,961 --> 00:54:30,702
-I need you to hold that,
864
00:54:30,745 --> 00:54:32,225
all right? Don't let that move.
865
00:54:32,660 --> 00:54:35,141
-Okay?
-Why are you here?
866
00:54:36,534 --> 00:54:37,752
Because you're here.
867
00:54:50,548 --> 00:54:51,592
Did he...
868
00:54:52,332 --> 00:54:53,464
say anything?
869
00:54:56,293 --> 00:54:57,903
He never says anything.
870
00:56:11,237 --> 00:56:13,718
Hey.
Somebody somewhere likes you.
871
00:56:13,761 --> 00:56:16,938
-Hey, Carl.
-The FBI is doing due diligence.
872
00:56:16,982 --> 00:56:18,287
You're on the shortlist
873
00:56:18,331 --> 00:56:20,986
for Assistant Secretary
for Legislative Affairs.
874
00:56:22,422 --> 00:56:23,423
What'd you tell 'em?
875
00:56:24,032 --> 00:56:26,078
That you're a lying,
womanizing pimp
876
00:56:26,121 --> 00:56:27,340
and you cheat at hoops.
877
00:56:28,907 --> 00:56:30,517
They assured me those were
all occupational requirements.
878
00:56:32,476 --> 00:56:33,955
What about the MOH?
879
00:56:34,782 --> 00:56:36,305
MOH? I'll reassign it.
880
00:56:36,349 --> 00:56:38,177
I mean, I probably should
have done it in the first place.
881
00:56:38,220 --> 00:56:39,657
Somebody was bound
to pick you up.
882
00:56:43,225 --> 00:56:46,272
I see Senator Holt's peddling
an election-year memoir.
883
00:56:46,838 --> 00:56:48,056
Yeah, you should read it.
884
00:56:48,100 --> 00:56:49,275
You might learn something.
885
00:56:49,318 --> 00:56:51,582
-You write any of it?
-Every other word.
886
00:56:51,625 --> 00:56:53,801
-That's good, Carl.
887
00:56:53,845 --> 00:56:55,716
First time you've told the truth
in four years.
888
00:56:56,413 --> 00:56:57,936
What's the matter with you?
You--
889
00:56:57,979 --> 00:57:00,634
You don't want the best civilian
job in the Pentagon?
890
00:57:00,678 --> 00:57:03,594
I mean, this-- This makes you.
891
00:57:03,637 --> 00:57:05,857
It's 3-D moves from here on out,
892
00:57:06,248 --> 00:57:08,425
not to mention getting you back
to Appropriations.
893
00:57:08,468 --> 00:57:10,165
I need to finish this report.
894
00:57:10,992 --> 00:57:13,517
Are you kidding me? Look at me.
895
00:57:14,518 --> 00:57:17,216
You're a predator, man.
You're a goddamn meat eater.
896
00:57:17,521 --> 00:57:18,783
That single instinct
897
00:57:19,087 --> 00:57:22,351
has taken you very far
in a very short time,
898
00:57:22,395 --> 00:57:24,092
so don't get sentimental
on me now.
899
00:57:24,136 --> 00:57:26,225
So you're gonna finish
the review?
900
00:57:26,268 --> 00:57:27,444
Yeah, absolutely.
901
00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:30,490
I'll send an intern down
to pick it all up.
902
00:57:30,795 --> 00:57:31,796
An intern.
903
00:57:33,319 --> 00:57:35,887
-Well, congratulations, man.
-Yeah.
904
00:57:42,807 --> 00:57:44,939
You'd think I'd be better
at this second time around.
905
00:57:47,159 --> 00:57:49,248
Well, you could read
the instructions.
906
00:57:49,857 --> 00:57:51,076
That would be cheating.
907
00:57:54,427 --> 00:57:57,038
-Stanton was looking for you.
-Well, he found me.
908
00:57:58,387 --> 00:57:59,693
I'm on the shortlist
909
00:57:59,737 --> 00:58:01,913
for Assistant Secretary
for Legislative Affairs.
910
00:58:03,523 --> 00:58:04,916
What about Dave Croft?
911
00:58:05,482 --> 00:58:06,395
Croft's out.
912
00:58:07,875 --> 00:58:10,704
-Well, that's great, then.
-It's a career maker.
913
00:58:11,270 --> 00:58:13,490
E-ring, a view of the river.
914
00:58:14,186 --> 00:58:15,883
Well, since they threw
in the view...
915
00:58:15,927 --> 00:58:18,016
Yeah. I mean,
what's wrong with that?
916
00:58:20,453 --> 00:58:21,672
What about the MOH?
917
00:58:22,847 --> 00:58:25,240
The Pitsenbargers are in town.
918
00:58:25,632 --> 00:58:27,721
Frank's having some tests done
at the VA.
919
00:58:28,374 --> 00:58:29,375
What's wrong with him?
920
00:58:30,768 --> 00:58:32,030
Ewing's sarcoma.
921
00:58:33,161 --> 00:58:34,162
God.
922
00:58:35,555 --> 00:58:37,296
They're gonna be here
for Thanksgiving.
923
00:58:38,166 --> 00:58:41,300
Maybe they'll see our situation
and meet Luke and you and--
924
00:58:41,343 --> 00:58:43,650
You are not using us
as your excuse.
925
00:58:43,694 --> 00:58:46,218
Our life is not an excuse,
Tara, it's a fact.
926
00:58:48,089 --> 00:58:49,351
Besides, Stanton said
he's gonna
927
00:58:49,395 --> 00:58:51,223
have someone pick it up
right where I leave off.
928
00:58:54,095 --> 00:58:55,096
Okay.
929
00:59:00,406 --> 00:59:01,581
We were Michigan fans
930
00:59:01,625 --> 00:59:03,975
long before we moved
to Buckeye country.
931
00:59:04,018 --> 00:59:05,367
It's more than a football game
932
00:59:05,411 --> 00:59:07,413
when the Wolverines come
to Columbus.
933
00:59:07,456 --> 00:59:10,111
-Do you still go to the games?
-Oh, God, no.
934
00:59:10,155 --> 00:59:11,722
-Not since--
-1965.
935
00:59:14,115 --> 00:59:15,029
I'm sorry.
936
00:59:16,204 --> 00:59:17,379
Talking about Bill
937
00:59:17,423 --> 00:59:19,207
is one of the greatest joys
of our life.
938
00:59:19,730 --> 00:59:22,123
Keeping him alive
keeps us strong.
939
00:59:22,471 --> 00:59:23,777
It's how we balance our grief
940
00:59:24,212 --> 00:59:26,432
and how we live a happy life
without him.
941
00:59:26,475 --> 00:59:29,130
- Oh. Huh.
942
00:59:29,653 --> 00:59:30,610
Is that a game?
943
00:59:31,916 --> 00:59:34,527
This is a machine
that gives me my medicine.
944
00:59:36,398 --> 00:59:38,400
-Whoa.
945
00:59:38,444 --> 00:59:40,881
-We are minutes away.
- Yeah, we're ready.
946
00:59:40,925 --> 00:59:43,188
-May I help?
- Oh, uh, Luke, honey,
947
00:59:43,231 --> 00:59:45,146
why don't you show Alice
and Frank your room?
948
00:59:45,190 --> 00:59:46,887
-Thank you, Luke.
-Okay. Okay.
949
00:59:53,894 --> 00:59:55,330
How do you think
I should do this?
950
00:59:56,505 --> 00:59:57,506
Be honest.
951
00:59:59,465 --> 01:00:00,727
I meant the turkey.
952
01:00:35,370 --> 01:00:39,287
Scott, may I, uh...
give the blessing?
953
01:00:40,724 --> 01:00:41,986
Yeah, of course.
954
01:00:43,422 --> 01:00:44,292
Okay.
955
01:00:45,076 --> 01:00:46,164
Heavenly Father...
956
01:00:48,296 --> 01:00:50,908
please bless this food
957
01:00:50,951 --> 01:00:53,650
that it may nourish
this growing family
958
01:00:54,172 --> 01:00:56,130
and the friendship between us.
959
01:00:57,218 --> 01:00:59,656
And give praise
to this young man
960
01:01:00,004 --> 01:01:03,660
as he honors us
with his commitment to ensure
961
01:01:04,399 --> 01:01:06,663
that the sacrifices
of the fallen...
962
01:01:07,751 --> 01:01:09,100
were neither in vain...
963
01:01:10,405 --> 01:01:12,059
nor will they ever be forgotten.
964
01:01:14,061 --> 01:01:15,062
Amen.
965
01:01:23,549 --> 01:01:24,593
What you say, mister?
966
01:01:28,162 --> 01:01:31,252
-What are you doing here?
-Tulley had your number.
967
01:01:31,296 --> 01:01:34,386
So I called, talked
to your wife. Nice woman.
968
01:01:34,908 --> 01:01:36,693
She told me where you was at.
969
01:01:37,258 --> 01:01:38,259
Sit down.
970
01:01:40,697 --> 01:01:42,611
- Coffee?
- No.
971
01:01:51,403 --> 01:01:53,013
You tracked me down
to give me this?
972
01:01:59,324 --> 01:02:02,675
You... never appreciate
973
01:02:02,893 --> 01:02:05,156
what American artillery
can do...
974
01:02:06,157 --> 01:02:08,159
till you see
it waste your own people.
975
01:02:08,899 --> 01:02:10,248
What are you talking about?
976
01:02:11,553 --> 01:02:13,642
The first round killed three
for sure.
977
01:02:14,818 --> 01:02:16,384
Ain't no telling how many
of the wounded
978
01:02:16,428 --> 01:02:19,300
would have died later if the VC
hadn't got to 'em first.
979
01:02:20,824 --> 01:02:23,304
If you give your shooters
a good plot,
980
01:02:23,827 --> 01:02:25,872
them Red Legs could put
a .105 round
981
01:02:25,916 --> 01:02:27,308
inside a pickle barrel.
982
01:02:28,832 --> 01:02:30,834
I got
the distance correction wrong...
983
01:02:32,009 --> 01:02:33,880
and we got thumped
by our own shit.
984
01:02:35,316 --> 01:02:38,667
-What are you saying?
-It was blue on blue, brother.
985
01:02:39,886 --> 01:02:42,019
Friendly fire.
Ain't no getting around that.
986
01:02:42,367 --> 01:02:44,064
-Damage! Damage!
987
01:02:44,108 --> 01:02:45,587
Charlie Three
has a fire mission.
988
01:02:45,631 --> 01:02:49,417
Shift from Queensland,
direction 3-1-0,
989
01:02:49,461 --> 01:02:51,506
-distance 300 meters.
990
01:02:51,550 --> 01:02:52,638
We will adjust.
991
01:02:53,900 --> 01:02:56,990
Shit. Splash. Adjust left 100.
992
01:02:57,730 --> 01:03:00,515
-What the hell was that?
993
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:04,737
Can I get some ammo, please?
994
01:03:05,303 --> 01:03:06,783
I need some fucking ammo.
995
01:03:11,004 --> 01:03:12,266
Man down!
996
01:03:12,310 --> 01:03:14,878
Charlie Three
has a fire mission. Drop 100.
997
01:03:14,921 --> 01:03:16,140
Fire for effect.
998
01:03:16,488 --> 01:03:19,534
Make it danger close.
Make it danger close.
999
01:03:21,319 --> 01:03:23,887
-Move up! Move up!
1000
01:03:32,460 --> 01:03:33,548
Medic!
1001
01:03:34,549 --> 01:03:35,812
-Medic!
1002
01:03:36,464 --> 01:03:40,207
So when Tulley says
I'm the one what started it,
1003
01:03:40,904 --> 01:03:42,514
that's what he really means.
1004
01:03:44,255 --> 01:03:45,473
The truth is...
1005
01:03:47,606 --> 01:03:49,086
I killed my own men.
1006
01:03:51,305 --> 01:03:52,916
If I get those numbers right...
1007
01:03:54,352 --> 01:03:56,833
Pitsenbarger probably never
even gets that call,
1008
01:03:57,703 --> 01:03:59,879
never comes down that wire,
never...
1009
01:04:01,185 --> 01:04:02,316
saves my life.
1010
01:04:04,623 --> 01:04:07,191
Maybe he's the one sitting
on a riverbank somewhere
1011
01:04:07,234 --> 01:04:10,934
with his grandkids around him,
and that'd been fine by me.
1012
01:04:12,805 --> 01:04:14,328
Instead he's dead...
1013
01:04:16,243 --> 01:04:18,724
and they gave me
the goddamn Silver Star.
1014
01:04:19,638 --> 01:04:22,032
For what? Surviving?
1015
01:04:23,947 --> 01:04:26,166
I sit around year in
and year out thinking
1016
01:04:26,210 --> 01:04:27,864
about 20 seconds
1017
01:04:28,212 --> 01:04:31,650
32 years ago I wish to God
I could have back.
1018
01:04:34,174 --> 01:04:35,610
Surviving isn't a crime.
1019
01:04:37,743 --> 01:04:40,877
No, it ain't...
but it's a life sentence.
1020
01:04:42,226 --> 01:04:43,880
Getting that medal for Pits,
1021
01:04:44,228 --> 01:04:46,360
for his family,
for the men I lost,
1022
01:04:47,100 --> 01:04:50,408
might be the only decent thing
I get to pull out of that war.
1023
01:04:52,410 --> 01:04:55,500
So, why don't you go on back up
to Washington
1024
01:04:55,543 --> 01:04:57,241
and make that happen, all right?
1025
01:05:12,299 --> 01:05:13,518
Daddy.
1026
01:05:13,561 --> 01:05:15,520
-Hey.
1027
01:05:15,824 --> 01:05:18,001
-I'm thirsty.
1028
01:05:18,740 --> 01:05:20,917
Okay, buddy,
let's get you a drink.
1029
01:05:21,874 --> 01:05:24,442
Daddy, are those the army men
you're helping?
1030
01:05:27,924 --> 01:05:30,448
Yeah, they are.
1031
01:05:33,581 --> 01:05:35,670
Do you want me to be a army man?
1032
01:05:37,368 --> 01:05:40,632
-Hey. What's going on?
-Hey.
1033
01:05:42,764 --> 01:05:43,940
He just needs a drink.
1034
01:05:45,332 --> 01:05:48,422
Oh, I see. Let's go get you
some water, huh?
1035
01:05:50,511 --> 01:05:53,166
-Everything okay?
-Yeah. See you in a bit.
1036
01:05:53,210 --> 01:05:56,343
Okay. All right.
Let's get you some water.
1037
01:06:03,046 --> 01:06:05,526
Well, Jim, I was deployed
to Vietnam
1038
01:06:05,570 --> 01:06:07,441
at a very interesting point
during the war,
1039
01:06:07,485 --> 01:06:08,747
and that's really
what prompted me
1040
01:06:08,790 --> 01:06:09,791
to write the book.
1041
01:06:11,097 --> 01:06:13,056
I was initially serving
as the G3,
1042
01:06:13,099 --> 01:06:14,666
or operations officer,
1043
01:06:14,709 --> 01:06:18,104
for the 1st Infantry Division,
the Big Red One,
1044
01:06:18,539 --> 01:06:20,019
now, we were deployed, uh,
1045
01:06:20,063 --> 01:06:21,542
-northwest of Saigon...
1046
01:06:21,586 --> 01:06:22,848
...in a very crucial area
1047
01:06:22,891 --> 01:06:24,241
-next to the capital...
1048
01:06:24,284 --> 01:06:25,285
...Saigon then,
1049
01:06:25,329 --> 01:06:26,460
-now Ho Chi Minh City.
-Hello?
1050
01:06:28,071 --> 01:06:29,811
Now, what I meant by a very interesting period...
1051
01:06:36,296 --> 01:06:37,297
Hey.
1052
01:06:38,516 --> 01:06:40,692
-Where is he? Can I see him?
-Slow down.
1053
01:06:41,258 --> 01:06:42,259
Okay.
1054
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:52,965
Hey, Frank.
1055
01:06:54,227 --> 01:06:56,229
Got someone here to see you.
It's the FNG.
1056
01:06:56,969 --> 01:06:59,972
-Mr. Huffman.
-How you doing, Frank?
1057
01:07:00,016 --> 01:07:01,974
All the better
for seeing you.
1058
01:07:03,367 --> 01:07:04,629
Thank you for coming.
1059
01:07:05,108 --> 01:07:06,065
Of course.
1060
01:07:08,285 --> 01:07:09,938
He gave me a call and, uh...
1061
01:07:11,897 --> 01:07:13,768
-here I am.
- Right.
1062
01:07:18,643 --> 01:07:19,687
Is he dying?
1063
01:07:20,732 --> 01:07:22,038
We're all dying, son.
1064
01:07:25,780 --> 01:07:27,347
I think he's holding on...
1065
01:07:29,828 --> 01:07:31,308
for you to get this done.
1066
01:07:33,136 --> 01:07:34,920
Why are you in the middle
of everything?
1067
01:07:35,529 --> 01:07:40,056
I mean, what's in it for you?
He didn't save your life.
1068
01:07:41,057 --> 01:07:42,058
Didn't he?
1069
01:07:43,885 --> 01:07:45,409
So you feel like you owe?
1070
01:07:45,757 --> 01:07:47,324
Absolutely.
1071
01:07:48,368 --> 01:07:50,370
You asked me if I had an agenda.
1072
01:07:50,718 --> 01:07:54,026
It's those people upstairs.
1073
01:07:55,593 --> 01:07:56,855
Now, what about you?
1074
01:08:00,206 --> 01:08:02,339
We'd already been out
two weeks on patrol,
1075
01:08:02,382 --> 01:08:05,429
but once we tangled
with those NVA forces,
1076
01:08:05,472 --> 01:08:08,388
naturally we got the duty.
1077
01:08:08,693 --> 01:08:11,217
- Duty?
- Bait, brother.
1078
01:08:11,696 --> 01:08:12,697
Live bait.
1079
01:08:14,046 --> 01:08:15,874
They put us there
to make contact.
1080
01:08:15,917 --> 01:08:19,921
Alpha and Bravo would flank
and we'd grind 'em into pulp.
1081
01:08:21,097 --> 01:08:23,142
Why don't you
just ask Chauncey Kepper?
1082
01:08:23,186 --> 01:08:25,057
He wrote
the after-action report.
1083
01:08:25,449 --> 01:08:27,625
He's the sage of
Southeast Asia.
1084
01:08:28,191 --> 01:08:29,540
We've all been there
to see him.
1085
01:08:31,368 --> 01:08:32,717
If there's anyone who knows
where the bodies are buried,
1086
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:34,066
it's Kepper.
1087
01:08:40,638 --> 01:08:44,120
I found this.
May the second, 1966.
1088
01:08:44,424 --> 01:08:47,688
Interview with Mr. Kurtz.
1089
01:08:48,559 --> 01:08:50,778
Ex-pat,
Sergeant Chauncey Kepper.
1090
01:08:51,431 --> 01:08:53,041
He wrote
the after-action report.
1091
01:08:53,085 --> 01:08:54,086
Apparently.
1092
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:56,480
What I can't understand is
why nobody from the DOD
1093
01:08:56,523 --> 01:08:57,698
ever talked to him.
1094
01:08:58,177 --> 01:09:01,137
Southeast Asia
is supposed to be beautiful.
1095
01:09:39,523 --> 01:09:40,698
Down that way.
1096
01:09:41,264 --> 01:09:42,569
-Over there.
-Okay.
1097
01:09:59,412 --> 01:10:00,500
Ahoy there.
1098
01:10:20,651 --> 01:10:22,000
You pray, Mr. Huffman?
1099
01:10:22,957 --> 01:10:24,002
Not really.
1100
01:10:24,524 --> 01:10:27,005
I didn't either.
I prayed that day.
1101
01:10:28,049 --> 01:10:29,268
Prayed for a miracle...
1102
01:10:30,051 --> 01:10:32,402
and one came. His name is Pits.
1103
01:10:33,272 --> 01:10:34,534
- We're gonna
1104
01:10:34,578 --> 01:10:36,710
get you home, huh?
You're gonna go back home?
1105
01:10:37,276 --> 01:10:39,626
Man, you're gonna have
one hell of a scar
1106
01:10:39,670 --> 01:10:40,975
-by the end of summer.
1107
01:10:41,585 --> 01:10:43,369
She's gonna be impressed
with this one.
1108
01:10:44,805 --> 01:10:47,025
All right, I got
some pain relief coming up.
1109
01:10:48,331 --> 01:10:50,637
All right, hold tight, bud.
Hold tight.
1110
01:10:51,464 --> 01:10:53,771
There you go, buddy.
There you go.
1111
01:10:56,339 --> 01:10:59,385
- One, two, three.
1112
01:11:05,130 --> 01:11:06,523
Pits, come on!
1113
01:11:13,617 --> 01:11:16,620
-Come on!
-All right, buddy. Here we go.
1114
01:11:20,406 --> 01:11:21,886
Okay. Let's go!
1115
01:11:51,045 --> 01:11:52,308
Come on!
1116
01:11:53,831 --> 01:11:55,528
Pits, let's go!
1117
01:12:33,174 --> 01:12:37,048
That after-action report
that you wrote on the battle.
1118
01:12:39,398 --> 01:12:40,660
A lot of it is missing.
1119
01:12:41,095 --> 01:12:42,401
Everything that I wrote
1120
01:12:43,054 --> 01:12:46,100
went up the Saigon chimney
32 years ago, brother.
1121
01:12:46,449 --> 01:12:49,321
Look, I-- I talked to a lot
of the guys
1122
01:12:49,365 --> 01:12:50,757
in Charlie Company and...
1123
01:12:52,455 --> 01:12:55,414
no one seems to know.
I mean, who even thought up
1124
01:12:55,806 --> 01:12:57,764
Operation Abilene
in the first place?
1125
01:12:58,156 --> 01:13:00,506
Company CO, Mad Matty Holt.
1126
01:13:03,379 --> 01:13:05,468
-Madison Holt?
-Colonel.
1127
01:13:05,946 --> 01:13:07,948
He's a big shot
in Washington now, I think.
1128
01:13:13,911 --> 01:13:16,043
Yeah, Senator Holt.
1129
01:13:18,002 --> 01:13:20,091
Maybe gonna be
Secretary of Defense one day.
1130
01:13:23,486 --> 01:13:24,704
He was a good CO.
1131
01:13:25,966 --> 01:13:28,404
It was a very bad day.
1132
01:13:30,841 --> 01:13:32,669
So why do these vets
come here to see you?
1133
01:13:33,147 --> 01:13:34,975
Why they come here
is none of my business.
1134
01:13:35,976 --> 01:13:37,151
Well, what do you do here?
1135
01:13:38,370 --> 01:13:40,807
I live, I love, and listen.
1136
01:13:41,329 --> 01:13:42,635
-So you listen to them?
-Yeah.
1137
01:13:42,679 --> 01:13:44,071
-To the vets.
-Uh-huh.
1138
01:13:45,159 --> 01:13:47,727
Try to rewrite their story,
help 'em.
1139
01:13:48,511 --> 01:13:49,860
You can't change their past.
1140
01:13:50,121 --> 01:13:52,297
But you can change
your perspective.
1141
01:13:52,863 --> 01:13:55,213
You can create new memories,
1142
01:13:55,692 --> 01:13:58,216
happy memories,
even in a sad place.
1143
01:14:02,263 --> 01:14:03,264
It's choices.
1144
01:14:04,962 --> 01:14:06,485
Our guys come through here,
1145
01:14:07,355 --> 01:14:09,488
people think the war
is who those men are.
1146
01:14:09,532 --> 01:14:11,098
It's not.
It's what happened to 'em.
1147
01:14:12,230 --> 01:14:13,449
And it's just wonderful to,
1148
01:14:14,058 --> 01:14:15,581
kind of, go through stuff
with 'em.
1149
01:14:17,104 --> 01:14:19,324
Hey, I wanna show you something.
1150
01:14:20,281 --> 01:14:21,152
Shh.
1151
01:14:44,131 --> 01:14:45,350
This is incredible.
1152
01:14:48,353 --> 01:14:50,834
I never brought anyone
who didn't feel happy here.
1153
01:14:54,490 --> 01:14:55,621
You did all this?
1154
01:14:56,579 --> 01:14:57,580
Yep.
1155
01:14:59,451 --> 01:15:01,366
You know where we are?
1156
01:15:03,499 --> 01:15:04,630
Uh...
1157
01:15:05,936 --> 01:15:06,937
No.
1158
01:15:07,894 --> 01:15:09,200
This is where he came down.
1159
01:15:09,896 --> 01:15:10,897
Pits.
1160
01:15:12,551 --> 01:15:13,857
I thought I saw an angel.
1161
01:15:15,598 --> 01:15:19,123
And there he was right in front
of me, all clean and pressed.
1162
01:15:19,863 --> 01:15:21,517
Air Force.
1163
01:15:23,083 --> 01:15:24,258
This is Abilene.
1164
01:15:25,042 --> 01:15:26,652
-Here?
-Right here...
1165
01:15:27,435 --> 01:15:28,524
under your feet.
1166
01:15:30,526 --> 01:15:31,831
But now it's Avalon.
1167
01:15:33,050 --> 01:15:34,051
Avalon.
1168
01:15:35,922 --> 01:15:37,097
Avalon.
1169
01:15:38,838 --> 01:15:40,492
Now, how can that be possible...
1170
01:15:41,537 --> 01:15:43,669
to have those two things
in the same place?
1171
01:15:45,758 --> 01:15:48,369
Just stay here
for a while...
1172
01:15:49,588 --> 01:15:50,720
and breathe.
1173
01:16:39,943 --> 01:16:40,944
Let it go.
1174
01:17:15,631 --> 01:17:19,025
The veterans hold
something for all of us.
1175
01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:23,551
They take the shame of war,
denial...
1176
01:17:26,816 --> 01:17:27,817
anger.
1177
01:17:29,253 --> 01:17:32,822
They just come here
so somebody'll listen to them.
1178
01:17:33,953 --> 01:17:35,694
That's why medals
are so important.
1179
01:17:35,738 --> 01:17:38,610
It helps--
It helps bring us together,
1180
01:17:39,263 --> 01:17:40,568
tell stories.
1181
01:17:41,831 --> 01:17:43,180
I'm-- I'm just a witness.
1182
01:17:44,311 --> 01:17:45,704
You're a witness, too.
1183
01:17:50,666 --> 01:17:52,580
The Vietnamese love
their khom loi.
1184
01:17:53,581 --> 01:17:55,366
It's symbolic for letting go...
1185
01:17:56,410 --> 01:17:58,499
and if you have something
that you...
1186
01:17:59,762 --> 01:18:01,241
You wanna leave here...
1187
01:18:02,373 --> 01:18:03,809
something you brought
with you...
1188
01:18:04,767 --> 01:18:07,030
you don't want to take back...
1189
01:18:08,945 --> 01:18:10,337
well, just let go.
1190
01:18:37,930 --> 01:18:41,804
-They're coming!
1191
01:18:44,154 --> 01:18:45,198
Let's go!
1192
01:18:49,289 --> 01:18:50,856
I'm on the hook with Red Leg.
1193
01:18:50,900 --> 01:18:52,336
Tell them to drop it on top
of us.
1194
01:18:52,379 --> 01:18:54,164
Charlie Six,
emergency fire mission.
1195
01:18:56,732 --> 01:18:58,777
- Call them in now!
- Damage. Damage.
1196
01:18:58,821 --> 01:19:01,040
Charlie Six,
emergency fire mission.
1197
01:19:01,084 --> 01:19:03,347
-Quebec Tango 633.
1198
01:19:10,354 --> 01:19:12,573
Damage, damage.
Charlie Six.
1199
01:19:12,617 --> 01:19:15,838
Emergency fire mission.
Quebec Tango 633.
1200
01:19:15,881 --> 01:19:18,579
This is Broken Arrow.
We are being overrun.
1201
01:19:19,189 --> 01:19:20,712
Hold this.
Keep pressure on it.
1202
01:19:21,104 --> 01:19:22,627
Somebody's still out there!
1203
01:19:22,670 --> 01:19:24,890
I need a tourniquet,
I'm bleeding out.
1204
01:19:26,109 --> 01:19:27,675
I need you to do me a favor.
1205
01:19:28,546 --> 01:19:30,026
I need to get this to someone.
1206
01:19:30,069 --> 01:19:31,854
-No.
- Please?
1207
01:19:31,897 --> 01:19:33,725
-No.
-It's a stamp.
1208
01:19:35,379 --> 01:19:36,902
I'll hold onto it
till you get back.
1209
01:19:36,946 --> 01:19:38,512
-Okay.
1210
01:19:41,864 --> 01:19:43,082
What are you doing, man?
1211
01:19:44,475 --> 01:19:46,303
You've done enough,
brother. You be still.
1212
01:20:00,534 --> 01:20:03,886
Pits came down,
saved lives, evac'ed wounded,
1213
01:20:03,929 --> 01:20:07,672
fought, died alongside men
he never even knew.
1214
01:20:09,805 --> 01:20:11,154
You pray, Mr. Huffman?
1215
01:20:12,416 --> 01:20:15,201
I prayed that day.
Prayed for a miracle.
1216
01:20:16,768 --> 01:20:18,857
I ain't never seen
nobody die before.
1217
01:20:19,118 --> 01:20:20,641
Coming out!
1218
01:20:22,513 --> 01:20:23,775
That little matter sucked
1219
01:20:23,819 --> 01:20:25,516
all the whoop-ass right out
of me.
1220
01:20:26,560 --> 01:20:28,171
Understand
what I'm saying, sir?
1221
01:20:33,437 --> 01:20:35,265
All this hellfire coming in.
1222
01:20:35,918 --> 01:20:37,136
To him it was like...
1223
01:20:38,921 --> 01:20:40,183
nothing could hurt him.
1224
01:20:42,011 --> 01:20:44,013
He was there to save lives
and that's what he was doing.
1225
01:20:47,494 --> 01:20:48,800
Who knows how many guys
are walking
1226
01:20:48,844 --> 01:20:49,322
around alive today
because of him,
1227
01:20:50,149 --> 01:20:51,368
what he done.
1228
01:20:53,805 --> 01:20:55,372
When he didn't come back...
1229
01:20:58,331 --> 01:21:01,160
I felt like the best part of me went down with him.
1230
01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:06,557
I still think about it,
'cause...
1231
01:21:07,688 --> 01:21:09,777
...if anybody deserved
to get out of that hell alive,
1232
01:21:10,474 --> 01:21:11,605
it was him.
1233
01:21:17,437 --> 01:21:18,612
Make yourself at home.
1234
01:21:20,266 --> 01:21:21,877
You know,
I could have you arrested.
1235
01:21:23,095 --> 01:21:26,925
Senator Madison Holt,
formerly Colonel Madison Holt.
1236
01:21:27,186 --> 01:21:29,928
First Infantry Division,
the Big Red One.
1237
01:21:29,972 --> 01:21:32,148
The senator's distinguished
military career
1238
01:21:32,191 --> 01:21:35,542
is a matter of public record.
It's undisputed.
1239
01:21:35,586 --> 01:21:38,502
-I bought the book, Carl.
-Yeah? Did you read it,
1240
01:21:38,545 --> 01:21:40,373
or did you just look
at the pictures?
1241
01:21:40,417 --> 01:21:41,940
Holt was part of the brass
1242
01:21:41,984 --> 01:21:43,550
that cooked up
Operation Abilene.
1243
01:21:44,508 --> 01:21:48,773
You're not really suggesting
that Holt ordered an NVA ambush?
1244
01:21:48,816 --> 01:21:50,993
I'm suggesting that it'd be
pretty convenient for you
1245
01:21:51,036 --> 01:21:52,298
to keep that off the record...
1246
01:21:52,777 --> 01:21:54,300
...which is why
you put me on it,
1247
01:21:54,344 --> 01:21:56,433
because you knew I'd dump it.
1248
01:21:57,695 --> 01:21:59,740
You know, Holt's gonna be
Secretary of Defense someday,
1249
01:21:59,784 --> 01:22:01,003
maybe even president.
1250
01:22:01,568 --> 01:22:02,743
You had the comm...
1251
01:22:03,570 --> 01:22:05,964
Command endorsements
all this time.
1252
01:22:09,315 --> 01:22:10,360
I'm taking them.
1253
01:22:11,839 --> 01:22:13,798
Have you ever been the subject
of opposition research?
1254
01:22:14,842 --> 01:22:16,366
'Cause if you even twitch
on this,
1255
01:22:16,409 --> 01:22:18,368
I will have them on you
like spray paint.
1256
01:22:18,934 --> 01:22:21,023
You'll never get
another mortgage, passport,
1257
01:22:21,066 --> 01:22:24,461
or Sam's Club membership card
1258
01:22:25,592 --> 01:22:27,681
let alone
a political appointment.
1259
01:22:30,641 --> 01:22:31,859
But I'm not worried
about all that.
1260
01:22:33,078 --> 01:22:35,515
-Why not?
-Because it's not in your nature
1261
01:22:35,559 --> 01:22:37,082
to spit in the face of a man
1262
01:22:37,126 --> 01:22:39,171
who could just
as easily make you.
1263
01:22:39,650 --> 01:22:40,825
What's my nature?
1264
01:22:40,868 --> 01:22:43,001
Climb, prosper,
expand the gene pool,
1265
01:22:43,262 --> 01:22:44,524
just like the rest of us.
1266
01:22:45,525 --> 01:22:46,526
I'd appreciate it
1267
01:22:47,963 --> 01:22:49,834
if you'd leave the place
the way you found it, and...
1268
01:22:50,835 --> 01:22:54,882
don't forget,
we got squash, Wednesday.
1269
01:23:02,673 --> 01:23:03,761
Jenny,
1270
01:23:05,154 --> 01:23:06,242
sometimes it's difficult
to understand
1271
01:23:06,285 --> 01:23:07,634
why we've been sent here,
1272
01:23:08,287 --> 01:23:10,289
or to explain what happens.
1273
01:23:11,116 --> 01:23:11,987
I only have a minute,
1274
01:23:13,379 --> 01:23:14,859
since we got a call
to make pick-ups
1275
01:23:14,902 --> 01:23:16,469
near Xa Cam My,
about 30 klicks from here.
1276
01:23:17,470 --> 01:23:18,645
You know, Jenny,
1277
01:23:19,298 --> 01:23:21,518
the only thing I fear of dying
1278
01:23:21,822 --> 01:23:23,781
is that dreams
of you won't come,
1279
01:23:24,608 --> 01:23:27,567
that death is dark and still
1280
01:23:28,307 --> 01:23:30,527
and endless
like these jungle nights.
1281
01:23:32,485 --> 01:23:34,096
But sometimes I think, Jen,
1282
01:23:34,792 --> 01:23:37,055
maybe it is this place
I'll wake up from,
1283
01:23:37,708 --> 01:23:40,015
safe and warm in your bed,
1284
01:23:40,363 --> 01:23:42,408
the morning light streaming in.
1285
01:23:45,498 --> 01:23:47,631
But if it is the thunder here
that's real,
1286
01:23:48,066 --> 01:23:50,416
and if this letter should reach you instead of me,
1287
01:23:51,330 --> 01:23:53,202
then know that I am never far.
1288
01:23:54,681 --> 01:23:57,162
Take care of Mom
and especially Dad,
1289
01:23:57,206 --> 01:23:59,817
because he'll take this
worst of all.
1290
01:24:00,818 --> 01:24:03,734
Tell them I'm sorry for what I've put them through,
1291
01:24:04,474 --> 01:24:06,302
but that I am sure
of my purpose
1292
01:24:06,824 --> 01:24:08,913
and in the words
we all believe,
1293
01:24:09,827 --> 01:24:13,396
these things we do
that others may live.
1294
01:24:14,397 --> 01:24:15,485
Bill.
1295
01:24:20,925 --> 01:24:22,405
You have an impeccable record.
1296
01:24:23,841 --> 01:24:26,278
The secretary has given you
his highest recommendation.
1297
01:24:27,192 --> 01:24:28,193
Thank you, sir.
1298
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:31,022
So why do you think you'd be
effective in this position?
1299
01:24:32,545 --> 01:24:35,722
Well, I'm connected,
1300
01:24:36,593 --> 01:24:38,943
ambitious, persuasive...
1301
01:24:40,423 --> 01:24:41,641
not afraid to make enemies,
1302
01:24:41,685 --> 01:24:43,948
and I want this job more
than anybody.
1303
01:24:45,254 --> 01:24:48,083
At least that's what I would
have said a month ago.
1304
01:24:48,692 --> 01:24:49,693
Okay.
1305
01:24:50,998 --> 01:24:51,999
And today?
1306
01:24:54,219 --> 01:24:55,394
Today I'm...
1307
01:24:57,004 --> 01:24:58,136
just unavailable.
1308
01:25:07,145 --> 01:25:08,146
Air Force?
1309
01:25:09,843 --> 01:25:10,931
Yeah.
1310
01:25:12,542 --> 01:25:14,239
I'm sorry about your buddy, man.
1311
01:25:16,981 --> 01:25:18,156
I'm so sorry.
1312
01:25:43,442 --> 01:25:46,010
The whole time
I'm washing him...
1313
01:25:47,403 --> 01:25:50,319
his feet and his hands...
1314
01:25:56,238 --> 01:25:57,717
I didn't feel anything.
1315
01:25:59,066 --> 01:26:00,111
Nothing.
1316
01:26:01,460 --> 01:26:03,332
That's when I knew
I'd been there...
1317
01:26:04,246 --> 01:26:05,334
too long.
1318
01:26:07,205 --> 01:26:08,467
I shipped him back...
1319
01:26:09,555 --> 01:26:12,471
and I finished my tour
and I got on with my life.
1320
01:26:16,780 --> 01:26:17,781
Did you?
1321
01:26:18,695 --> 01:26:19,739
Did I what?
1322
01:26:20,436 --> 01:26:21,872
Get on with your life?
1323
01:26:23,613 --> 01:26:24,701
I'm standing here.
1324
01:26:28,183 --> 01:26:29,184
You know...
1325
01:26:30,620 --> 01:26:31,969
when I was five years old...
1326
01:26:33,797 --> 01:26:36,582
I watched my father
pack up his things in his car
1327
01:26:36,626 --> 01:26:39,281
and leave my mother and me.
1328
01:26:41,544 --> 01:26:42,632
I was so afraid.
1329
01:26:44,503 --> 01:26:45,678
It hurt so much.
1330
01:26:47,941 --> 01:26:50,814
I ran out to the driveway,
and I...
1331
01:26:52,294 --> 01:26:56,907
shoved my hand in the car door
as he slammed it shut.
1332
01:26:58,430 --> 01:27:00,215
I thought that if he saw
I was injured
1333
01:27:00,258 --> 01:27:01,868
and really hurt,
then he would...
1334
01:27:02,782 --> 01:27:03,914
have to take me to the hospital
1335
01:27:05,524 --> 01:27:08,005
and the doctor would tell him
to stay and take care of me.
1336
01:27:11,226 --> 01:27:12,488
But he just drove away.
1337
01:27:15,447 --> 01:27:18,145
I chased his car down
the street,
1338
01:27:18,189 --> 01:27:19,756
my hand all mangled, and...
1339
01:27:22,280 --> 01:27:25,022
till my mother scooped me up.
1340
01:27:30,157 --> 01:27:31,985
Ah. You were marked.
1341
01:27:34,118 --> 01:27:35,250
Just like you.
1342
01:27:39,602 --> 01:27:43,432
What happened to you
on April 11th, 1966?
1343
01:27:44,563 --> 01:27:45,695
My friend died.
1344
01:27:46,652 --> 01:27:48,045
What happened to you?
1345
01:27:50,352 --> 01:27:52,528
-I told you.
-It's okay.
1346
01:27:53,703 --> 01:27:54,704
It's not okay.
1347
01:27:55,226 --> 01:27:57,141
-Just--
-Nothing about it is okay.
1348
01:27:57,184 --> 01:27:58,664
Just tell me.
1349
01:27:59,012 --> 01:28:01,276
What is it? What--
What was it? What happened?
1350
01:28:02,799 --> 01:28:07,151
He died. He got killed.
He got shot in the head.
1351
01:28:07,194 --> 01:28:11,198
-And the-- Well, that's war.
-Right, right, it was war.
1352
01:28:11,242 --> 01:28:13,897
So how long are you going
to punish yourself?
1353
01:28:13,940 --> 01:28:17,248
-Punish myself?
-What was the thing you did?
1354
01:28:17,292 --> 01:28:18,728
-What'd I do?
-Yeah.
1355
01:28:19,163 --> 01:28:20,556
Just tell me,
what was the thing you did?
1356
01:28:20,599 --> 01:28:23,123
-No, you stop it.
-It's okay to talk about it.
1357
01:28:23,167 --> 01:28:25,648
-You better stop it, man.
-Just say it.
1358
01:28:26,562 --> 01:28:27,563
Say what?
1359
01:28:28,825 --> 01:28:31,654
He knew it was dangerous.
I told him...
1360
01:28:32,524 --> 01:28:34,004
to be goddamn careful...
1361
01:28:34,918 --> 01:28:36,180
And? What?
1362
01:28:36,702 --> 01:28:39,139
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm not doing this.
1363
01:28:39,183 --> 01:28:41,228
-Doing what?
-Doing this.
1364
01:28:42,578 --> 01:28:44,884
I told him to come back up,
1365
01:28:44,928 --> 01:28:47,191
get back on the wire,
get back in the ship.
1366
01:28:47,496 --> 01:28:49,628
He didn't do that.
Why didn't he do that,
1367
01:28:49,672 --> 01:28:50,629
get back in the ship?
1368
01:28:51,978 --> 01:28:52,718
Because he couldn't.
Because people needed him.
1369
01:28:52,762 --> 01:28:54,503
Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?
1370
01:28:54,546 --> 01:28:56,679
Well, fuck you and...
1371
01:28:59,421 --> 01:29:00,726
Oh, God.
1372
01:29:10,170 --> 01:29:11,607
It's gotta hurt to be mad
at him.
1373
01:29:11,650 --> 01:29:12,999
Yeah.
1374
01:29:14,305 --> 01:29:15,872
What else happened to you, Tom?
1375
01:29:16,307 --> 01:29:19,092
I--
I stayed in the bird
1376
01:29:19,789 --> 01:29:22,835
and I-- I--
I didn't go down. I...
1377
01:29:24,184 --> 01:29:25,882
I was relieved. I...
1378
01:29:26,491 --> 01:29:29,146
I stayed, you know,
where it was safe.
1379
01:29:31,931 --> 01:29:33,324
God, when I found him...
1380
01:29:35,152 --> 01:29:36,196
I was...
1381
01:29:39,330 --> 01:29:40,636
...I was glad...
1382
01:29:43,334 --> 01:29:46,990
that it wasn't me,
that I didn't wanna be dead,
1383
01:29:47,033 --> 01:29:48,774
I-- I was alive and it...
1384
01:29:51,821 --> 01:29:53,649
-...it felt good.
-You did feel something.
1385
01:29:53,692 --> 01:29:55,564
Yeah, I felt ashamed!
1386
01:30:02,571 --> 01:30:04,224
You're not a coward, Tom.
1387
01:30:07,619 --> 01:30:08,925
You're a hero.
1388
01:30:12,276 --> 01:30:13,625
-Deal with that.
1389
01:30:17,020 --> 01:30:18,064
Just let me...
1390
01:30:19,326 --> 01:30:21,024
Let me have it for a while.
Come on.
1391
01:30:37,867 --> 01:30:41,087
Do you know
what I want?
1392
01:30:41,871 --> 01:30:43,089
I do.
1393
01:30:46,049 --> 01:30:49,531
I want some grace.
I want some serenity.
1394
01:30:50,096 --> 01:30:52,795
I want my country
to honor my brother
1395
01:30:53,099 --> 01:30:54,710
before his parents.
1396
01:30:56,799 --> 01:30:59,541
I want my friend,
your friend...
1397
01:31:01,760 --> 01:31:06,286
I want his father to leave
this place in peace.
1398
01:31:31,137 --> 01:31:32,748
Can I get you
anything else, Senator?
1399
01:31:32,791 --> 01:31:34,663
-No, thanks, hon.
-You can put it on my number.
1400
01:31:34,706 --> 01:31:36,099
- Okay.
- Gentlemen.
1401
01:31:36,142 --> 01:31:37,187
Hey, Carl.
1402
01:31:37,579 --> 01:31:38,623
Colonel.
1403
01:31:39,406 --> 01:31:41,539
-Do I know you?
-I should hope so.
1404
01:31:42,235 --> 01:31:43,976
Master Sergeant Thomas Tulley.
1405
01:31:44,020 --> 01:31:46,718
38th Rescue Squadron,
Operation Abilene.
1406
01:31:46,762 --> 01:31:48,546
Uh, you want to speak
to the senator,
1407
01:31:48,590 --> 01:31:50,548
-you go through channels.
- It's all right, Carl.
1408
01:31:51,114 --> 01:31:52,463
I'll talk to these men.
1409
01:31:53,464 --> 01:31:56,598
Sir, this is a 1966 routing memo
1410
01:31:56,641 --> 01:31:58,948
between you
and General Hackmeyer
1411
01:31:58,991 --> 01:32:00,776
downgrading
the William H. Pitsenbarger
1412
01:32:00,819 --> 01:32:01,907
Medal of Honor request
1413
01:32:03,343 --> 01:32:05,607
to an Air Force Cross,
dated on October 7th, 1966.
1414
01:32:05,650 --> 01:32:07,217
Guys, you wanna give us
a second?
1415
01:32:07,260 --> 01:32:08,174
Go ahead.
1416
01:32:11,874 --> 01:32:12,962
Have a seat.
1417
01:32:15,617 --> 01:32:16,966
We have an opportunity
1418
01:32:17,619 --> 01:32:20,752
to upgrade the Cross
to the Medal of Honor.
1419
01:32:21,710 --> 01:32:25,278
To cut through the bullshit,
we need a congressional sponsor.
1420
01:32:25,627 --> 01:32:27,280
Mr. Stanton doesn't
think you'd favor
1421
01:32:27,324 --> 01:32:29,282
the publicity
of being associated
1422
01:32:29,326 --> 01:32:31,371
with Operation Abilene
during an election year.
1423
01:32:31,633 --> 01:32:33,591
You have no idea
what you're starting.
1424
01:32:34,287 --> 01:32:35,767
I think I do, Carl.
1425
01:32:38,378 --> 01:32:39,728
Have you ever been
1426
01:32:39,771 --> 01:32:40,990
the subject
of opposition research?
1427
01:32:41,164 --> 01:32:42,644
'Cause if you even twitch
on this,
1428
01:32:42,687 --> 01:32:45,472
I will have them on you
like spray paint.
1429
01:32:46,561 --> 01:32:50,129
Information was removed
from the original package
1430
01:32:50,173 --> 01:32:52,741
to disqualify the decorations
board's review
1431
01:32:52,784 --> 01:32:54,612
for congressional reapplication.
1432
01:32:54,656 --> 01:32:56,527
We have since recovered
those documents.
1433
01:32:57,136 --> 01:32:58,616
This-- This, Senator, this--
1434
01:32:58,660 --> 01:33:00,400
This communiqué
is simply a response
1435
01:33:00,444 --> 01:33:02,533
to the colonel's MOH request
1436
01:33:02,577 --> 01:33:05,841
saying that the Air Force Cross
was awarded instead.
1437
01:33:05,884 --> 01:33:08,191
It's pretty open
to interpretation.
1438
01:33:08,234 --> 01:33:11,498
You are under no obligation
to respond to any of this.
1439
01:33:11,542 --> 01:33:14,110
If you sent it
up the chain,
1440
01:33:14,763 --> 01:33:16,286
why didn't he get it then?
1441
01:33:17,940 --> 01:33:19,289
Honestly, I don't know.
1442
01:33:19,942 --> 01:33:22,814
Maybe it fell
through the cracks somewhere.
1443
01:33:23,336 --> 01:33:25,948
Maybe MACV didn't wanna call
too much attention
1444
01:33:25,991 --> 01:33:28,298
to one of the bloodiest days
of the war.
1445
01:33:29,081 --> 01:33:32,476
Or maybe
I just didn't fight hard enough
1446
01:33:32,519 --> 01:33:34,217
to get this man
what he deserves.
1447
01:33:34,260 --> 01:33:37,873
Senator, your political enemies
will take full advantage
1448
01:33:37,916 --> 01:33:40,223
of any admission of wrongdoing.
1449
01:33:40,266 --> 01:33:42,747
Your military judgement
will be called into question.
1450
01:33:42,791 --> 01:33:44,793
They'll try and hold you
to the Medina standard.
1451
01:33:44,836 --> 01:33:46,795
He's right, sir. They might.
1452
01:33:50,146 --> 01:33:51,364
What happened on...
1453
01:33:52,975 --> 01:33:54,106
Operation Abilene,
1454
01:33:55,455 --> 01:33:56,413
one of the darkest days
of my life.
1455
01:33:57,414 --> 01:33:58,633
You're hurt, Lieutenant.
1456
01:33:59,546 --> 01:34:00,722
Why are you still here?
1457
01:34:02,332 --> 01:34:04,551
I won't leave
till you have all my wounded.
1458
01:34:08,991 --> 01:34:10,035
What happened here?
1459
01:34:12,124 --> 01:34:14,039
You marched us right
into a kill sack
1460
01:34:14,083 --> 01:34:16,085
with no idea
how we was gonna get out.
1461
01:34:17,477 --> 01:34:19,044
That's what happened here.
1462
01:34:19,088 --> 01:34:22,918
Can somebody explain
this to me?
1463
01:34:23,875 --> 01:34:27,052
Can somebody explain this to me?
1464
01:34:28,314 --> 01:34:29,533
You tell me.
1465
01:34:31,230 --> 01:34:32,231
Hell, I think we all died
a little bit that day.
1466
01:34:32,275 --> 01:34:33,406
You tell me!
1467
01:34:34,799 --> 01:34:37,062
Mistakes were made.
This is probably one of 'em.
1468
01:34:37,672 --> 01:34:40,152
We went to see
General Hackmeyer at the VA.
1469
01:34:40,196 --> 01:34:41,893
He verifies your story, sir.
1470
01:34:42,198 --> 01:34:45,723
Senator, please,
it's my job to protect you.
1471
01:34:45,767 --> 01:34:48,465
-Protect me from what, Carl?
-From everything.
1472
01:34:52,774 --> 01:34:55,167
Usually we're judged
by what we do.
1473
01:34:57,039 --> 01:34:59,215
But I find
that what we don't do...
1474
01:34:59,955 --> 01:35:00,825
is what haunts us.
1475
01:35:02,131 --> 01:35:03,262
Here's the plan.
1476
01:35:04,829 --> 01:35:07,963
We're gonna roll the dice.
We're gonna go with the truth.
1477
01:35:09,268 --> 01:35:12,924
No matter how uncommon
or uncomfortable that may be.
1478
01:35:13,577 --> 01:35:17,842
Mr. Chairman,
I refer you to S2549,
1479
01:35:17,886 --> 01:35:22,368
Page 44, Title 5,
Military Personnel Policy,
1480
01:35:22,934 --> 01:35:26,024
-Subtitle E, Other Matters.
-Yes?
1481
01:35:26,068 --> 01:35:29,506
This amendment authorizes
a posthumous Medal of Honor
1482
01:35:29,549 --> 01:35:32,988
for Air Force Staff Sergeant
William H. Pitsenbarger...
1483
01:35:34,076 --> 01:35:37,340
for conspicuous gallantry
in action in Vietnam,
1484
01:35:37,383 --> 01:35:40,735
11 April 1966,
during Operation Abilene.
1485
01:35:40,778 --> 01:35:42,519
Mr. Chairman, point of order.
1486
01:35:43,172 --> 01:35:44,216
The chair recognizes
1487
01:35:45,609 --> 01:35:46,566
the distinguished gentleman
from North Carolina.
1488
01:35:48,177 --> 01:35:49,961
The rules of this committee
prohibit authorization language
1489
01:35:50,005 --> 01:35:52,398
to be included
in this Appropriations Bill.
1490
01:35:52,442 --> 01:35:53,660
Will the chair yield?
1491
01:35:53,704 --> 01:35:55,880
Chair apologizes
to the gentleman from Ohio,
1492
01:35:55,924 --> 01:35:57,577
but this committee
has much business
1493
01:35:57,621 --> 01:35:59,492
before it today
and so we must move on.
1494
01:35:59,536 --> 01:36:00,624
- Mr. Chairman,
1495
01:36:02,278 --> 01:36:03,105
-I sincerely appreciate that...
- Mr. Chairman.
1496
01:36:03,148 --> 01:36:04,846
...but it should be obvious
1497
01:36:04,889 --> 01:36:06,021
that there is absolutely nothing
in this amendment--
1498
01:36:06,064 --> 01:36:08,545
Uh, the Vietnam War was over
long ago.
1499
01:36:08,588 --> 01:36:11,504
-I know that, Bob. I was there.
-Maybe you should take a rest.
1500
01:36:12,636 --> 01:36:14,986
-Stop kicking that dead horse.
1501
01:36:15,030 --> 01:36:16,422
Gentlemen,
this is a point of order.
1502
01:36:16,466 --> 01:36:17,902
I'm sorry. We must move on.
1503
01:36:19,251 --> 01:36:21,253
The Chair recognizes
the lady from Florida.
1504
01:36:21,514 --> 01:36:23,255
Oh, yes,
thank you, Mr. Chairman.
1505
01:36:26,258 --> 01:36:28,043
Senator, what the hell happened
in there?
1506
01:36:28,086 --> 01:36:29,174
The distinguished gentleman
1507
01:36:29,218 --> 01:36:30,654
from North Carolina
shut us down.
1508
01:36:30,697 --> 01:36:32,743
-That's what the hell happened.
-Just like that?
1509
01:36:33,048 --> 01:36:34,658
Look, it's payback.
1510
01:36:34,701 --> 01:36:37,226
I harpooned a tobacco subsidy
at his last session.
1511
01:36:37,269 --> 01:36:39,532
Unfortunately,
he's ranking member,
1512
01:36:39,576 --> 01:36:41,447
so there's not a lot I can do
about it.
1513
01:36:42,231 --> 01:36:43,449
But I promise you,
1514
01:36:43,493 --> 01:36:46,583
I will get this
in next year's bill.
1515
01:36:46,844 --> 01:36:48,019
Hopefully by that time,
1516
01:36:48,063 --> 01:36:49,586
the distinguished gentleman
will be dead.
1517
01:36:49,629 --> 01:36:51,283
So will Pitsenbarger's father.
1518
01:36:51,327 --> 01:36:53,372
-What?
-He's dying, sir.
1519
01:36:55,244 --> 01:36:58,508
Ah, Jesus. I didn't know
about that. I'm sorry.
1520
01:36:59,291 --> 01:37:02,555
-I'm truly sorry.
1521
01:37:07,386 --> 01:37:08,692
So that's it?
1522
01:37:10,172 --> 01:37:11,695
Unless you got a
tobacco subsidy
1523
01:37:11,738 --> 01:37:14,480
to horse-trade with the senator
from North Carolina.
1524
01:37:15,742 --> 01:37:17,005
What about those men?
1525
01:37:19,398 --> 01:37:20,617
What about Pits?
1526
01:37:22,097 --> 01:37:24,447
Holt says he'll get it
on the bill next year.
1527
01:37:27,624 --> 01:37:28,799
And Frank?
1528
01:37:32,020 --> 01:37:34,500
I can't cure cancer, Tara.
1529
01:37:37,634 --> 01:37:40,637
If I push this any harder,
I really will end my career.
1530
01:37:47,339 --> 01:37:49,646
-It's interesting.
-What?
1531
01:37:50,908 --> 01:37:52,257
In 12 years,
1532
01:37:52,301 --> 01:37:55,478
I have never seen you
back off of anything.
1533
01:37:56,783 --> 01:37:57,872
I'm scared.
1534
01:38:08,099 --> 01:38:10,536
Fear is good.
1535
01:38:11,407 --> 01:38:13,496
Fear is a survival instinct.
1536
01:38:14,932 --> 01:38:17,326
You're supposed to be afraid.
1537
01:38:19,415 --> 01:38:20,633
Use it.
1538
01:38:30,513 --> 01:38:32,254
You turned down
a significant
1539
01:38:32,297 --> 01:38:34,299
career opportunity
to finish this.
1540
01:38:36,867 --> 01:38:39,391
You figure out
why four-star generals
1541
01:38:39,435 --> 01:38:41,002
and presidents
would trade legacies
1542
01:38:41,045 --> 01:38:42,351
for a medal?
1543
01:38:46,050 --> 01:38:48,444
Because they know
that guys like Pitsenbarger
1544
01:38:48,487 --> 01:38:50,228
don't do what they do for them.
1545
01:38:52,448 --> 01:38:53,840
They do it for each other.
1546
01:38:55,233 --> 01:38:56,582
A life for a life.
1547
01:38:57,714 --> 01:38:58,933
That's big stuff.
1548
01:39:02,153 --> 01:39:04,025
There are worse things
that can happen to a man
1549
01:39:04,329 --> 01:39:06,375
than getting killed in a war.
1550
01:39:06,636 --> 01:39:07,680
Like?
1551
01:39:07,942 --> 01:39:10,074
Like losing men,
1552
01:39:10,727 --> 01:39:11,946
losing a child,
1553
01:39:12,816 --> 01:39:13,817
a father...
1554
01:39:14,731 --> 01:39:16,080
having to live with that.
1555
01:39:18,387 --> 01:39:20,780
You think a piece of ribbon
is gonna change that?
1556
01:39:30,529 --> 01:39:32,140
I'm gonna go public
with the story.
1557
01:39:33,315 --> 01:39:34,403
I'm gonna name names.
1558
01:39:36,100 --> 01:39:37,623
Shaming Appropriations
1559
01:39:37,667 --> 01:39:39,408
in front
of the Washington press corps
1560
01:39:39,451 --> 01:39:41,671
on the eve
of a national election
1561
01:39:41,714 --> 01:39:44,369
sounds a little dangerous.
1562
01:39:44,413 --> 01:39:46,632
Yeah.
1563
01:39:47,938 --> 01:39:49,244
But it'll be great television.
1564
01:39:53,552 --> 01:39:54,466
Well done.
1565
01:39:55,424 --> 01:39:56,425
Thank you
1566
01:39:57,992 --> 01:39:59,341
- Mr. Huffman,
1567
01:39:59,384 --> 01:40:00,429
I'm Mary,
the supervising producer.
1568
01:40:00,472 --> 01:40:01,952
We're gonna put a wire on you.
1569
01:40:01,996 --> 01:40:03,736
-Okay.
-We have you on split screens,
1570
01:40:03,780 --> 01:40:05,303
so the anchors are gonna be able
to hear you,
1571
01:40:05,347 --> 01:40:07,044
but they're not gonna be able
to see you.
1572
01:40:07,088 --> 01:40:08,741
-Okay.
-All right, come with me.
1573
01:40:13,746 --> 01:40:15,183
Dad, are you nervous?
1574
01:40:16,140 --> 01:40:18,621
I am. But I'm not afraid.
1575
01:40:25,410 --> 01:40:26,629
All set.
1576
01:40:26,672 --> 01:40:28,196
In an unusual move today,
1577
01:40:28,239 --> 01:40:29,849
a member of the Department
of the Air Force,
1578
01:40:29,893 --> 01:40:31,547
a gentleman named
Scott Huffman,
1579
01:40:31,590 --> 01:40:33,027
went before cameras
1580
01:40:33,070 --> 01:40:35,594
to accuse high-ranking senators and their staffs
1581
01:40:35,638 --> 01:40:38,336
of playing political football
with military valor.
1582
01:40:38,380 --> 01:40:39,903
...long-awaited HR Defense
1583
01:40:39,946 --> 01:40:42,471
Appropriations Bill,
it stalled in the Senate
1584
01:40:42,514 --> 01:40:44,690
when a Pentagon staffer
accused lawmakers...
1585
01:40:44,734 --> 01:40:46,692
...the bill,
including a recommendation
1586
01:40:46,736 --> 01:40:50,261
for a posthumous Medal of Honor
for William H. Pitsenbarger
1587
01:40:50,305 --> 01:40:51,828
is now heading
to the Oval Office,
1588
01:40:51,871 --> 01:40:53,351
-and President Clinton...
1589
01:40:53,395 --> 01:40:55,049
...is expected to sign
that bill.
1590
01:41:04,014 --> 01:41:05,494
An airman
named Bill Pitsenbarger
1591
01:41:05,537 --> 01:41:07,757
will be awarded
the Medal of Honor today
1592
01:41:07,800 --> 01:41:09,324
for his service in Vietnam.
1593
01:41:09,367 --> 01:41:10,629
He gave his country
1594
01:41:10,673 --> 01:41:12,066
what Abraham Lincoln
once called,
1595
01:41:12,501 --> 01:41:14,720
-"The last full measure."
1596
01:41:24,295 --> 01:41:25,470
I'll be right back.
1597
01:41:37,308 --> 01:41:38,396
Hey.
1598
01:41:41,051 --> 01:41:42,531
It's good to see you, man.
1599
01:41:42,835 --> 01:41:44,098
It's good to be here.
1600
01:41:46,622 --> 01:41:48,754
So... ...the, uh...
1601
01:41:50,191 --> 01:41:51,714
lady in red, behind me...
1602
01:41:53,498 --> 01:41:54,934
she's, um...
1603
01:41:56,066 --> 01:41:57,937
the address on this letter.
1604
01:42:22,571 --> 01:42:25,400
Bill gave me this.
He asked me to give it to you.
1605
01:42:30,274 --> 01:42:31,971
I'm sorry it took so long.
1606
01:42:39,109 --> 01:42:40,154
Thank you.
1607
01:42:43,635 --> 01:42:44,636
Thank you.
1608
01:42:56,039 --> 01:42:59,303
Amid the gloom
and waste of war,
1609
01:42:59,912 --> 01:43:02,654
we occasionally witness
a brief but...
1610
01:43:03,742 --> 01:43:06,354
brilliant flash
of personal valor
1611
01:43:06,658 --> 01:43:10,271
so radiant it becomes impossible
to ignore.
1612
01:43:10,793 --> 01:43:15,232
Such is the heroism
of William Hart Pitsenbarger,
1613
01:43:15,276 --> 01:43:18,104
who was moved
by higher angels of duty,
1614
01:43:18,540 --> 01:43:20,846
courage and sacrifice
1615
01:43:20,890 --> 01:43:23,675
to make, on behalf of men
he did not know
1616
01:43:23,719 --> 01:43:26,765
and a nation that until now
did not know his story,
1617
01:43:26,809 --> 01:43:29,942
the most supreme sacrifice.
1618
01:43:31,553 --> 01:43:33,424
Frank, Alice...
1619
01:43:34,469 --> 01:43:37,515
on behalf of the President
of the United States of America,
1620
01:43:38,299 --> 01:43:41,693
in the name of Congress,
for conspicuous gallantry,
1621
01:43:42,216 --> 01:43:44,827
extreme valor and intrepidity,
1622
01:43:45,567 --> 01:43:47,221
at the risk of his own life,
1623
01:43:47,264 --> 01:43:49,832
above and beyond
the call of duty,
1624
01:43:50,528 --> 01:43:52,095
I award the Medal of Honor
1625
01:43:52,313 --> 01:43:56,491
to Airman First Class
William Hart Pitsenbarger.
1626
01:44:30,351 --> 01:44:33,832
Uh, now, this--
This isn't in your program,
1627
01:44:33,876 --> 01:44:37,314
but if you could give me
just a moment more of your time.
1628
01:44:39,621 --> 01:44:42,624
I'd like to recognize some guys
1629
01:44:43,538 --> 01:44:45,583
who are gonna hate me
for doing it.
1630
01:44:47,368 --> 01:44:48,804
Now, we have with us today
1631
01:44:48,847 --> 01:44:51,197
some of the veterans
of Operation Abilene,
1632
01:44:52,677 --> 01:44:56,290
Charlie Company,
second of the 16th Infantry.
1633
01:44:56,899 --> 01:44:58,901
Now, these men
were the witnesses
1634
01:44:58,944 --> 01:45:00,816
to Bill Pitsenbarger's heroism
1635
01:45:00,859 --> 01:45:05,864
and they've worked
and worked for 32 years...
1636
01:45:07,344 --> 01:45:08,998
to see this day come.
1637
01:45:13,219 --> 01:45:15,047
Would you honor us, please,
1638
01:45:15,570 --> 01:45:18,660
by standing
and being recognized?
1639
01:45:42,379 --> 01:45:44,338
And would the airmen
of Pits's unit,
1640
01:45:44,816 --> 01:45:47,428
the Aerospace Rescue
and Recovery Service,
1641
01:45:47,471 --> 01:45:49,255
also please stand?
1642
01:45:51,040 --> 01:45:55,697
And any other PJs
from Vietnam, would you rise?
1643
01:45:58,395 --> 01:46:01,050
If there are any other
US veterans here today,
1644
01:46:01,093 --> 01:46:02,530
will you please stand?
1645
01:46:07,186 --> 01:46:09,450
If there are wives
or parents here,
1646
01:46:09,493 --> 01:46:10,668
would you stand?
1647
01:46:14,455 --> 01:46:16,500
And any children
or grandchildren,
1648
01:46:16,544 --> 01:46:17,719
would you join us?
1649
01:46:19,460 --> 01:46:21,418
And any other friends or family,
1650
01:46:21,462 --> 01:46:25,117
anyone who has been touched
or moved in any way
1651
01:46:25,161 --> 01:46:28,599
by the actions of this Medal
of Honor recipient,
1652
01:46:28,643 --> 01:46:31,254
would you also stand?
1653
01:46:39,436 --> 01:46:40,437
Look around.
1654
01:46:42,396 --> 01:46:47,444
This is the power
of what one person can do.
1655
01:47:50,159 --> 01:47:51,290
Thank you, son.
1656
01:48:00,691 --> 01:48:02,084
So you don't forget us.
1657
01:48:04,521 --> 01:48:05,653
Thank you.
1658
01:48:27,457 --> 01:48:29,111
-Daddy!
1659
01:48:29,677 --> 01:48:30,678
Hey, little man.
1660
01:48:31,940 --> 01:48:33,419
- I'm glad we got to come.
-Ah, me too.
1661
01:48:34,333 --> 01:48:35,596
Where's your mom?
1662
01:48:38,990 --> 01:48:40,601
Looking good
in that uniform, Jimmy.
1663
01:48:43,125 --> 01:48:44,474
This is my son, Luke.
1664
01:48:46,345 --> 01:48:48,478
-Nice to meet you, soldier.
1665
01:48:51,437 --> 01:48:52,743
I wanted to say...
1666
01:48:54,963 --> 01:48:56,486
I wanted to say thank you.
1667
01:48:59,315 --> 01:49:00,838
Understand what I'm saying, sir?
1668
01:49:02,405 --> 01:49:03,537
You're welcome, Jimmy.
1669
01:49:05,756 --> 01:49:07,976
But you really don't have
to call me sir.
1670
01:49:09,281 --> 01:49:10,282
Sure I do.
1671
01:49:11,457 --> 01:49:12,546
Why's that?
1672
01:49:14,852 --> 01:49:16,245
You earned it, sir.
1673
01:49:18,116 --> 01:49:21,859
Ah, you take care, now,
'cause it's a jungle out there.
1674
01:49:35,656 --> 01:49:36,700
What's your name?
1675
01:49:37,396 --> 01:49:39,268
-Luke.
- I'm Tommy.
1676
01:49:42,358 --> 01:49:44,621
Early on, you said...
1677
01:49:45,796 --> 01:49:47,624
there was nothing in this
for you.
1678
01:51:51,139 --> 01:51:53,271
On April 11, 1966,
1679
01:51:53,315 --> 01:51:54,838
when we took off
on that mission...
1680
01:51:56,144 --> 01:51:57,232
Pits made a statement.
1681
01:51:57,275 --> 01:51:58,712
He got on the hot mic
and he said,
1682
01:51:59,495 --> 01:52:00,626
"Boy, Captain," he said,
1683
01:52:00,670 --> 01:52:02,193
"I don't feel good
about this mission."
1684
01:52:02,672 --> 01:52:05,153
They were prepared for us,
they knew we were coming.
1685
01:52:05,196 --> 01:52:09,766
They were in, uh, ground holes,
in trees and on the ground,
1686
01:52:09,810 --> 01:52:11,420
and, uh, as we walked,
1687
01:52:11,463 --> 01:52:13,509
they just simply closed
the back door.
1688
01:52:15,903 --> 01:52:17,861
So they started calling us
1689
01:52:17,905 --> 01:52:19,471
to help them get out
the wounded.
1690
01:52:19,515 --> 01:52:21,386
And Pits said, "Let me--
Put me on the ground,
1691
01:52:21,430 --> 01:52:23,258
I can organize
this much better."
1692
01:52:23,562 --> 01:52:25,129
I said,
"I don't wanna lose you, Pits.
1693
01:52:25,826 --> 01:52:27,784
And it's hotter than hell
down there because the war
1694
01:52:27,828 --> 01:52:29,786
and the firefights going on
all the time.
1695
01:52:29,830 --> 01:52:30,787
You can hear the stuff."
1696
01:52:31,309 --> 01:52:32,310
So down he went.
1697
01:52:33,790 --> 01:52:35,618
My initial thought on seeing him
rappelling out of, uh,
1698
01:52:35,661 --> 01:52:37,533
uh, coming out
of the helicopter, I'm thinking,
1699
01:52:37,576 --> 01:52:38,926
"What in the hell
is this guy thinking
1700
01:52:38,969 --> 01:52:40,231
coming down here?"
1701
01:52:41,798 --> 01:52:43,017
There's not a one of us
1702
01:52:43,060 --> 01:52:44,714
that wouldn't have left there
if we could.
1703
01:52:44,758 --> 01:52:45,933
And the only guy
that could leave
1704
01:52:45,976 --> 01:52:47,456
was Pitsenbarger, and he didn't.
1705
01:52:48,022 --> 01:52:50,851
Marty Kroah was on the ground
and he sent for me,
1706
01:52:51,373 --> 01:52:52,374
because, um...
1707
01:52:53,810 --> 01:52:56,421
he said, "I want somebody
to know what Pits did,
1708
01:52:56,857 --> 01:52:59,076
so that it gets reported back,
in case I die."
1709
01:52:59,424 --> 01:53:01,775
At that time
Marty had been shot five times.
1710
01:53:02,166 --> 01:53:03,951
When we found out
the next morning...
1711
01:53:04,908 --> 01:53:06,997
that he had been killed,
it was just...
1712
01:53:13,395 --> 01:53:15,092
It was a sad time for everybody.
1713
01:53:18,792 --> 01:53:20,750
To me, uh, this is one
of the most,
1714
01:53:21,316 --> 01:53:23,971
uh, important things I did
as Secretary of the Air Force.
1715
01:53:24,014 --> 01:53:26,060
Well, it should have been
handled by itself.
1716
01:53:26,103 --> 01:53:27,452
It was just a fundamental wrong.
1717
01:53:27,713 --> 01:53:28,976
It was wrong
to Bill Pitsenbarger,
1718
01:53:29,019 --> 01:53:29,933
it was wrong to his family.
1719
01:53:31,108 --> 01:53:32,153
Wrong to the airmen
who supported him.
1720
01:53:32,457 --> 01:53:33,545
When you think about it,
1721
01:53:33,589 --> 01:53:35,591
uh, it is extraordinary
to have people
1722
01:53:35,634 --> 01:53:38,289
who worked for 30 years
to get this done.
1723
01:53:38,724 --> 01:53:40,857
I mean, these are people
who had their own lives,
1724
01:53:40,901 --> 01:53:42,859
wives, children, grandchildren,
1725
01:53:43,207 --> 01:53:44,861
and this was a passion for them,
1726
01:53:44,905 --> 01:53:46,645
and I just thought
that was extraordinary.
1727
01:53:46,950 --> 01:53:50,562
And I just-- I felt--
And-- And I owed it to Pits,
1728
01:53:50,911 --> 01:53:53,087
and I wouldn't--
And not just myself,
1729
01:53:53,130 --> 01:53:54,740
there's other people
who feel the same way,
1730
01:53:55,089 --> 01:53:57,961
basically, our whole crew.
We owe it to him.
1731
01:53:59,963 --> 01:54:02,400
Bill's blood is mixed
with ours forever.
1732
01:54:02,444 --> 01:54:04,054
He-- He is our brother.
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