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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
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and we are totally stuck
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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,
239
00:16:29,089 --> 00:16:32,123
it's keeping awake
long enough to enjoy it.
240
00:16:35,429 --> 00:16:36,796
- Oh, thank you.
- Well...
241
00:16:36,798 --> 00:16:37,797
Thank you.
242
00:16:37,799 --> 00:16:42,135
- So, you're the new one.
- The new one?
243
00:16:42,770 --> 00:16:45,638
If you want the real story
about Abilene,
244
00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:47,609
you'll need to talk
to the mud soldiers.
245
00:16:48,375 --> 00:16:49,742
And they are?
246
00:16:49,744 --> 00:16:52,346
You do work in the
Department of Defense, right?
247
00:16:55,617 --> 00:16:57,652
They're the army guys
on the ground.
248
00:16:58,352 --> 00:17:02,122
Charlie Company, 16th Infantry,
the Big Red One.
249
00:17:03,190 --> 00:17:04,724
Well, as far
as they're concerned, you see,
250
00:17:04,726 --> 00:17:06,493
it wasn't Bill's fight.
251
00:17:06,794 --> 00:17:08,161
Bill was Air Force.
252
00:17:08,763 --> 00:17:11,597
Charlie Company took
80 percent casualties.
253
00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:15,168
That's 34 KIAs in the same day.
254
00:17:15,603 --> 00:17:17,404
Bill was a part of it,
of course,
255
00:17:18,138 --> 00:17:20,073
but he wasn't one of them.
256
00:17:20,575 --> 00:17:21,743
We have to respect that.
257
00:17:22,442 --> 00:17:25,112
- All right.
- Now, Billy Takoda
258
00:17:25,312 --> 00:17:28,179
lives, uh,
over in Sterling County.
259
00:17:28,181 --> 00:17:30,484
That's about an hour's drive
from here.
260
00:17:31,418 --> 00:17:32,752
Over the years the wives
261
00:17:32,754 --> 00:17:34,656
have tracked down most
of the guys.
262
00:17:35,455 --> 00:17:37,057
You might want to start
with them.
263
00:17:37,391 --> 00:17:41,361
And this Billy guy, is he, uh...
264
00:17:41,729 --> 00:17:43,330
Will he talk to me?
Is he all right?
265
00:17:44,699 --> 00:17:46,433
The two of you
should get along fine.
266
00:18:13,861 --> 00:18:15,763
Hello!
267
00:18:17,164 --> 00:18:18,766
What the hell
are you yelling for?
268
00:18:21,201 --> 00:18:22,135
Jesus.
269
00:18:28,375 --> 00:18:31,478
Billy Takoda.
Not an easy guy to find.
270
00:18:31,846 --> 00:18:33,713
Y'all be careful
down there, you hear?
271
00:18:33,715 --> 00:18:35,683
Jeremy, stay out that water.
272
00:18:38,586 --> 00:18:39,520
So what's your story?
273
00:18:41,455 --> 00:18:42,624
Why are you here?
274
00:18:42,924 --> 00:18:46,324
Well, I appreciate
what you've been through.
275
00:18:46,326 --> 00:18:47,629
Uh, I'm here to help.
276
00:18:48,428 --> 00:18:50,362
If you wanted to help,
you'd pick up a weapon
277
00:18:50,364 --> 00:18:52,132
and get some skin
in the game, friend.
278
00:18:52,634 --> 00:18:53,933
You'd acknowledge
you own a piece
279
00:18:53,935 --> 00:18:54,836
of every bomb dropped
280
00:18:55,770 --> 00:18:56,301
and every bullet fired
in every skirmish
281
00:18:56,303 --> 00:18:57,705
since you been born,
282
00:18:58,806 --> 00:19:00,440
that you have blood
on your hands, you understand?
283
00:19:01,341 --> 00:19:02,242
Second chance.
284
00:19:02,810 --> 00:19:05,278
Why are you here?
285
00:19:07,982 --> 00:19:09,216
It's my job.
286
00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:12,820
- I don't have a choice.
- See? That's progress.
287
00:19:13,286 --> 00:19:16,858
Vulnerability and communication.
Honesty builds trust.
288
00:19:17,759 --> 00:19:20,260
That's the only real currency
we got left in this world.
289
00:19:21,996 --> 00:19:23,497
Now you can trust me?
290
00:19:24,732 --> 00:19:25,667
No.
291
00:19:28,235 --> 00:19:30,437
You mind if I, um...
292
00:19:33,574 --> 00:19:36,343
I'm here so I can...
293
00:19:37,411 --> 00:19:38,713
hear your side of the story.
294
00:19:42,984 --> 00:19:45,419
I talk, you listen.
295
00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,228
Vietnam
wasn't my first square dance.
296
00:19:55,997 --> 00:19:59,734
I was a dog-faced lifer,
a natural war fighter.
297
00:20:00,835 --> 00:20:01,969
I loved it.
298
00:20:03,037 --> 00:20:05,740
Nothing made me feel more alive.
299
00:20:07,742 --> 00:20:10,310
But I'd never seen nothing
like Abilene.
300
00:20:12,379 --> 00:20:13,815
Lost men like that.
301
00:20:22,790 --> 00:20:24,291
Medic!
302
00:20:24,491 --> 00:20:26,861
Medic! Medic!
303
00:20:32,332 --> 00:20:33,699
Goddammit Kepper, you all right?
304
00:20:34,969 --> 00:20:36,738
Contact, Victor Charlie.
305
00:20:37,304 --> 00:20:38,405
I'm hit.
306
00:20:38,973 --> 00:20:41,073
We have wounded
and we are taking fire.
307
00:20:41,075 --> 00:20:43,010
Oh, fuck!
308
00:20:43,911 --> 00:20:46,279
They have mortars
and automatic weapons now.
309
00:20:48,750 --> 00:20:50,551
It's an ambush.
310
00:20:54,856 --> 00:20:58,626
Pitsenbarger,
where did he fit in all this?
311
00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:00,828
Well, I lost my medic.
312
00:21:01,829 --> 00:21:03,296
We had no LZ, so...
313
00:21:04,331 --> 00:21:05,998
they called
in the Air Force helos.
314
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,933
Pedros, Pedros, Charlie Six.
315
00:21:07,935 --> 00:21:10,836
Be advised,
we're in a tight one down here.
316
00:21:10,838 --> 00:21:13,371
Multiple casualties.
We need you soonest.
317
00:21:13,373 --> 00:21:14,575
Contact, one o'clock.
318
00:21:15,843 --> 00:21:17,377
Advise when you've
got us in sight. Over.
319
00:21:21,649 --> 00:21:24,415
Copy, Charlie Six.
Pedros has your smoke.
320
00:21:24,417 --> 00:21:27,922
Pits came down,
saved lives, evac'ed wounded,
321
00:21:28,656 --> 00:21:31,424
died fighting alongside men
he never even knew.
322
00:21:33,027 --> 00:21:35,663
Get down, airman!
Get down!
323
00:21:35,963 --> 00:21:39,366
Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Slow it down.
324
00:21:39,634 --> 00:21:42,369
Nothing but your man
into the basket.
325
00:21:42,603 --> 00:21:44,839
Okay, now, you.
326
00:21:45,973 --> 00:21:48,107
Okay? Hold these.
327
00:21:50,578 --> 00:21:53,145
- Nice and easy, now.
- One, two, three.
328
00:21:56,383 --> 00:21:57,785
All right, hang tight,
buddy.
329
00:21:58,052 --> 00:21:59,450
I'm gonna need you
to do something
330
00:21:59,452 --> 00:22:00,420
for me, all right?
331
00:22:01,488 --> 00:22:02,453
I need you to keep the pressure
on it, all right?
332
00:22:02,455 --> 00:22:04,790
All the way up you keep
that pressure on it.
333
00:22:04,792 --> 00:22:07,460
All right, you're going home.
All right.
334
00:22:08,395 --> 00:22:10,798
Okay. Take her up.
335
00:22:13,601 --> 00:22:15,570
All right, hang tight, bud.
336
00:22:15,903 --> 00:22:17,136
Hold the line.
Hold the line.
337
00:22:17,138 --> 00:22:19,470
- Come on.
- What's the story, Lieutenant?
338
00:22:19,472 --> 00:22:21,173
We've got a 100-meter perimeter.
339
00:22:21,175 --> 00:22:22,977
We're taking fire
from everywhere.
340
00:22:23,410 --> 00:22:26,681
We've got two KIAs and at least
eight wounded that I know of.
341
00:22:27,447 --> 00:22:29,548
All right, I'm gonna need two
of your guys.
342
00:22:29,550 --> 00:22:30,785
It's your show, airman.
343
00:22:32,485 --> 00:22:33,486
Mott!
344
00:22:34,555 --> 00:22:36,691
Tulley says this whole
medal thing was your idea.
345
00:22:36,924 --> 00:22:37,859
Is that true?
346
00:22:38,425 --> 00:22:39,758
I made out the paperwork,
347
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,863
sent it up the Air Force chain,
that's all.
348
00:22:43,564 --> 00:22:45,498
- But he never got the medal.
- Mm.
349
00:22:46,433 --> 00:22:47,768
Not the big daddy, no.
350
00:22:48,870 --> 00:22:49,770
Why not?
351
00:22:52,506 --> 00:22:53,307
It was war.
352
00:22:54,976 --> 00:22:56,611
Pits wasn't the onlys one,
you know.
353
00:22:58,112 --> 00:23:00,478
I must have wrote
over a dozen letters
354
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,482
to parents and girlfriends.
355
00:23:03,885 --> 00:23:06,687
After that, all you can do
is make amends...
356
00:23:08,122 --> 00:23:09,389
and try to forget.
357
00:23:10,825 --> 00:23:11,826
How do you do that?
358
00:23:12,727 --> 00:23:15,696
Like I said,
get some bark in the game.
359
00:23:16,496 --> 00:23:18,165
You went...
You went back to Vietnam?
360
00:23:19,967 --> 00:23:21,934
I didn't understand
the world anymore
361
00:23:21,936 --> 00:23:23,669
and the world sure as hell
didn't understand me,
362
00:23:23,671 --> 00:23:25,405
so where the hell else
was I gonna go?
363
00:23:27,141 --> 00:23:28,809
Well, after I got healed up,
364
00:23:29,677 --> 00:23:31,777
this old high-school buddy
of mine called
365
00:23:31,779 --> 00:23:33,446
and invited me for beers.
366
00:23:34,481 --> 00:23:35,981
So, I met him
at this social club
367
00:23:35,983 --> 00:23:37,417
over in Eddystone.
368
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,887
There was a sign outside
this shithole that said,
369
00:23:41,889 --> 00:23:44,457
"No dogs or baby killers."
370
00:23:45,793 --> 00:23:46,861
I let it slide.
371
00:23:48,095 --> 00:23:49,494
We sitting at the bar
372
00:23:49,496 --> 00:23:51,130
and he's shooting the shit
about girls
373
00:23:51,132 --> 00:23:53,935
and how we used to raise hell
back in the day.
374
00:23:56,170 --> 00:23:58,172
The more he talked,
the more I realized...
375
00:23:59,206 --> 00:24:01,776
there wasn't nothing hitting,
you know?
376
00:24:02,944 --> 00:24:05,577
Then he blurts out, "I hear
you got the Purple Heart.
377
00:24:05,579 --> 00:24:06,948
What happened? You get shot?"
378
00:24:09,183 --> 00:24:10,685
It gets real quiet.
379
00:24:12,286 --> 00:24:15,823
All these drunk assholes
just staring at me.
380
00:24:18,092 --> 00:24:19,694
Alls I can hear is...
381
00:24:20,628 --> 00:24:22,730
screams from the jungle
that day and...
382
00:24:24,799 --> 00:24:26,534
artillery whistle in the air.
383
00:24:27,301 --> 00:24:28,836
And I started to get pissed.
384
00:24:30,638 --> 00:24:33,975
So I pull my shirt up...
385
00:24:35,309 --> 00:24:36,644
...just to shut him up.
386
00:24:37,712 --> 00:24:39,144
He looks kind of awkward
387
00:24:39,146 --> 00:24:41,615
and then he starts chuckling
and says,
388
00:24:42,750 --> 00:24:44,518
"What was you doing,
running away?"
389
00:24:47,722 --> 00:24:49,123
You know what? Maybe I was.
390
00:24:50,791 --> 00:24:52,960
Maybe that's what I've
been doing all this time.
391
00:24:55,663 --> 00:24:56,731
Tell you what, though.
392
00:24:58,566 --> 00:25:00,267
I tore that place down, brother.
393
00:25:01,302 --> 00:25:04,138
I mean, to the splinters.
394
00:25:05,806 --> 00:25:09,210
That floor was blood, teeth,
and peanut shells,
395
00:25:09,877 --> 00:25:11,178
wasn't none of it mine.
396
00:25:13,247 --> 00:25:14,181
Cops came.
397
00:25:15,049 --> 00:25:16,784
They seen the sign outside.
398
00:25:17,718 --> 00:25:19,186
They called me a livery.
399
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:20,955
They got it.
400
00:25:21,922 --> 00:25:23,124
Sent me on my way.
401
00:25:26,694 --> 00:25:28,694
I knocked around for a couple
of months,
402
00:25:28,696 --> 00:25:30,896
but nothing seemed to click.
403
00:25:30,898 --> 00:25:32,933
You know, nothing stuck,
you know.
404
00:25:37,304 --> 00:25:39,171
I was a refugee
in my own country,
405
00:25:39,173 --> 00:25:41,742
and that hurt way more
than those bullets.
406
00:25:46,714 --> 00:25:47,815
How could I stay?
407
00:25:50,684 --> 00:25:52,586
Does it still hurt, Grandpa?
408
00:25:54,822 --> 00:25:57,091
Only on the inside, baby boy.
409
00:25:58,759 --> 00:25:59,593
Come on, kids, time to eat.
410
00:26:00,961 --> 00:26:03,230
Honey, think this gumbo's
about ready.
411
00:26:04,198 --> 00:26:06,333
I'm gonna need you to get
on the record.
412
00:26:07,234 --> 00:26:09,603
That's about as on the record
as you're gonna get.
413
00:26:41,669 --> 00:26:42,670
Hey.
414
00:26:45,306 --> 00:26:46,972
Donna Burr? Hi.
415
00:26:46,974 --> 00:26:48,876
Hey, man, he doesn't even get up
till eight o'clock.
416
00:26:49,410 --> 00:26:51,278
Oh, uh, I'm sorry.
417
00:26:52,113 --> 00:26:53,914
Scott Huffman, DOD.
418
00:26:56,951 --> 00:26:59,820
- He... He works nights?
- Jimmy's PTS.
419
00:27:00,955 --> 00:27:02,022
He's OCD.
420
00:27:02,323 --> 00:27:03,856
He suffers hallucinations
421
00:27:03,858 --> 00:27:06,093
and about
50 other war-related effects.
422
00:27:06,861 --> 00:27:08,193
He sleeps during the day
423
00:27:08,195 --> 00:27:10,297
because the night
just plain terrifies him.
424
00:27:12,333 --> 00:27:15,200
Do you even know
any Vietnam vets?
425
00:27:15,202 --> 00:27:18,105
No.
It's a new experience for me.
426
00:27:21,208 --> 00:27:22,343
How did you two meet?
427
00:27:23,410 --> 00:27:25,412
You mean, what do I see
in a Section 8 like Jimmy?
428
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,649
No, not at all, ma'am.
I'm... I'm just...
429
00:27:28,883 --> 00:27:29,984
I was his nurse...
430
00:27:31,051 --> 00:27:32,086
at the VA.
431
00:27:34,021 --> 00:27:35,320
You can learn a lot
about these guys
432
00:27:35,322 --> 00:27:36,488
hanging with them.
433
00:27:36,490 --> 00:27:38,292
What they did, what it cost.
434
00:27:38,859 --> 00:27:40,893
And every day he finds
the courage
435
00:27:40,895 --> 00:27:42,396
not to stick a gun in his mouth.
436
00:27:43,731 --> 00:27:45,933
So I think he deserves
a little compassion,
437
00:27:46,333 --> 00:27:48,969
and, believe me,
I get a lot more than I give.
438
00:27:49,303 --> 00:27:51,805
So if he wants to sleep
during the day...
439
00:27:52,773 --> 00:27:53,941
that's okay with me.
440
00:27:55,009 --> 00:27:57,278
So I saw Frank Pitsenbarger,
441
00:27:58,345 --> 00:28:01,048
and, uh, he told me
you have a contact list
442
00:28:01,315 --> 00:28:03,350
for all the Charlie Company guys
that you've put together.
443
00:28:03,784 --> 00:28:05,217
So that's what you want?
444
00:28:05,219 --> 00:28:07,821
Well... no, I...
445
00:28:08,923 --> 00:28:10,758
I'd love to talk
to your husband, too.
446
00:28:11,859 --> 00:28:13,761
I hope you're sincere
about this,
447
00:28:14,128 --> 00:28:16,363
'cause Jimmy is tougher
than a two-dollar steak
448
00:28:16,864 --> 00:28:20,132
and he can smell a rat
a mile upwind.
449
00:28:20,134 --> 00:28:21,833
Well, I don't have
a position here
450
00:28:21,835 --> 00:28:23,137
or an opinion. I'm...
451
00:28:30,377 --> 00:28:31,979
Here's your list.
452
00:28:32,446 --> 00:28:33,447
Thank you.
453
00:28:34,481 --> 00:28:35,983
You wanna talk to Jimmy,
you're gonna have to wait.
454
00:28:36,217 --> 00:28:37,451
I'm not making any promises.
455
00:28:37,952 --> 00:28:39,386
Thank you.
456
00:28:55,537 --> 00:28:56,870
Hey.
457
00:28:57,438 --> 00:28:58,504
Sleeping on post
458
00:28:58,506 --> 00:29:00,140
would get you fragged
in my unit.
459
00:29:01,008 --> 00:29:02,443
Know what I'm saying, sir?
460
00:29:05,179 --> 00:29:08,180
People round here think
I'm a goddamn vampire.
461
00:29:08,182 --> 00:29:09,250
Maybe they're right too,
462
00:29:10,251 --> 00:29:13,120
'cause I ain't slept in the dark
for 32 years.
463
00:29:13,420 --> 00:29:14,822
You know what I'm saying, sir?
464
00:29:16,156 --> 00:29:17,324
You know what that is?
465
00:29:19,293 --> 00:29:20,094
Yes.
466
00:29:22,129 --> 00:29:24,932
- No. No, I... I don't.
- Yeah.
467
00:29:25,567 --> 00:29:28,936
Big Red One.
First Infantry Division.
468
00:29:29,203 --> 00:29:31,939
Baddest goddamn GIs ever laced
a boot.
469
00:29:32,607 --> 00:29:33,807
Is that loaded?
470
00:29:38,178 --> 00:29:40,347
You know what you call
a gun that ain't loaded?
471
00:29:40,615 --> 00:29:42,550
A fucking stick, sir.
472
00:29:43,917 --> 00:29:46,220
You know what, Jimmy?
Uh, ca... Can I...
473
00:29:47,087 --> 00:29:48,155
Can I call you Jimmy?
474
00:29:50,124 --> 00:29:51,292
I'm a civilian, so...
475
00:29:52,893 --> 00:29:55,362
- you don't have to call me sir.
- The only reason I'm talking
476
00:29:55,563 --> 00:29:58,499
and not shooting
is 'cause of Tulley.
477
00:29:59,366 --> 00:30:01,634
He said this is all about Pits
getting the medal.
478
00:30:01,636 --> 00:30:04,504
- Ain't that right?
- Right. Absolutely.
479
00:30:04,506 --> 00:30:06,574
'Cause I don't give a shit
about you.
480
00:30:07,007 --> 00:30:08,809
I don't give a shit
about anything.
481
00:30:09,043 --> 00:30:11,143
I just wanna be
left goddamn alone.
482
00:30:11,145 --> 00:30:12,612
You understand what I'm saying?
483
00:30:12,614 --> 00:30:14,982
I mean, I've been fucked over
and fucked around.
484
00:30:15,215 --> 00:30:17,583
Nobody knows what went down
with me over there.
485
00:30:17,585 --> 00:30:19,019
Nobody knows.
486
00:30:21,021 --> 00:30:23,023
You understand
what I'm saying, sir?
487
00:30:25,527 --> 00:30:26,594
Listen, man, I...
488
00:30:26,994 --> 00:30:28,362
I didn't come here
to get shot at,
489
00:30:28,996 --> 00:30:31,231
or to rattle your cage.
I'm just...
490
00:30:32,266 --> 00:30:33,398
I'm just here
because Tulley said
491
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,604
your statement was important,
as did Mr. Pitsenbarger.
492
00:30:39,473 --> 00:30:42,142
I was the oldest FNG
they'd ever seen.
493
00:30:43,410 --> 00:30:46,046
Germany, Guam...
494
00:30:47,481 --> 00:30:49,183
goddamn Okinawa.
495
00:30:50,951 --> 00:30:53,921
Ten years and I never
squeezed off one round.
496
00:30:55,322 --> 00:30:56,990
Understand what I'm saying, sir?
497
00:30:57,391 --> 00:30:59,226
FNG? What is... What is that?
498
00:30:59,993 --> 00:31:01,161
Fucking New Guy.
499
00:31:02,463 --> 00:31:04,298
Lower than tits on a snake.
500
00:31:05,199 --> 00:31:07,301
FNGs got people killed.
501
00:31:08,102 --> 00:31:09,870
All them years waiting.
502
00:31:10,505 --> 00:31:13,941
Come Easter of '66,
I'm in goddamn Vietnam.
503
00:31:14,341 --> 00:31:16,210
I mean, I signed up
for this shit.
504
00:31:17,211 --> 00:31:19,545
Thirty-three years old
and I was gung-ho
505
00:31:19,547 --> 00:31:21,181
and ready to kill something.
506
00:31:21,448 --> 00:31:23,651
Hey, Ray, you're short, right?
507
00:31:24,586 --> 00:31:26,652
Thirty-two days
and I'll be swimming in Schlitz
508
00:31:26,654 --> 00:31:28,088
unless you get me killed.
509
00:31:29,390 --> 00:31:31,490
How long did it take you
to grease your first dink?
510
00:31:31,492 --> 00:31:33,894
- Understand what I'm saying?
- Get off my back.
511
00:31:34,194 --> 00:31:35,062
What's your problem, man?
512
00:31:35,697 --> 00:31:37,398
You trying
to get each other killed? Hmm?
513
00:31:38,298 --> 00:31:39,634
Man, get the hell away from him.
514
00:31:41,569 --> 00:31:42,903
Now, you know better, Ray.
515
00:31:43,571 --> 00:31:44,905
Keep your eyes open, man.
516
00:32:07,194 --> 00:32:09,631
- Go, go, go!
- Charlie! Get down!
517
00:32:11,331 --> 00:32:14,134
Get down, get down!
518
00:32:22,777 --> 00:32:23,776
What we got?
519
00:32:23,778 --> 00:32:26,947
- There was three of them.
- I... I got one.
520
00:32:27,147 --> 00:32:29,183
I got one.
521
00:32:37,725 --> 00:32:39,293
Holy shit.
522
00:32:41,261 --> 00:32:42,664
Nice shot.
523
00:32:43,163 --> 00:32:44,530
Charlie Six, Charlie Three.
524
00:32:44,532 --> 00:32:45,567
Jesus Christ.
525
00:32:47,635 --> 00:32:48,570
Charlie Six.
526
00:32:49,938 --> 00:32:50,603
Lieutenant, what
the hell is going on up there?
527
00:32:50,605 --> 00:32:52,540
FNG bust his cherry is all.
528
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,341
Copy that.
Anything else?
529
00:32:55,175 --> 00:32:56,711
- Negative.
-
Roger that.
530
00:32:57,110 --> 00:32:58,145
Charlie Three out.
531
00:33:00,380 --> 00:33:02,182
Kep, check him for intel.
532
00:33:02,717 --> 00:33:04,552
Then shove a couple
of grenades up under him.
533
00:33:05,486 --> 00:33:07,154
Anybody comes for him,
we'll know.
534
00:33:14,361 --> 00:33:15,329
FNG.
535
00:33:15,663 --> 00:33:17,064
Welcome to 'Nam, Jimmy.
536
00:33:17,765 --> 00:33:19,266
Come on, I got you.
537
00:33:22,402 --> 00:33:24,606
I ain't never seen
nobody die before.
538
00:33:25,773 --> 00:33:27,138
That little matter sucked
539
00:33:27,140 --> 00:33:29,009
all the whoop-ass right out
of me.
540
00:33:29,644 --> 00:33:31,278
Understand what I'm saying, sir?
541
00:33:33,213 --> 00:33:37,484
I felt real bad about that
for exactly 12 hours.
542
00:33:39,353 --> 00:33:41,388
And then I didn't feel bad
about nothing.
543
00:33:54,434 --> 00:33:55,737
Thought this was going
to the bottom of the pile.
544
00:33:56,403 --> 00:33:57,605
We are the bottom of the pile.
545
00:33:58,740 --> 00:34:00,775
Some guy named Ray Mott called,
said he was confirming.
546
00:34:01,208 --> 00:34:03,778
Today's adventures
in post-traumatic exorcism.
547
00:34:04,344 --> 00:34:05,647
Hopefully he won't have a gun.
548
00:34:06,346 --> 00:34:08,213
Sit down and walk me
through the requirements
549
00:34:08,215 --> 00:34:10,117
for a congressional
decorations package.
550
00:34:10,518 --> 00:34:12,787
- New eyewitness statements.
- Okay, we're doing that.
551
00:34:13,353 --> 00:34:14,820
DOD report of casualty.
552
00:34:14,822 --> 00:34:16,856
Well, he's definitely dead.
So that's two.
553
00:34:16,858 --> 00:34:18,490
And chain
of command endorsements.
554
00:34:18,492 --> 00:34:20,193
Bingo. Where are they?
555
00:34:20,695 --> 00:34:23,798
Because some guy named Kepper
556
00:34:24,599 --> 00:34:26,701
wrote the after-action report
and passed it up.
557
00:34:27,301 --> 00:34:28,268
It would have
to have been approved
558
00:34:29,269 --> 00:34:31,771
from Bien Hoa, Saigon,
to here at the Pentagon.
559
00:34:31,773 --> 00:34:34,576
- That would have been protocol.
- Right, so where is it?
560
00:34:35,510 --> 00:34:37,442
Well, a lot can get lost
in 32 years.
561
00:34:37,444 --> 00:34:39,179
This is the government
we're talking about.
562
00:34:39,379 --> 00:34:41,614
Well, if I can't find the chain
of command endorsements,
563
00:34:41,616 --> 00:34:44,619
this thing's DOA. I'm out of it.
564
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:46,654
Why not ask Kepper?
565
00:34:47,220 --> 00:34:49,220
Because he's living
in Nha Trang,
566
00:34:49,222 --> 00:34:51,626
which is in Vietnam,
and that's 11 time zones away.
567
00:34:51,926 --> 00:34:54,696
There is this new invention
called the telephone.
568
00:34:55,228 --> 00:34:57,565
Look, apparently this guy
is some Kurtzian burnout
569
00:34:57,932 --> 00:35:00,398
smoking ganja
under the Bodhi tree.
570
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:01,836
I'm not going there.
571
00:35:02,269 --> 00:35:04,104
- Is that the budget top sheet?
- Yeah.
572
00:35:05,807 --> 00:35:07,809
All right.
I'll call you from the road.
573
00:35:12,513 --> 00:35:15,213
I come out here,
knock out a box or two,
574
00:35:15,215 --> 00:35:17,117
check my targets,
pick up my brass.
575
00:35:17,685 --> 00:35:19,486
Keeps me civil with the kids.
576
00:35:24,692 --> 00:35:26,291
Hear you went
577
00:35:26,293 --> 00:35:28,894
- to see Jimmy Burr.
- Yeah.
578
00:35:28,896 --> 00:35:30,963
He kills things
to relieve stress.
579
00:35:30,965 --> 00:35:32,900
Flower box, 75 meters.
580
00:35:36,269 --> 00:35:37,335
You know, he's got a bullet
in his head still.
581
00:35:37,337 --> 00:35:40,271
It didn't kill him,
so they slammed him into VA,
582
00:35:40,273 --> 00:35:41,941
doped him up for about 20 years.
583
00:35:41,943 --> 00:35:43,511
Can't imagine why.
584
00:35:52,553 --> 00:35:54,321
It's a hell of a thing,
you know,
585
00:35:54,989 --> 00:35:57,925
to have somebody die
so you can pop melons and...
586
00:35:58,926 --> 00:36:00,895
shoot rabbits by the light
of the moon.
587
00:36:01,461 --> 00:36:03,564
Weapon's clear, Gene.
588
00:36:04,799 --> 00:36:05,833
Weapon's clear.
589
00:36:10,672 --> 00:36:12,472
Your reputation precedes you.
590
00:36:12,807 --> 00:36:15,543
- Jimmy isn't a fan.
- Yeah, Tulley either.
591
00:36:16,309 --> 00:36:19,277
Well, if you guys want this guy
to get the medal,
592
00:36:19,279 --> 00:36:21,413
I gotta get statements,
testimony.
593
00:36:21,415 --> 00:36:24,482
It was one day, decades ago.
594
00:36:24,484 --> 00:36:26,886
Pitsenbarger came
into that shitstorm on purpose.
595
00:36:26,888 --> 00:36:28,523
I mean, how do you account
for that?
596
00:36:28,723 --> 00:36:32,192
Duty, commitment, mission.
Pick one.
597
00:36:33,828 --> 00:36:35,697
I kept telling him to get out...
598
00:36:36,731 --> 00:36:37,899
but he wouldn't go.
599
00:36:38,666 --> 00:36:40,501
Even his CO ordered him back up.
600
00:36:41,002 --> 00:36:42,870
Their bird
was getting ripped up.
601
00:36:43,671 --> 00:36:44,972
But he waved them off.
602
00:36:46,674 --> 00:36:47,942
Probably saved them too.
603
00:36:48,843 --> 00:36:49,977
Hell, he was Air Force.
604
00:36:50,545 --> 00:36:51,879
He shouldn't even
have been there.
605
00:36:52,412 --> 00:36:54,481
- None of us should have.
- How so?
606
00:36:55,583 --> 00:36:57,550
We'd already been out
two weeks on patrol,
607
00:36:57,552 --> 00:36:59,317
but once we tangled
608
00:36:59,319 --> 00:37:01,622
with those NVA forces,
naturally,
609
00:37:02,023 --> 00:37:03,457
we got the duty.
610
00:37:03,825 --> 00:37:06,527
- Duty?
- Bait, brother.
611
00:37:07,327 --> 00:37:08,328
Live bait.
612
00:37:13,501 --> 00:37:14,635
Everybody down!
613
00:37:16,537 --> 00:37:17,705
They put us there
to make contact.
614
00:37:18,940 --> 00:37:22,777
Alpha and Bravo would flank
and we'd grind 'em into pulp,
615
00:37:23,376 --> 00:37:24,710
take 'em out at whatever cost.
616
00:37:24,712 --> 00:37:27,380
Search and destroy.
Notches on your pistol, baby.
617
00:37:27,949 --> 00:37:30,250
Kill ratios, body counts.
618
00:37:30,818 --> 00:37:31,986
It was total bullshit.
619
00:37:32,954 --> 00:37:35,556
Westmoreland, McNamara, Johnson.
620
00:37:36,389 --> 00:37:37,892
That's how they kept
the money flowing.
621
00:37:38,458 --> 00:37:40,460
Kick an anthill.
Grease a mess of gooks.
622
00:37:41,062 --> 00:37:43,495
Next day the NVA'd be
right back again.
623
00:38:02,683 --> 00:38:04,617
- What's happening?
- More gooks, sir!
624
00:38:04,619 --> 00:38:05,887
- Where?
- Over there, sir!
625
00:38:06,721 --> 00:38:08,589
This place is crawling
with them!
626
00:38:13,694 --> 00:38:14,695
They're in the trees.
627
00:38:15,096 --> 00:38:16,662
They're in the trees.
628
00:38:20,467 --> 00:38:22,870
Cover me!
629
00:38:28,142 --> 00:38:29,777
We didn't have a fucking chance.
630
00:38:42,657 --> 00:38:43,925
Ah. You're dogging it.
631
00:38:44,158 --> 00:38:45,157
Just so you know,
632
00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:47,059
I can't find the chain
of command endorsements
633
00:38:47,061 --> 00:38:48,328
in the Pitsenbarger file.
634
00:38:49,396 --> 00:38:50,832
- So put it in your report.
- I'm missing something.
635
00:38:51,498 --> 00:38:54,401
- What are you doing?
- What?
636
00:38:54,602 --> 00:38:56,804
This thing was ancient history
before you were born.
637
00:38:58,005 --> 00:38:59,372
Let me let you in on something.
638
00:38:59,607 --> 00:39:01,740
It is an undisputed fact
at the Pentagon
639
00:39:01,742 --> 00:39:03,878
that all the real hardware goes
to the officers.
640
00:39:04,579 --> 00:39:06,779
There's been one enlisted
Medal of Honor
641
00:39:06,781 --> 00:39:08,049
in the history of the Air Force.
642
00:39:08,850 --> 00:39:10,716
So somebody
makes endorsements disappear
643
00:39:10,718 --> 00:39:12,019
because the guy's enlisted?
644
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,354
It's not a can of worms
you wanna open.
645
00:39:15,488 --> 00:39:17,056
- Why not?
- Because confronting
646
00:39:17,058 --> 00:39:19,961
the Air Force decorations board
is not in your best interest.
647
00:39:20,528 --> 00:39:21,596
Oh, shoot.
648
00:39:22,462 --> 00:39:23,428
I'm getting a shower.
649
00:39:23,430 --> 00:39:24,866
- Yeah.
- It doesn't count.
650
00:39:33,875 --> 00:39:34,942
Hey there, hotshot.
651
00:39:35,943 --> 00:39:36,844
Thought you fell off
the planet.
652
00:39:37,778 --> 00:39:39,714
I'm pacing myself.
It's a long way down.
653
00:39:40,014 --> 00:39:41,515
What can I do for you?
654
00:39:42,583 --> 00:39:44,986
You ever hear
of a General John A. Hackmeyer?
655
00:39:45,853 --> 00:39:48,587
He was one
of the army silverbacks
656
00:39:48,589 --> 00:39:50,024
down in Saigon during the war.
657
00:39:50,457 --> 00:39:52,091
He was also
the service secretary
658
00:39:52,093 --> 00:39:54,394
that approved the Medal of Honor
of your division.
659
00:39:55,062 --> 00:39:56,530
Think you could track him down?
660
00:39:56,764 --> 00:39:58,831
He's probably fertilizer by now.
661
00:39:58,833 --> 00:40:01,969
Besides, you're the one
with the DOD security clearance.
662
00:40:03,004 --> 00:40:04,872
Maybe we don't want the DOD
to know.
663
00:40:06,741 --> 00:40:07,942
Can you hold on a second?
664
00:40:16,217 --> 00:40:17,417
We don't?
665
00:40:18,451 --> 00:40:19,518
Chain of command endorsements
666
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,089
are an essential element
for congressional review,
667
00:40:22,823 --> 00:40:24,025
and they're not in the file.
668
00:40:25,159 --> 00:40:27,028
What are you asking me?
669
00:40:27,561 --> 00:40:28,994
I'm asking you if it's possible
670
00:40:28,996 --> 00:40:30,998
that what we're looking
for isn't really lost.
671
00:40:31,966 --> 00:40:33,200
What are you doing?
672
00:40:35,102 --> 00:40:37,036
I'm doing my job. What do you...
673
00:40:37,038 --> 00:40:38,570
What do you mean,
what am I doing?
674
00:40:38,572 --> 00:40:40,541
It's a rare quality these days.
675
00:40:41,275 --> 00:40:43,075
What, did you grow a conscience?
676
00:40:43,077 --> 00:40:46,113
Not at all.
It's a waste of energy.
677
00:40:48,516 --> 00:40:49,817
Well, I'll sniff around.
678
00:40:51,218 --> 00:40:52,119
Okay.
679
00:41:11,105 --> 00:41:12,638
- Daddy?
- How you doing,
680
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:13,674
mister?
681
00:41:15,276 --> 00:41:16,677
We have company.
682
00:41:19,113 --> 00:41:20,480
Hi.
683
00:41:20,881 --> 00:41:23,217
Long drive from Wilmington
in that school bus.
684
00:41:23,884 --> 00:41:25,184
I don't have a car.
685
00:41:25,186 --> 00:41:27,021
They let me
take her home nights.
686
00:41:30,324 --> 00:41:32,291
- Who wants to build a fort?
- Me.
687
00:41:32,293 --> 00:41:35,029
- Okay.
- Thanks for the coffee.
688
00:41:35,696 --> 00:41:36,697
Pleasure.
689
00:41:41,702 --> 00:41:43,170
You messed with my head, man...
690
00:41:44,772 --> 00:41:46,040
when you came to see me.
691
00:41:48,142 --> 00:41:49,810
Started having dreams again.
692
00:41:52,246 --> 00:41:53,614
Can't sleep.
693
00:41:54,882 --> 00:41:57,084
Probably normal, considering.
694
00:42:02,323 --> 00:42:03,657
Sit down.
695
00:42:06,894 --> 00:42:07,895
I, um...
696
00:42:11,165 --> 00:42:14,133
When I got out of the, uh,
army hospital in Saigon,
697
00:42:14,135 --> 00:42:15,968
I wanted to wear
my dress uniform
698
00:42:15,970 --> 00:42:17,171
for my mother,
even though I knew...
699
00:42:18,272 --> 00:42:20,808
even though they carried me off
the plane. She was...
700
00:42:21,776 --> 00:42:24,111
She was crying when she saw me,
701
00:42:24,345 --> 00:42:27,148
my ribbons and my Purple Heart.
702
00:42:28,315 --> 00:42:30,382
They took me straight to the VA
703
00:42:30,384 --> 00:42:32,317
and I was in there for months
before I got home,
704
00:42:32,319 --> 00:42:34,021
I never saw that uniform again.
705
00:42:35,990 --> 00:42:38,893
She packed everything up
from the war in my duffle,
706
00:42:40,094 --> 00:42:41,693
like it never happened,
you know,
707
00:42:41,695 --> 00:42:43,395
and I guess I didn't care,
708
00:42:43,397 --> 00:42:46,600
'cause it's been sitting
in her attic ever since.
709
00:42:48,669 --> 00:42:51,772
My daughter's a shrink.
710
00:42:54,008 --> 00:42:55,242
She thought maybe...
711
00:42:55,910 --> 00:42:57,044
it'd be good...
712
00:42:58,946 --> 00:43:00,681
uh, for me to unpack it.
713
00:43:03,150 --> 00:43:04,819
Everything was still there.
714
00:43:07,755 --> 00:43:10,157
The smell of war still
on my clothes.
715
00:43:12,293 --> 00:43:13,594
And, um...
716
00:43:30,845 --> 00:43:31,979
Pits gave that to me.
717
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:34,315
He asked me to take care of it.
718
00:43:35,216 --> 00:43:36,817
He asked me to bring it to her.
719
00:43:41,188 --> 00:43:42,089
The guy saved my life
720
00:43:43,190 --> 00:43:44,289
and there was one small thing
that he asked of me
721
00:43:44,291 --> 00:43:45,659
and I wouldn't do it.
722
00:43:49,730 --> 00:43:50,898
I couldn't do it.
723
00:44:03,377 --> 00:44:04,945
You know what that makes me?
724
00:44:17,925 --> 00:44:19,360
1954.
725
00:44:20,127 --> 00:44:23,030
It snowed all night. Ah,
that was a beautiful Christmas.
726
00:44:23,397 --> 00:44:26,066
I got Bill his Flexible Flyer.
727
00:44:27,168 --> 00:44:29,370
It's... It's still out there
in the garage.
728
00:44:29,904 --> 00:44:32,037
- You were close?
- Sure.
729
00:44:32,039 --> 00:44:36,277
But, uh, I wa... I was
on the road in... In those days.
730
00:44:36,877 --> 00:44:38,412
I missed so much.
731
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:41,749
Yeah.
732
00:44:47,321 --> 00:44:48,856
You close to your dad?
733
00:44:49,857 --> 00:44:51,825
Actually, I never met him.
734
00:44:55,262 --> 00:44:57,464
Why...
Why did you let him go?
735
00:44:58,132 --> 00:44:59,433
Why didn't you just stop him?
736
00:45:01,135 --> 00:45:04,438
You can't teach
your children values...
737
00:45:05,806 --> 00:45:09,007
and then just withdraw 'em
because you're afraid
738
00:45:09,009 --> 00:45:10,377
of what you might lose.
739
00:45:11,212 --> 00:45:13,781
It just seemed
like such a high price to pay.
740
00:45:15,082 --> 00:45:16,417
If not my son...
741
00:45:17,818 --> 00:45:18,886
then whose?
742
00:45:19,486 --> 00:45:21,021
My neighbor's?
743
00:45:21,556 --> 00:45:22,890
My sister's?
744
00:45:24,124 --> 00:45:25,125
Yours?
745
00:45:26,994 --> 00:45:27,995
Bill...
746
00:45:28,963 --> 00:45:31,298
he honored all of us by serving,
747
00:45:31,966 --> 00:45:33,968
and that's no small thing.
748
00:45:36,337 --> 00:45:37,505
No disrespect.
749
00:45:38,540 --> 00:45:39,974
None taken.
750
00:45:41,576 --> 00:45:43,210
In 1965,
751
00:45:43,844 --> 00:45:46,814
the first ground troops landed
at Da Nang.
752
00:45:47,348 --> 00:45:49,350
I had the thing on TV
all the time.
753
00:45:49,950 --> 00:45:53,187
A couple of weeks later,
the US embassy was bombed.
754
00:45:54,955 --> 00:45:58,490
Americans his age started dying.
755
00:45:58,492 --> 00:46:00,327
Boys from our own town.
756
00:46:01,362 --> 00:46:02,930
I... I think it moved him.
757
00:46:03,397 --> 00:46:06,231
He came to me one night,
I knew what he was thinking.
758
00:46:06,233 --> 00:46:08,836
God, it sent
a jolt right through me.
759
00:46:10,104 --> 00:46:11,506
But he went easy on me.
760
00:46:12,206 --> 00:46:15,409
He never asked for permission.
761
00:46:16,511 --> 00:46:18,946
I think he knew
what it would mean later...
762
00:46:20,347 --> 00:46:21,949
if something happened to him.
763
00:46:30,224 --> 00:46:34,562
By the time I woke up,
he'd already gone.
764
00:46:36,430 --> 00:46:38,032
Next time I saw him...
765
00:46:40,334 --> 00:46:42,303
he had a haircut and orders.
766
00:46:44,204 --> 00:46:47,074
I was never so frightened
and I was never so proud.
767
00:46:49,209 --> 00:46:52,913
I can't help it,
but I... I still miss...
768
00:46:54,381 --> 00:46:57,151
watching him mow
the lawn out there,
769
00:46:58,085 --> 00:47:01,453
the smell of fresh cut grass
on his sneakers.
770
00:47:03,692 --> 00:47:06,827
And how he folded his clothes,
even when they were dirty,
771
00:47:07,662 --> 00:47:09,496
'cause he knew
it pleased his mom.
772
00:47:10,565 --> 00:47:15,400
I miss the way
he tapped his cleats for luck
773
00:47:15,402 --> 00:47:16,970
when he went up to bat...
774
00:47:17,971 --> 00:47:20,107
and the way
he always found me...
775
00:47:22,409 --> 00:47:24,076
when he crossed home plate.
776
00:47:24,078 --> 00:47:26,980
There's a thousand things
like that.
777
00:47:28,382 --> 00:47:32,486
But mostly, I miss
what I didn't get to see him do.
778
00:47:33,354 --> 00:47:34,488
What do you mean?
779
00:47:35,255 --> 00:47:37,592
Well, I never got
to see him marry,
780
00:47:38,392 --> 00:47:40,894
or fall in love with a child
of his own.
781
00:47:42,530 --> 00:47:43,565
Because only then...
782
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,336
could he understand
how much his father loved him.
783
00:47:55,175 --> 00:47:56,611
I... I have a son.
784
00:47:58,011 --> 00:48:00,214
Then you know
what we're talking about.
785
00:48:03,283 --> 00:48:05,252
Who is, uh, Jenny?
786
00:48:05,486 --> 00:48:08,422
Oh, Jenny Raynor.
787
00:48:08,656 --> 00:48:10,023
So beautiful.
788
00:48:10,558 --> 00:48:13,158
She came to live with us
while Bill was overseas.
789
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,563
You see, Mr. Huffman...
790
00:48:17,632 --> 00:48:19,400
we actually lost...
791
00:48:20,300 --> 00:48:24,037
- two children that day.
- Here are her letters.
792
00:48:24,438 --> 00:48:26,541
She gave them to us
when she got married,
793
00:48:27,307 --> 00:48:29,577
but we could never
bring ourselves to read 'em.
794
00:48:31,546 --> 00:48:33,046
Mr. Pitsenbarger...
795
00:48:33,748 --> 00:48:35,517
I just... I just wanna be clear.
796
00:48:37,985 --> 00:48:40,287
This process
doesn't take months.
797
00:48:40,755 --> 00:48:42,256
It takes years.
798
00:48:43,658 --> 00:48:45,560
Scott, I have cancer.
799
00:48:46,193 --> 00:48:49,294
I should have been gone already
if you'd believe the doctors.
800
00:48:49,296 --> 00:48:52,132
But, he's a fighter, my man.
801
00:48:53,467 --> 00:48:54,366
I'm sorry.
802
00:48:54,368 --> 00:48:57,035
Dying isn't harder
than losing a child,
803
00:48:57,037 --> 00:48:57,971
I promise you.
804
00:48:58,972 --> 00:49:00,675
- Do what you can, son.
- Thank you.
805
00:49:23,163 --> 00:49:24,498
He sleeps so soundly.
806
00:49:26,166 --> 00:49:28,035
He has no worries.
807
00:49:29,436 --> 00:49:30,605
Pitsenbarger...
808
00:49:31,739 --> 00:49:33,106
he had everything.
809
00:49:33,775 --> 00:49:35,577
People really cared
about the guy.
810
00:49:37,277 --> 00:49:38,412
And really loved him.
811
00:49:44,251 --> 00:49:45,687
How could he give all that up?
812
00:49:46,788 --> 00:49:48,453
He knew
what he was leaving behind,
813
00:49:48,455 --> 00:49:49,524
and still he...
814
00:49:51,358 --> 00:49:52,627
had such certainty.
815
00:49:54,461 --> 00:49:55,462
Of what?
816
00:49:57,130 --> 00:49:58,131
That...
817
00:49:59,734 --> 00:50:01,235
no bullet was gonna...
818
00:50:02,469 --> 00:50:04,739
stop him from being who he was.
819
00:50:07,509 --> 00:50:08,741
I've never felt that certain
820
00:50:08,743 --> 00:50:10,410
about anything
in my entire life.
821
00:50:20,688 --> 00:50:21,689
I have.
822
00:51:11,539 --> 00:51:13,138
Look, we're gonna play possum,
all right?
823
00:51:13,140 --> 00:51:15,307
No matter what,
don't move, don't breathe.
824
00:51:15,309 --> 00:51:17,110
Come on, get on top.
Come on. Hurry up.
825
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:21,847
We have contact all around us.
826
00:51:21,849 --> 00:51:23,516
VC got
their whole goddamn battalion
827
00:51:23,518 --> 00:51:25,283
- out of bed for this one.
- We're gonna tighten up
828
00:51:25,285 --> 00:51:28,221
- this circle right now.
- Takoda's still out there, sir,
829
00:51:28,856 --> 00:51:30,690
Willy, and Burr, too.
830
00:51:32,527 --> 00:51:34,328
Nobody gets left outside
the perimeter.
831
00:52:12,934 --> 00:52:14,301
Hello?
832
00:52:25,747 --> 00:52:27,515
Whatever it is you want...
833
00:52:29,216 --> 00:52:30,350
it's okay.
834
00:52:46,466 --> 00:52:47,401
Psst.
835
00:52:48,235 --> 00:52:49,369
Anybody alive?
836
00:52:49,837 --> 00:52:50,905
Yeah.
837
00:53:04,752 --> 00:53:06,552
- I can't breathe.
- Whoa.
838
00:53:06,554 --> 00:53:08,253
Well, they messed you up good,
Lieutenant.
839
00:53:08,255 --> 00:53:09,855
Get me out of here,
will you?
840
00:53:09,857 --> 00:53:10,956
Hey. All right.
841
00:53:10,958 --> 00:53:12,894
I need you to help me
with the lieutenant, okay?
842
00:53:13,326 --> 00:53:15,528
- Are you with me? Ssh, ssh.
- You gotta help Willy.
843
00:53:15,530 --> 00:53:17,262
- We can't leave Willy.
- Shh, shh.
844
00:53:17,264 --> 00:53:18,432
Willy's gone, friend, all right?
845
00:53:19,534 --> 00:53:20,802
Now, are you with me?
Look at me. Are you with me?
846
00:53:21,769 --> 00:53:23,771
All right. Come on.
All right, up you get.
847
00:53:23,971 --> 00:53:25,403
Come on, grab a shoulder.
848
00:53:25,405 --> 00:53:27,606
One, two...
849
00:53:28,609 --> 00:53:29,811
Grab his belt. Let's go.
850
00:53:40,655 --> 00:53:43,490
This way.
851
00:53:44,726 --> 00:53:46,493
Come on, man, let's go!
Get up!
852
00:53:47,061 --> 00:53:49,595
It's Takoda.
For Christ's sake, don't shoot.
853
00:53:49,597 --> 00:53:52,464
Put him down over there.
Over there. That's it.
854
00:53:52,466 --> 00:53:54,535
Easy, easy, easy.
855
00:53:55,302 --> 00:53:57,337
Wrap it and pack it, all right?
856
00:54:01,676 --> 00:54:04,612
Right, not too tight.
Just venous pressure.
857
00:54:06,313 --> 00:54:08,516
Okay, that's it. That's it.
858
00:54:09,684 --> 00:54:11,584
Okay.
859
00:54:11,586 --> 00:54:13,320
Just a few minutes, all right?
860
00:54:15,623 --> 00:54:17,424
Hey, you're doing great.
861
00:54:18,059 --> 00:54:19,326
You're doing just great.
862
00:54:23,030 --> 00:54:24,699
All right, okay.
863
00:54:25,398 --> 00:54:27,869
One, two, three.
864
00:54:28,803 --> 00:54:30,636
I need you to hold that,
865
00:54:30,638 --> 00:54:32,006
all right? Don't let that move.
866
00:54:32,573 --> 00:54:34,942
- Okay?
- Why are you here?
867
00:54:36,476 --> 00:54:37,645
Because you're here.
868
00:54:50,490 --> 00:54:51,526
Did he...
869
00:54:52,093 --> 00:54:53,426
say anything?
870
00:54:56,063 --> 00:54:57,765
He never says anything.
871
00:56:11,038 --> 00:56:13,672
Hey.
Somebody somewhere likes you.
872
00:56:13,674 --> 00:56:16,842
- Hey, Carl.
- The FBI is doing due diligence.
873
00:56:16,844 --> 00:56:18,110
You're on the shortlist
874
00:56:18,112 --> 00:56:20,848
for Assistant Secretary
for Legislative Affairs.
875
00:56:22,183 --> 00:56:23,416
What'd you tell 'em?
876
00:56:23,885 --> 00:56:25,951
That you're a lying,
womanizing pimp
877
00:56:25,953 --> 00:56:27,121
and you cheat at hoops.
878
00:56:28,322 --> 00:56:30,490
They assured me those were
all occupational requirements.
879
00:56:32,459 --> 00:56:33,828
What about the MOH?
880
00:56:34,695 --> 00:56:35,895
MOH? I'll reassign it.
881
00:56:35,897 --> 00:56:38,030
I mean, I probably should
have done it in the first place.
882
00:56:38,032 --> 00:56:39,600
Somebody was bound
to pick you up.
883
00:56:43,037 --> 00:56:46,073
I see Senator Holt's peddling
an election-year memoir.
884
00:56:46,741 --> 00:56:47,940
Yeah, you should read it.
885
00:56:47,942 --> 00:56:48,874
You might learn something.
886
00:56:48,876 --> 00:56:51,577
- You write any of it?
- Every other word.
887
00:56:51,579 --> 00:56:53,746
That's good, Carl.
888
00:56:53,748 --> 00:56:55,650
First time you've told the truth
in four years.
889
00:56:56,183 --> 00:56:57,850
What's the matter with you?
You...
890
00:56:57,852 --> 00:57:00,619
You don't want the best civilian
job in the Pentagon?
891
00:57:00,621 --> 00:57:03,589
I mean, this... This makes you.
892
00:57:03,591 --> 00:57:05,760
It's 3-D moves from here on out,
893
00:57:06,060 --> 00:57:08,227
not to mention getting you back
to Appropriations.
894
00:57:08,229 --> 00:57:09,997
I need to finish this report.
895
00:57:10,865 --> 00:57:13,501
Are you kidding me? Look at me.
896
00:57:14,502 --> 00:57:17,038
You're a predator, man.
You're a goddamn meat eater.
897
00:57:17,271 --> 00:57:18,706
That single instinct
898
00:57:18,940 --> 00:57:22,174
has taken you very far
in a very short time,
899
00:57:22,176 --> 00:57:23,976
so don't get sentimental
on me now.
900
00:57:23,978 --> 00:57:26,078
So you're gonna finish
the review?
901
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:27,447
Yeah, absolutely.
902
00:57:28,215 --> 00:57:30,483
I'll send an intern down
to pick it all up.
903
00:57:30,718 --> 00:57:31,719
An intern.
904
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,790
- Well, congratulations, man.
- Yeah.
905
00:57:42,730 --> 00:57:44,863
You'd think I'd be better
at this second time around.
906
00:57:46,767 --> 00:57:49,070
Well, you could read
the instructions.
907
00:57:49,770 --> 00:57:50,938
That would be cheating.
908
00:57:54,208 --> 00:57:56,911
- Stanton was looking for you.
- Well, he found me.
909
00:57:58,179 --> 00:57:59,678
I'm on the shortlist
910
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:01,816
for Assistant Secretary
for Legislative Affairs.
911
00:58:03,284 --> 00:58:04,819
What about Dave Croft?
912
00:58:05,252 --> 00:58:06,187
Croft's out.
913
00:58:07,788 --> 00:58:10,658
- Well, that's great, then.
- It's a career maker.
914
00:58:11,092 --> 00:58:13,493
E-ring, a view of the river.
915
00:58:14,028 --> 00:58:15,828
Well, since they threw
in the view...
916
00:58:15,830 --> 00:58:17,898
Yeah. I mean,
what's wrong with that?
917
00:58:20,234 --> 00:58:21,635
What about the MOH?
918
00:58:22,770 --> 00:58:25,072
The Pitsenbargers are in town.
919
00:58:25,606 --> 00:58:27,675
Frank's having some tests done
at the VA.
920
00:58:28,175 --> 00:58:29,176
What's wrong with him?
921
00:58:30,711 --> 00:58:31,912
Ewing's sarcoma.
922
00:58:33,014 --> 00:58:34,015
God.
923
00:58:35,316 --> 00:58:37,118
They're gonna be here
for Thanksgiving.
924
00:58:38,019 --> 00:58:41,153
Maybe they'll see our situation
and meet Luke and you and...
925
00:58:41,155 --> 00:58:43,655
You are not using us
as your excuse.
926
00:58:43,657 --> 00:58:46,060
Our life is not an excuse,
Tara, it's a fact.
927
00:58:47,962 --> 00:58:48,961
Besides, Stanton said
he's gonna
928
00:58:48,963 --> 00:58:51,065
have someone pick it up
right where I leave off.
929
00:58:53,968 --> 00:58:54,969
Okay.
930
00:59:00,207 --> 00:59:01,607
We were Michigan fans
931
00:59:01,609 --> 00:59:03,909
long before we moved
to Buckeye country.
932
00:59:03,911 --> 00:59:05,210
It's more than a football game
933
00:59:05,212 --> 00:59:07,246
when the Wolverines come
to Columbus.
934
00:59:07,248 --> 00:59:10,015
- Do you still go to the games?
- Oh, God, no.
935
00:59:10,017 --> 00:59:11,685
- Not since...
- 1965.
936
00:59:13,988 --> 00:59:14,922
I'm sorry.
937
00:59:16,057 --> 00:59:16,989
Talking about Bill
938
00:59:16,991 --> 00:59:19,060
is one of the greatest joys
of our life.
939
00:59:19,693 --> 00:59:21,996
Keeping him alive
keeps us strong.
940
00:59:22,263 --> 00:59:23,731
It's how we balance our grief
941
00:59:24,065 --> 00:59:26,265
and how we live a happy life
without him.
942
00:59:26,267 --> 00:59:29,003
Oh. Huh.
943
00:59:29,637 --> 00:59:30,604
Is that a game?
944
00:59:31,605 --> 00:59:34,308
This is a machine
that gives me my medicine.
945
00:59:36,210 --> 00:59:38,243
Whoa.
946
00:59:38,245 --> 00:59:40,846
- We are minutes away.
- Yeah, we're ready.
947
00:59:40,848 --> 00:59:43,082
- May I help?
- Oh, uh, Luke, honey,
948
00:59:43,084 --> 00:59:45,050
why don't you show Alice
and Frank your room?
949
00:59:45,052 --> 00:59:46,821
- Thank you, Luke.
- Okay. Okay.
950
00:59:53,828 --> 00:59:55,162
How do you think
I should do this?
951
00:59:56,297 --> 00:59:57,298
Be honest.
952
00:59:59,266 --> 01:00:00,701
I meant the turkey.
953
01:00:35,202 --> 01:00:39,140
Scott, may I, uh...
give the blessing?
954
01:00:40,708 --> 01:00:41,909
Yeah, of course.
955
01:00:43,244 --> 01:00:44,145
Okay.
956
01:00:44,979 --> 01:00:46,046
Heavenly Father...
957
01:00:48,149 --> 01:00:50,883
please bless this food
958
01:00:50,885 --> 01:00:53,420
that it may nourish
this growing family
959
01:00:54,054 --> 01:00:56,023
and the friendship between us.
960
01:00:57,091 --> 01:00:59,426
And give praise
to this young man
961
01:00:59,927 --> 01:01:03,430
as he honors us
with his commitment to ensure
962
01:01:04,231 --> 01:01:06,433
that the sacrifices
of the fallen...
963
01:01:07,735 --> 01:01:09,003
were neither in vain...
964
01:01:10,237 --> 01:01:11,972
nor will they ever be forgotten.
965
01:01:13,974 --> 01:01:14,975
Amen.
966
01:01:23,350 --> 01:01:24,385
What you say, mister?
967
01:01:27,821 --> 01:01:31,156
- What are you doing here?
- Tulley had your number.
968
01:01:31,158 --> 01:01:34,228
So I called, talked
to your wife. Nice woman.
969
01:01:34,862 --> 01:01:36,463
She told me where you was at.
970
01:01:37,131 --> 01:01:38,132
Sit down.
971
01:01:40,467 --> 01:01:42,403
- Coffee?
- No.
972
01:01:51,245 --> 01:01:52,947
You tracked me down
to give me this?
973
01:01:59,186 --> 01:02:02,456
You... never appreciate
974
01:02:02,856 --> 01:02:05,059
what American artillery
can do...
975
01:02:06,060 --> 01:02:08,062
till you see
it waste your own people.
976
01:02:08,862 --> 01:02:10,130
What are you talking about?
977
01:02:11,365 --> 01:02:13,434
The first round killed three
for sure.
978
01:02:14,802 --> 01:02:16,268
Ain't no telling how many
of the wounded
979
01:02:16,270 --> 01:02:19,173
would have died later if the VC
hadn't got to 'em first.
980
01:02:20,575 --> 01:02:23,177
If you give your shooters
a good plot,
981
01:02:23,578 --> 01:02:25,877
them Red Legs could put
a .105 round
982
01:02:25,879 --> 01:02:27,181
inside a pickle barrel.
983
01:02:28,816 --> 01:02:30,818
I got
the distance correction wrong...
984
01:02:31,952 --> 01:02:33,854
and we got thumped
by our own shit.
985
01:02:35,189 --> 01:02:38,459
- What are you saying?
- It was blue on blue, brother.
986
01:02:39,860 --> 01:02:41,962
Friendly fire.
Ain't no getting around that.
987
01:02:42,229 --> 01:02:44,029
Damage! Damage!
988
01:02:44,031 --> 01:02:45,430
Charlie Three
has a fire mission.
989
01:02:45,432 --> 01:02:49,301
Shift from Queensland,
direction 3-1-0,
990
01:02:49,303 --> 01:02:51,370
distance 300 meters.
991
01:02:51,372 --> 01:02:52,471
We will adjust.
992
01:02:53,874 --> 01:02:56,944
Shit. Splash. Adjust left 100.
993
01:02:57,512 --> 01:03:00,379
What the hell was that?
994
01:03:02,983 --> 01:03:04,519
Can I get some ammo, please?
995
01:03:05,185 --> 01:03:06,554
I need some fucking ammo.
996
01:03:10,958 --> 01:03:11,990
Man down!
997
01:03:11,992 --> 01:03:14,893
Charlie Three
has a fire mission. Drop 100.
998
01:03:14,895 --> 01:03:16,063
Fire for effect.
999
01:03:16,330 --> 01:03:19,366
Make it danger close.
Make it danger close.
1000
01:03:21,201 --> 01:03:23,871
Move up! Move up!
1001
01:03:32,313 --> 01:03:33,380
Medic!
1002
01:03:34,381 --> 01:03:35,816
Medic!
1003
01:03:36,317 --> 01:03:40,120
So when Tulley says
I'm the one what started it,
1004
01:03:40,888 --> 01:03:42,356
that's what he really means.
1005
01:03:44,158 --> 01:03:45,326
The truth is...
1006
01:03:47,428 --> 01:03:49,029
I killed my own men.
1007
01:03:51,198 --> 01:03:52,900
If I get those numbers right...
1008
01:03:54,234 --> 01:03:56,604
Pitsenbarger probably never
even gets that call,
1009
01:03:57,505 --> 01:03:59,873
never comes down that wire,
never...
1010
01:04:01,108 --> 01:04:02,209
saves my life.
1011
01:04:04,445 --> 01:04:07,145
Maybe he's the one sitting
on a riverbank somewhere
1012
01:04:07,147 --> 01:04:10,918
with his grandkids around him,
and that'd been fine by me.
1013
01:04:12,587 --> 01:04:14,221
Instead he's dead...
1014
01:04:16,156 --> 01:04:18,526
and they gave me
the goddamn Silver Star.
1015
01:04:19,460 --> 01:04:21,995
For what? Surviving?
1016
01:04:23,698 --> 01:04:26,131
I sit around year in
and year out thinking
1017
01:04:26,133 --> 01:04:27,868
about 20 seconds
1018
01:04:28,135 --> 01:04:31,472
32 years ago I wish to God
I could have back.
1019
01:04:34,108 --> 01:04:35,442
Surviving isn't a crime.
1020
01:04:37,545 --> 01:04:40,648
No, it ain't...
but it's a life sentence.
1021
01:04:42,149 --> 01:04:43,651
Getting that medal for Pits,
1022
01:04:44,151 --> 01:04:46,253
for his family,
for the men I lost,
1023
01:04:47,054 --> 01:04:50,290
might be the only decent thing
I get to pull out of that war.
1024
01:04:52,292 --> 01:04:55,394
So, why don't you go on back up
to Washington
1025
01:04:55,396 --> 01:04:57,164
and make that happen, all right?
1026
01:05:12,212 --> 01:05:13,412
Daddy.
1027
01:05:13,414 --> 01:05:15,382
Hey.
1028
01:05:15,617 --> 01:05:17,985
I'm thirsty.
1029
01:05:18,553 --> 01:05:20,921
Okay, buddy,
let's get you a drink.
1030
01:05:21,656 --> 01:05:24,324
Daddy, are those the army men
you're helping?
1031
01:05:27,695 --> 01:05:30,330
Yeah, they are.
1032
01:05:33,434 --> 01:05:35,503
Do you want me to be a army man?
1033
01:05:37,271 --> 01:05:40,474
- Hey. What's going on?
- Hey.
1034
01:05:42,577 --> 01:05:43,944
He just needs a drink.
1035
01:05:45,245 --> 01:05:48,315
Oh, I see. Let's go get you
some water, huh?
1036
01:05:50,384 --> 01:05:53,151
- Everything okay?
- Yeah. See you in a bit.
1037
01:05:53,153 --> 01:05:56,256
Okay. All right.
Let's get you some water.
1038
01:06:03,030 --> 01:06:05,430
Well, Jim, I was deployed
to Vietnam
1039
01:06:05,432 --> 01:06:07,365
at a very interesting point
during the war,
1040
01:06:07,367 --> 01:06:08,601
and that's really
what prompted me
1041
01:06:08,603 --> 01:06:09,604
to write the book.
1042
01:06:10,605 --> 01:06:13,071
I was initially serving
as the G3,
1043
01:06:13,073 --> 01:06:14,306
or operations officer,
1044
01:06:14,308 --> 01:06:18,078
for the 1st Infantry Division,
the Big Red One,
1045
01:06:18,412 --> 01:06:20,045
now, we were deployed, uh,
1046
01:06:20,047 --> 01:06:21,446
northwest of Saigon...
1047
01:06:21,448 --> 01:06:22,447
...in a very crucial area
1048
01:06:22,449 --> 01:06:24,216
next to the capital...
1049
01:06:24,218 --> 01:06:25,016
...Saigon then,
1050
01:06:25,018 --> 01:06:26,353
-
now Ho Chi Minh City.
- Hello?
1051
01:06:27,589 --> 01:06:29,624
Now, what I meant
by a very interesting period...
1052
01:06:36,230 --> 01:06:37,231
Hey.
1053
01:06:38,398 --> 01:06:40,535
- Where is he? Can I see him?
- Slow down.
1054
01:06:41,201 --> 01:06:42,202
Okay.
1055
01:06:51,713 --> 01:06:52,747
Hey, Frank.
1056
01:06:53,715 --> 01:06:56,183
Got someone here to see you.
It's the FNG.
1057
01:06:56,751 --> 01:06:59,785
- Mr. Huffman.
- How you doing, Frank?
1058
01:06:59,787 --> 01:07:01,756
All the better
for seeing you.
1059
01:07:03,290 --> 01:07:04,491
Thank you for coming.
1060
01:07:04,859 --> 01:07:06,059
Of course.
1061
01:07:08,228 --> 01:07:09,731
He gave me a call and, uh...
1062
01:07:11,699 --> 01:07:13,601
- here I am.
- Right.
1063
01:07:18,506 --> 01:07:19,541
Is he dying?
1064
01:07:20,575 --> 01:07:22,042
We're all dying, son.
1065
01:07:25,613 --> 01:07:27,281
I think he's holding on...
1066
01:07:29,651 --> 01:07:31,251
for you to get this done.
1067
01:07:32,887 --> 01:07:34,722
Why are you in the middle
of everything?
1068
01:07:35,422 --> 01:07:39,827
I mean, what's in it for you?
He didn't save your life.
1069
01:07:40,828 --> 01:07:41,829
Didn't he?
1070
01:07:43,698 --> 01:07:45,332
So you feel like you owe?
1071
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:47,267
Absolutely.
1072
01:07:48,302 --> 01:07:50,304
You asked me if I had an agenda.
1073
01:07:50,572 --> 01:07:53,808
It's those people upstairs.
1074
01:07:55,475 --> 01:07:56,678
Now, what about you?
1075
01:08:00,180 --> 01:08:02,314
We'd already been out
two weeks on patrol,
1076
01:08:02,316 --> 01:08:05,383
but once we tangled
with those NVA forces,
1077
01:08:05,385 --> 01:08:08,322
naturally we got the duty.
1078
01:08:08,556 --> 01:08:11,191
-
Duty?
-
Bait, brother.
1079
01:08:11,559 --> 01:08:12,560
Live bait.
1080
01:08:13,595 --> 01:08:15,027
They put us there
to make contact.
1081
01:08:15,029 --> 01:08:19,734
Alpha and Bravo would flank
and we'd grind 'em into pulp.
1082
01:08:20,868 --> 01:08:23,168
Why don't you
just ask Chauncey Kepper?
1083
01:08:23,170 --> 01:08:24,839
He wrote
the after-action report.
1084
01:08:25,372 --> 01:08:27,508
He's the sage of
Southeast Asia.
1085
01:08:28,175 --> 01:08:29,443
We've all been there
to see him.
1086
01:08:30,845 --> 01:08:32,612
If there's anyone who knows
where the bodies are buried,
1087
01:08:32,614 --> 01:08:33,848
it's Kepper.
1088
01:08:40,521 --> 01:08:43,891
I found this.
May the second, 1966.
1089
01:08:44,358 --> 01:08:47,562
Interview with Mr. Kurtz.
1090
01:08:48,462 --> 01:08:50,632
Ex-pat,
Sergeant Chauncey Kepper.
1091
01:08:51,365 --> 01:08:52,865
He wrote
the after-action report.
1092
01:08:52,867 --> 01:08:53,868
Apparently.
1093
01:08:54,936 --> 01:08:56,434
What I can't understand is
why nobody from the DOD
1094
01:08:56,436 --> 01:08:57,337
ever talked to him.
1095
01:08:57,939 --> 01:09:01,141
Southeast Asia
is supposed to be beautiful.
1096
01:09:39,446 --> 01:09:40,581
Down that way.
1097
01:09:41,248 --> 01:09:42,482
- Over there.
- Okay.
1098
01:09:59,366 --> 01:10:00,434
Ahoy there.
1099
01:10:20,555 --> 01:10:21,823
You pray, Mr. Huffman?
1100
01:10:22,790 --> 01:10:23,825
Not really.
1101
01:10:24,458 --> 01:10:26,828
I didn't either.
I prayed that day.
1102
01:10:27,862 --> 01:10:29,262
Prayed for a miracle...
1103
01:10:29,864 --> 01:10:32,365
and one came. His name is Pits.
1104
01:10:33,034 --> 01:10:34,033
We're gonna
1105
01:10:34,035 --> 01:10:36,604
get you home, huh?
You're gonna go back home?
1106
01:10:37,038 --> 01:10:39,572
Man, you're gonna have
one hell of a scar
1107
01:10:39,574 --> 01:10:40,808
by the end of summer.
1108
01:10:41,509 --> 01:10:43,374
She's gonna be impressed
with this one.
1109
01:10:44,679 --> 01:10:46,848
All right, I got
some pain relief coming up.
1110
01:10:48,082 --> 01:10:50,551
All right, hold tight, bud.
Hold tight.
1111
01:10:51,418 --> 01:10:53,686
There you go, buddy.
There you go.
1112
01:10:56,323 --> 01:10:59,390
One, two, three.
1113
01:11:04,932 --> 01:11:06,466
Pits, come on!
1114
01:11:13,541 --> 01:11:16,544
- Come on!
- All right, buddy. Here we go.
1115
01:11:20,380 --> 01:11:21,749
Okay. Let's go!
1116
01:11:50,878 --> 01:11:52,312
Come on!
1117
01:11:53,714 --> 01:11:55,482
Pits, let's go!
1118
01:12:32,987 --> 01:12:36,891
That after-action report
that you wrote on the battle.
1119
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:40,595
A lot of it is missing.
1120
01:12:40,928 --> 01:12:42,395
Everything that I wrote
1121
01:12:42,897 --> 01:12:45,933
went up the Saigon chimney
32 years ago, brother.
1122
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:49,134
Look, I... I talked to a lot
of the guys
1123
01:12:49,136 --> 01:12:50,671
in Charlie Company and...
1124
01:12:52,206 --> 01:12:55,408
no one seems to know.
I mean, who even thought up
1125
01:12:55,710 --> 01:12:57,678
Operation Abilene
in the first place?
1126
01:12:57,979 --> 01:13:00,480
Company CO, Mad Matty Holt.
1127
01:13:03,150 --> 01:13:05,452
- Madison Holt?
- Colonel.
1128
01:13:05,820 --> 01:13:07,822
He's a big shot
in Washington now, I think.
1129
01:13:13,794 --> 01:13:15,897
Yeah, Senator Holt.
1130
01:13:17,865 --> 01:13:19,934
Maybe gonna be
Secretary of Defense one day.
1131
01:13:23,470 --> 01:13:24,639
He was a good CO.
1132
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:28,408
It was a very bad day.
1133
01:13:30,745 --> 01:13:32,613
So why do these vets
come here to see you?
1134
01:13:32,980 --> 01:13:34,849
Why they come here
is none of my business.
1135
01:13:35,850 --> 01:13:36,984
Well, what do you do here?
1136
01:13:38,152 --> 01:13:40,721
I live, I love, and listen.
1137
01:13:41,122 --> 01:13:42,621
- So you listen to them?
- Yeah.
1138
01:13:42,623 --> 01:13:43,925
- To the vets.
- Uh-huh.
1139
01:13:44,992 --> 01:13:47,662
Try to rewrite their story,
help 'em.
1140
01:13:48,495 --> 01:13:49,764
You can't change their past.
1141
01:13:49,964 --> 01:13:52,099
But you can change
your perspective.
1142
01:13:52,767 --> 01:13:55,036
You can create new memories,
1143
01:13:55,636 --> 01:13:58,039
happy memories,
even in a sad place.
1144
01:14:02,076 --> 01:14:03,077
It's choices.
1145
01:14:04,845 --> 01:14:06,479
Our guys come through here,
1146
01:14:07,148 --> 01:14:09,515
people think the war
is who those men are.
1147
01:14:09,517 --> 01:14:10,952
It's not.
It's what happened to 'em.
1148
01:14:12,053 --> 01:14:13,220
And it's just wonderful to,
1149
01:14:13,921 --> 01:14:15,556
kind of, go through stuff
with 'em.
1150
01:14:16,958 --> 01:14:19,126
Hey, I wanna show you something.
1151
01:14:20,094 --> 01:14:20,995
Shh.
1152
01:14:43,985 --> 01:14:45,152
This is incredible.
1153
01:14:48,155 --> 01:14:50,758
I never brought anyone
who didn't feel happy here.
1154
01:14:54,261 --> 01:14:55,596
You did all this?
1155
01:14:56,564 --> 01:14:57,565
Yep.
1156
01:14:59,233 --> 01:15:01,168
You know where we are?
1157
01:15:03,270 --> 01:15:04,605
Uh...
1158
01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:06,841
No.
1159
01:15:07,808 --> 01:15:09,043
This is where he came down.
1160
01:15:09,810 --> 01:15:10,811
Pits.
1161
01:15:12,313 --> 01:15:13,781
I thought I saw an angel.
1162
01:15:15,583 --> 01:15:18,986
And there he was right in front
of me, all clean and pressed.
1163
01:15:19,787 --> 01:15:21,522
Air Force.
1164
01:15:22,957 --> 01:15:24,091
This is Abilene.
1165
01:15:24,925 --> 01:15:26,627
- Here?
- Right here...
1166
01:15:27,228 --> 01:15:28,295
under your feet.
1167
01:15:30,297 --> 01:15:31,766
But now it's Avalon.
1168
01:15:32,933 --> 01:15:33,934
Avalon.
1169
01:15:35,836 --> 01:15:36,971
Avalon.
1170
01:15:38,773 --> 01:15:40,274
Now, how can that be possible...
1171
01:15:41,308 --> 01:15:43,644
to have those two things
in the same place?
1172
01:15:45,713 --> 01:15:48,182
Just stay here
for a while...
1173
01:15:49,350 --> 01:15:50,684
and breathe.
1174
01:16:39,867 --> 01:16:40,868
Let it go.
1175
01:17:15,402 --> 01:17:18,939
The veterans hold
something for all of us.
1176
01:17:20,074 --> 01:17:23,344
They take the shame of war,
denial...
1177
01:17:26,780 --> 01:17:27,781
anger.
1178
01:17:28,883 --> 01:17:32,786
They just come here
so somebody'll listen to them.
1179
01:17:33,888 --> 01:17:35,487
That's why medals
are so important.
1180
01:17:35,489 --> 01:17:38,392
It helps...
It helps bring us together,
1181
01:17:39,126 --> 01:17:40,361
tell stories.
1182
01:17:41,795 --> 01:17:43,063
I'm... I'm just a witness.
1183
01:17:44,165 --> 01:17:45,699
You're a witness, too.
1184
01:17:50,437 --> 01:17:52,373
The Vietnamese love
their khom loi.
1185
01:17:53,374 --> 01:17:55,209
It's symbolic for letting go...
1186
01:17:56,243 --> 01:17:58,312
and if you have something
that you...
1187
01:17:59,747 --> 01:18:01,115
You wanna leave here...
1188
01:18:02,216 --> 01:18:03,784
something you brought
with you...
1189
01:18:04,752 --> 01:18:06,954
you don't want to take back...
1190
01:18:08,889 --> 01:18:10,191
well, just let go.
1191
01:18:37,885 --> 01:18:41,789
They're coming!
1192
01:18:44,058 --> 01:18:45,092
Let's go!
1193
01:18:49,163 --> 01:18:50,862
I'm on the hook with Red Leg.
1194
01:18:50,864 --> 01:18:52,231
Tell them to drop it on top
of us.
1195
01:18:52,233 --> 01:18:54,099
Charlie Six,
emergency fire mission.
1196
01:18:56,270 --> 01:18:58,804
- Call them in now!
- Damage. Damage.
1197
01:18:58,806 --> 01:19:01,006
Charlie Six,
emergency fire mission.
1198
01:19:01,008 --> 01:19:03,210
Quebec Tango 633.
1199
01:19:10,217 --> 01:19:12,417
Damage, damage.
Charlie Six.
1200
01:19:12,419 --> 01:19:15,854
Emergency fire mission.
Quebec Tango 633.
1201
01:19:15,856 --> 01:19:18,392
This is Broken Arrow.
We are being overrun.
1202
01:19:19,093 --> 01:19:20,494
Hold this.
Keep pressure on it.
1203
01:19:21,028 --> 01:19:22,461
Somebody's still out there!
1204
01:19:22,463 --> 01:19:24,865
I need a tourniquet,
I'm bleeding out.
1205
01:19:26,033 --> 01:19:27,468
I need you to do me a favor.
1206
01:19:28,369 --> 01:19:30,002
I need to get this to someone.
1207
01:19:30,004 --> 01:19:31,870
- No.
- Please?
1208
01:19:31,872 --> 01:19:33,508
- No.
- It's a stamp.
1209
01:19:35,242 --> 01:19:36,908
I'll hold onto it
till you get back.
1210
01:19:36,910 --> 01:19:38,377
Okay.
1211
01:19:41,849 --> 01:19:43,017
What are you doing, man?
1212
01:19:44,084 --> 01:19:46,186
You've done enough,
brother. You be still.
1213
01:20:00,367 --> 01:20:03,902
Pits came down,
saved lives, evac'ed wounded,
1214
01:20:03,904 --> 01:20:07,474
fought, died alongside men
he never even knew.
1215
01:20:09,577 --> 01:20:11,078
You pray, Mr. Huffman?
1216
01:20:12,279 --> 01:20:15,115
I prayed that day.
Prayed for a miracle.
1217
01:20:16,551 --> 01:20:18,852
I ain't never seen
nobody die before.
1218
01:20:19,053 --> 01:20:20,454
Coming out!
1219
01:20:22,356 --> 01:20:23,355
That little matter sucked
1220
01:20:23,357 --> 01:20:25,359
all the whoop-ass right out
of me.
1221
01:20:26,393 --> 01:20:28,095
Understand
what I'm saying, sir?
1222
01:20:33,067 --> 01:20:35,169
All this hellfire coming in.
1223
01:20:35,670 --> 01:20:37,071
To him it was like...
1224
01:20:38,673 --> 01:20:40,107
nothing could hurt him.
1225
01:20:41,509 --> 01:20:43,977
He was there to save lives
and that's what he was doing.
1226
01:20:47,114 --> 01:20:48,146
Who knows how many guys
are walking
1227
01:20:48,148 --> 01:20:49,216
around alive today
because of him,
1228
01:20:50,084 --> 01:20:51,251
what he done.
1229
01:20:53,588 --> 01:20:55,255
When he didn't come back...
1230
01:20:58,225 --> 01:21:01,095
I felt like the best part of me
went down with him.
1231
01:21:04,064 --> 01:21:06,400
I still think about it,
'cause...
1232
01:21:07,502 --> 01:21:09,571
...if anybody deserved
to get out of that hell alive,
1233
01:21:10,337 --> 01:21:11,438
it was him.
1234
01:21:17,311 --> 01:21:18,445
Make yourself at home.
1235
01:21:20,180 --> 01:21:21,649
You know,
I could have you arrested.
1236
01:21:23,050 --> 01:21:26,920
Senator Madison Holt,
formerly Colonel Madison Holt.
1237
01:21:27,121 --> 01:21:29,955
First Infantry Division,
the Big Red One.
1238
01:21:29,957 --> 01:21:32,124
The senator's distinguished
military career
1239
01:21:32,126 --> 01:21:35,427
is a matter of public record.
It's undisputed.
1240
01:21:35,429 --> 01:21:38,397
- I bought the book, Carl.
- Yeah? Did you read it,
1241
01:21:38,399 --> 01:21:40,298
or did you just look
at the pictures?
1242
01:21:40,300 --> 01:21:41,734
Holt was part of the brass
1243
01:21:41,736 --> 01:21:43,404
that cooked up
Operation Abilene.
1244
01:21:44,371 --> 01:21:48,608
You're not really suggesting
that Holt ordered an NVA ambush?
1245
01:21:48,610 --> 01:21:51,009
I'm suggesting that it'd be
pretty convenient for you
1246
01:21:51,011 --> 01:21:52,212
to keep that off the record...
1247
01:21:52,580 --> 01:21:54,246
...which is why
you put me on it,
1248
01:21:54,248 --> 01:21:56,316
because you knew I'd dump it.
1249
01:21:57,519 --> 01:21:59,585
You know, Holt's gonna be
Secretary of Defense someday,
1250
01:21:59,587 --> 01:22:00,988
maybe even president.
1251
01:22:01,422 --> 01:22:02,557
You had the comm...
1252
01:22:03,424 --> 01:22:05,959
Command endorsements
all this time.
1253
01:22:09,229 --> 01:22:10,264
I'm taking them.
1254
01:22:11,398 --> 01:22:13,601
Have you ever been the subject
of opposition research?
1255
01:22:14,636 --> 01:22:16,301
'Cause if you even twitch
on this,
1256
01:22:16,303 --> 01:22:18,272
I will have them on you
like spray paint.
1257
01:22:18,706 --> 01:22:21,039
You'll never get
another mortgage, passport,
1258
01:22:21,041 --> 01:22:24,344
or Sam's Club membership card
1259
01:22:25,446 --> 01:22:27,515
let alone
a political appointment.
1260
01:22:30,484 --> 01:22:31,653
But I'm not worried
about all that.
1261
01:22:33,053 --> 01:22:35,420
- Why not?
- Because it's not in your nature
1262
01:22:35,422 --> 01:22:37,088
to spit in the face of a man
1263
01:22:37,090 --> 01:22:39,126
who could just
as easily make you.
1264
01:22:39,493 --> 01:22:40,660
What's my nature?
1265
01:22:40,662 --> 01:22:42,996
Climb, prosper,
expand the gene pool,
1266
01:22:43,197 --> 01:22:44,398
just like the rest of us.
1267
01:22:45,399 --> 01:22:46,400
I'd appreciate it
1268
01:22:47,502 --> 01:22:49,637
if you'd leave the place
the way you found it, and...
1269
01:22:50,638 --> 01:22:54,676
don't forget,
we got squash, Wednesday.
1270
01:23:02,517 --> 01:23:03,585
Jenny,
1271
01:23:04,652 --> 01:23:06,218
sometimes it's difficult
to understand
1272
01:23:06,220 --> 01:23:07,488
why we've been sent here,
1273
01:23:08,222 --> 01:23:10,224
or to explain what happens.
1274
01:23:11,091 --> 01:23:11,992
I only have a minute,
1275
01:23:13,060 --> 01:23:14,259
since we got a call
to make pick-ups
1276
01:23:14,261 --> 01:23:16,363
near Xa Cam My,
about 30 klicks from here.
1277
01:23:17,364 --> 01:23:18,499
You know, Jenny,
1278
01:23:19,233 --> 01:23:21,401
the only thing I fear of dying
1279
01:23:21,636 --> 01:23:23,605
is that dreams
of you won't come,
1280
01:23:24,471 --> 01:23:27,441
that death is dark and still
1281
01:23:28,242 --> 01:23:30,410
and endless
like these jungle nights.
1282
01:23:32,379 --> 01:23:34,081
But sometimes I think, Jen,
1283
01:23:34,616 --> 01:23:37,050
maybe it is this place
I'll wake up from,
1284
01:23:37,552 --> 01:23:39,787
safe and warm in your bed,
1285
01:23:40,287 --> 01:23:42,322
the morning light streaming in.
1286
01:23:45,392 --> 01:23:47,494
But if it is the thunder here
that's real,
1287
01:23:47,829 --> 01:23:50,330
and if this letter
should reach you instead of me,
1288
01:23:51,265 --> 01:23:53,166
then know that I am never far.
1289
01:23:54,536 --> 01:23:57,168
Take care of Mom
and especially Dad,
1290
01:23:57,170 --> 01:23:59,641
because he'll take this
worst of all.
1291
01:24:00,642 --> 01:24:03,578
Tell them I'm sorry
for what I've put them through,
1292
01:24:04,378 --> 01:24:06,246
but that I am sure
of my purpose
1293
01:24:06,648 --> 01:24:08,716
and in the words
we all believe,
1294
01:24:09,651 --> 01:24:13,320
these things we do
that others may live.
1295
01:24:14,321 --> 01:24:15,389
Bill.
1296
01:24:20,728 --> 01:24:21,896
You have an impeccable record.
1297
01:24:23,665 --> 01:24:26,233
The secretary has given you
his highest recommendation.
1298
01:24:27,167 --> 01:24:28,168
Thank you, sir.
1299
01:24:29,369 --> 01:24:30,805
So why do you think you'd be
effective in this position?
1300
01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:35,577
Well, I'm connected,
1301
01:24:36,476 --> 01:24:38,746
ambitious, persuasive...
1302
01:24:40,347 --> 01:24:41,547
not afraid to make enemies,
1303
01:24:41,549 --> 01:24:43,751
and I want this job more
than anybody.
1304
01:24:45,218 --> 01:24:48,088
At least that's what I would
have said a month ago.
1305
01:24:48,556 --> 01:24:49,557
Okay.
1306
01:24:50,792 --> 01:24:51,793
And today?
1307
01:24:54,194 --> 01:24:55,329
Today I'm...
1308
01:24:56,798 --> 01:24:58,131
just unavailable.
1309
01:25:06,908 --> 01:25:08,141
Air Force?
1310
01:25:09,677 --> 01:25:10,745
Yeah.
1311
01:25:12,446 --> 01:25:14,214
I'm sorry about your buddy, man.
1312
01:25:16,784 --> 01:25:18,151
I'm so sorry.
1313
01:25:43,377 --> 01:25:45,813
The whole time
I'm washing him...
1314
01:25:47,347 --> 01:25:50,283
his feet and his hands...
1315
01:25:56,223 --> 01:25:57,592
I didn't feel anything.
1316
01:25:58,860 --> 01:25:59,661
Nothing.
1317
01:26:01,395 --> 01:26:03,296
That's when I knew
I'd been there...
1318
01:26:03,998 --> 01:26:05,298
too long.
1319
01:26:06,968 --> 01:26:08,402
I shipped him back...
1320
01:26:09,469 --> 01:26:12,406
and I finished my tour
and I got on with my life.
1321
01:26:16,644 --> 01:26:17,645
Did you?
1322
01:26:18,579 --> 01:26:19,614
Did I what?
1323
01:26:20,380 --> 01:26:21,716
Get on with your life?
1324
01:26:23,518 --> 01:26:24,585
I'm standing here.
1325
01:26:27,955 --> 01:26:29,189
You know...
1326
01:26:30,525 --> 01:26:31,793
when I was five years old...
1327
01:26:33,661 --> 01:26:36,529
I watched my father
pack up his things in his car
1328
01:26:36,531 --> 01:26:39,266
and leave my mother and me.
1329
01:26:41,468 --> 01:26:42,537
I was so afraid.
1330
01:26:44,438 --> 01:26:45,573
It hurt so much.
1331
01:26:47,775 --> 01:26:50,678
I ran out to the driveway,
and I...
1332
01:26:52,279 --> 01:26:56,751
shoved my hand in the car door
as he slammed it shut.
1333
01:26:58,385 --> 01:27:00,019
I thought that if he saw
I was injured
1334
01:27:00,021 --> 01:27:01,723
and really hurt,
then he would...
1335
01:27:02,657 --> 01:27:03,758
have to take me to the hospital
1336
01:27:04,992 --> 01:27:07,829
and the doctor would tell him
to stay and take care of me.
1337
01:27:10,998 --> 01:27:12,432
But he just drove away.
1338
01:27:15,402 --> 01:27:17,970
I chased his car down
the street,
1339
01:27:17,972 --> 01:27:19,640
my hand all mangled, and...
1340
01:27:22,043 --> 01:27:24,846
till my mother scooped me up.
1341
01:27:29,951 --> 01:27:31,819
Ah. You were marked.
1342
01:27:33,921 --> 01:27:35,255
Just like you.
1343
01:27:39,527 --> 01:27:43,396
What happened to you
on April 11th, 1966?
1344
01:27:44,498 --> 01:27:45,600
My friend died.
1345
01:27:46,567 --> 01:27:47,869
What happened to you?
1346
01:27:50,104 --> 01:27:52,472
- I told you.
- It's okay.
1347
01:27:53,608 --> 01:27:54,609
It's not okay.
1348
01:27:55,009 --> 01:27:56,976
- Just...
- Nothing about it is okay.
1349
01:27:56,978 --> 01:27:58,579
Just tell me.
1350
01:27:58,846 --> 01:28:01,281
What is it? What...
What was it? What happened?
1351
01:28:02,683 --> 01:28:06,986
He died. He got killed.
He got shot in the head.
1352
01:28:06,988 --> 01:28:11,023
- And the... Well, that's war.
- Right, right, it was war.
1353
01:28:11,025 --> 01:28:13,793
So how long are you going
to punish yourself?
1354
01:28:13,795 --> 01:28:17,062
- Punish myself?
- What was the thing you did?
1355
01:28:17,064 --> 01:28:18,633
- What'd I do?
- Yeah.
1356
01:28:18,966 --> 01:28:20,533
Just tell me,
what was the thing you did?
1357
01:28:20,535 --> 01:28:22,968
- No, you stop it.
- It's okay to talk about it.
1358
01:28:22,970 --> 01:28:25,573
- You better stop it, man.
- Just say it.
1359
01:28:26,507 --> 01:28:27,508
Say what?
1360
01:28:28,709 --> 01:28:31,579
He knew it was dangerous.
I told him...
1361
01:28:32,479 --> 01:28:33,848
to be goddamn careful...
1362
01:28:34,782 --> 01:28:35,983
And? What?
1363
01:28:36,617 --> 01:28:38,984
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm not doing this.
1364
01:28:38,986 --> 01:28:41,022
- Doing what?
- Doing this.
1365
01:28:42,523 --> 01:28:44,790
I told him to come back up,
1366
01:28:44,792 --> 01:28:46,994
get back on the wire,
get back in the ship.
1367
01:28:47,460 --> 01:28:49,595
He didn't do that.
Why didn't he do that,
1368
01:28:49,597 --> 01:28:50,565
get back in the ship?
1369
01:28:51,599 --> 01:28:52,665
Because he couldn't.
Because people needed him.
1370
01:28:52,667 --> 01:28:54,500
Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?
1371
01:28:54,502 --> 01:28:56,604
Well, fuck you and...
1372
01:28:59,173 --> 01:29:00,641
Oh, God.
1373
01:29:09,984 --> 01:29:11,584
It's gotta hurt to be mad
at him.
1374
01:29:11,586 --> 01:29:12,854
Yeah.
1375
01:29:14,088 --> 01:29:15,756
What else happened to you, Tom?
1376
01:29:16,090 --> 01:29:18,926
I...
I stayed in the bird
1377
01:29:19,694 --> 01:29:22,730
and I... I...
I didn't go down. I...
1378
01:29:23,998 --> 01:29:25,766
I was relieved. I...
1379
01:29:26,466 --> 01:29:28,970
I stayed, you know,
where it was safe.
1380
01:29:31,806 --> 01:29:33,107
God, when I found him...
1381
01:29:34,976 --> 01:29:36,010
I was...
1382
01:29:39,113 --> 01:29:40,581
...I was glad...
1383
01:29:43,117 --> 01:29:46,886
that it wasn't me,
that I didn't wanna be dead,
1384
01:29:46,888 --> 01:29:48,689
I... I was alive and it...
1385
01:29:51,726 --> 01:29:53,626
- ...it felt good.
- You did feel something.
1386
01:29:53,628 --> 01:29:55,529
Yeah, I felt ashamed!
1387
01:30:02,536 --> 01:30:04,038
You're not a coward, Tom.
1388
01:30:07,575 --> 01:30:08,809
You're a hero.
1389
01:30:12,079 --> 01:30:13,581
Deal with that.
1390
01:30:16,884 --> 01:30:17,919
Just let me...
1391
01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:20,888
Let me have it for a while.
Come on.
1392
01:30:37,772 --> 01:30:40,942
Do you know
what I want?
1393
01:30:41,776 --> 01:30:42,944
I do.
1394
01:30:45,913 --> 01:30:49,517
I want some grace.
I want some serenity.
1395
01:30:49,951 --> 01:30:52,720
I want my country
to honor my brother
1396
01:30:52,954 --> 01:30:54,655
before his parents.
1397
01:30:56,724 --> 01:30:59,527
I want my friend,
your friend...
1398
01:31:01,696 --> 01:31:06,100
I want his father to leave
this place in peace.
1399
01:31:30,992 --> 01:31:32,725
Can I get you
anything else, Senator?
1400
01:31:32,727 --> 01:31:34,660
- No, thanks, hon.
- You can put it on my number.
1401
01:31:34,662 --> 01:31:35,995
- Okay.
- Gentlemen.
1402
01:31:35,997 --> 01:31:37,031
Hey, Carl.
1403
01:31:37,565 --> 01:31:38,599
Colonel.
1404
01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:41,535
- Do I know you?
- I should hope so.
1405
01:31:42,069 --> 01:31:43,902
Master Sergeant Thomas Tulley.
1406
01:31:43,904 --> 01:31:46,705
38th Rescue Squadron,
Operation Abilene.
1407
01:31:46,707 --> 01:31:48,340
Uh, you want to speak
to the senator,
1408
01:31:48,342 --> 01:31:50,544
- you go through channels.
- It's all right, Carl.
1409
01:31:50,978 --> 01:31:52,246
I'll talk to these men.
1410
01:31:53,247 --> 01:31:56,615
Sir, this is a 1966 routing memo
1411
01:31:56,617 --> 01:31:58,884
between you
and General Hackmeyer
1412
01:31:58,886 --> 01:32:00,753
downgrading
the William H. Pitsenbarger
1413
01:32:00,755 --> 01:32:01,822
Medal of Honor request
1414
01:32:02,923 --> 01:32:05,624
to an Air Force Cross,
dated on October 7th, 1966.
1415
01:32:05,626 --> 01:32:07,092
Guys, you wanna give us
a second?
1416
01:32:07,094 --> 01:32:08,029
Go ahead.
1417
01:32:11,799 --> 01:32:12,867
Have a seat.
1418
01:32:15,603 --> 01:32:16,871
We have an opportunity
1419
01:32:17,605 --> 01:32:20,708
to upgrade the Cross
to the Medal of Honor.
1420
01:32:21,675 --> 01:32:25,112
To cut through the bullshit,
we need a congressional sponsor.
1421
01:32:25,379 --> 01:32:27,146
Mr. Stanton doesn't
think you'd favor
1422
01:32:27,148 --> 01:32:29,148
the publicity
of being associated
1423
01:32:29,150 --> 01:32:31,185
with Operation Abilene
during an election year.
1424
01:32:31,385 --> 01:32:33,587
You have no idea
what you're starting.
1425
01:32:34,121 --> 01:32:35,754
I think I do, Carl.
1426
01:32:38,192 --> 01:32:39,258
Have you ever been
1427
01:32:39,260 --> 01:32:40,194
the subject
of opposition research?
1428
01:32:41,028 --> 01:32:42,661
'Cause if you even twitch
on this,
1429
01:32:42,663 --> 01:32:45,266
I will have them on you
like spray paint.
1430
01:32:46,333 --> 01:32:50,035
Information was removed
from the original package
1431
01:32:50,037 --> 01:32:52,738
to disqualify the decorations
board's review
1432
01:32:52,740 --> 01:32:54,640
for congressional reapplication.
1433
01:32:54,642 --> 01:32:56,310
We have since recovered
those documents.
1434
01:32:57,011 --> 01:32:58,644
This... This, Senator, this...
1435
01:32:58,646 --> 01:33:00,245
This communiqué
is simply a response
1436
01:33:00,247 --> 01:33:02,347
to the colonel's MOH request
1437
01:33:02,349 --> 01:33:05,818
saying that the Air Force Cross
was awarded instead.
1438
01:33:05,820 --> 01:33:08,087
It's pretty open
to interpretation.
1439
01:33:08,089 --> 01:33:11,323
You are under no obligation
to respond to any of this.
1440
01:33:11,325 --> 01:33:13,994
If you sent it
up the chain,
1441
01:33:14,728 --> 01:33:16,130
why didn't he get it then?
1442
01:33:17,865 --> 01:33:19,133
Honestly, I don't know.
1443
01:33:19,867 --> 01:33:22,770
Maybe it fell
through the cracks somewhere.
1444
01:33:23,170 --> 01:33:25,904
Maybe MACV didn't wanna call
too much attention
1445
01:33:25,906 --> 01:33:28,142
to one of the bloodiest days
of the war.
1446
01:33:28,976 --> 01:33:32,311
Or maybe
I just didn't fight hard enough
1447
01:33:32,313 --> 01:33:34,113
to get this man
what he deserves.
1448
01:33:34,115 --> 01:33:37,850
Senator, your political enemies
will take full advantage
1449
01:33:37,852 --> 01:33:40,119
of any admission of wrongdoing.
1450
01:33:40,121 --> 01:33:42,754
Your military judgement
will be called into question.
1451
01:33:42,756 --> 01:33:44,790
They'll try and hold you
to the Medina standard.
1452
01:33:44,792 --> 01:33:46,760
He's right, sir. They might.
1453
01:33:50,030 --> 01:33:51,198
What happened on...
1454
01:33:52,900 --> 01:33:54,001
Operation Abilene,
1455
01:33:55,035 --> 01:33:56,237
one of the darkest days
of my life.
1456
01:33:57,238 --> 01:33:58,405
You're hurt, Lieutenant.
1457
01:33:59,340 --> 01:34:00,708
Why are you still here?
1458
01:34:02,176 --> 01:34:04,345
I won't leave
till you have all my wounded.
1459
01:34:08,916 --> 01:34:09,950
What happened here?
1460
01:34:12,019 --> 01:34:13,986
You marched us right
into a kill sack
1461
01:34:13,988 --> 01:34:15,990
with no idea
how we was gonna get out.
1462
01:34:17,291 --> 01:34:18,991
That's what happened here.
1463
01:34:18,993 --> 01:34:22,863
Can somebody explain
this to me?
1464
01:34:23,831 --> 01:34:26,967
Can somebody explain this to me?
1465
01:34:28,169 --> 01:34:29,336
You tell me.
1466
01:34:30,639 --> 01:34:32,137
Hell, I think we all died
a little bit that day.
1467
01:34:32,139 --> 01:34:33,240
You tell me!
1468
01:34:34,308 --> 01:34:36,977
Mistakes were made.
This is probably one of 'em.
1469
01:34:37,444 --> 01:34:40,078
We went to see
General Hackmeyer at the VA.
1470
01:34:40,080 --> 01:34:41,849
He verifies your story, sir.
1471
01:34:42,082 --> 01:34:45,518
Senator, please,
it's my job to protect you.
1472
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:48,289
- Protect me from what, Carl?
- From everything.
1473
01:34:52,527 --> 01:34:55,062
Usually we're judged
by what we do.
1474
01:34:56,964 --> 01:34:59,099
But I find
that what we don't do...
1475
01:34:59,900 --> 01:35:00,801
is what haunts us.
1476
01:35:02,036 --> 01:35:03,137
Here's the plan.
1477
01:35:04,338 --> 01:35:07,908
We're gonna roll the dice.
We're gonna go with the truth.
1478
01:35:09,143 --> 01:35:12,880
No matter how uncommon
or uncomfortable that may be.
1479
01:35:13,380 --> 01:35:17,849
Mr. Chairman,
I refer you to S2549,
1480
01:35:17,851 --> 01:35:22,223
Page 44, Title 5,
Military Personnel Policy,
1481
01:35:22,890 --> 01:35:25,991
- Subtitle E, Other Matters.
- Yes?
1482
01:35:25,993 --> 01:35:29,361
This amendment authorizes
a posthumous Medal of Honor
1483
01:35:29,363 --> 01:35:32,933
for Air Force Staff Sergeant
William H. Pitsenbarger...
1484
01:35:34,001 --> 01:35:37,236
for conspicuous gallantry
in action in Vietnam,
1485
01:35:37,238 --> 01:35:40,540
11 April 1966,
during Operation Abilene.
1486
01:35:40,542 --> 01:35:42,343
Mr. Chairman, point of order.
1487
01:35:43,077 --> 01:35:44,111
The chair recognizes
1488
01:35:45,179 --> 01:35:46,380
the distinguished gentleman
from North Carolina.
1489
01:35:47,616 --> 01:35:49,948
The rules of this committee
prohibit authorization language
1490
01:35:49,950 --> 01:35:52,284
to be included
in this Appropriations Bill.
1491
01:35:52,286 --> 01:35:53,252
Will the chair yield?
1492
01:35:53,254 --> 01:35:55,887
Chair apologizes
to the gentleman from Ohio,
1493
01:35:55,889 --> 01:35:57,422
but this committee
has much business
1494
01:35:57,424 --> 01:35:59,358
before it today
and so we must move on.
1495
01:35:59,360 --> 01:36:00,427
Mr. Chairman,
1496
01:36:01,696 --> 01:36:02,394
- I sincerely appreciate that...
- Mr. Chairman.
1497
01:36:02,396 --> 01:36:04,863
...but it should be obvious
1498
01:36:04,865 --> 01:36:05,764
that there is absolutely nothing
in this amendment...
1499
01:36:05,766 --> 01:36:08,400
Uh, the Vietnam War was over
long ago.
1500
01:36:08,402 --> 01:36:11,338
- I know that, Bob. I was there.
- Maybe you should take a rest.
1501
01:36:12,439 --> 01:36:14,973
Stop kicking that dead horse.
1502
01:36:14,975 --> 01:36:16,308
Gentlemen,
this is a point of order.
1503
01:36:16,310 --> 01:36:17,878
I'm sorry. We must move on.
1504
01:36:19,146 --> 01:36:21,148
The Chair recognizes
the lady from Florida.
1505
01:36:21,348 --> 01:36:23,150
Oh, yes,
thank you, Mr. Chairman.
1506
01:36:26,153 --> 01:36:28,020
Senator, what the hell happened
in there?
1507
01:36:28,022 --> 01:36:29,121
The distinguished gentleman
1508
01:36:29,123 --> 01:36:30,489
from North Carolina
shut us down.
1509
01:36:30,491 --> 01:36:32,527
- That's what the hell happened.
- Just like that?
1510
01:36:32,993 --> 01:36:34,493
Look, it's payback.
1511
01:36:34,495 --> 01:36:37,162
I harpooned a tobacco subsidy
at his last session.
1512
01:36:37,164 --> 01:36:39,398
Unfortunately,
he's ranking member,
1513
01:36:39,400 --> 01:36:41,302
so there's not a lot I can do
about it.
1514
01:36:42,136 --> 01:36:43,335
But I promise you,
1515
01:36:43,337 --> 01:36:46,407
I will get this
in next year's bill.
1516
01:36:46,608 --> 01:36:48,006
Hopefully by that time,
1517
01:36:48,008 --> 01:36:49,441
the distinguished gentleman
will be dead.
1518
01:36:49,443 --> 01:36:51,209
So will Pitsenbarger's father.
1519
01:36:51,211 --> 01:36:53,247
- What?
- He's dying, sir.
1520
01:36:55,149 --> 01:36:58,352
Ah, Jesus. I didn't know
about that. I'm sorry.
1521
01:36:59,186 --> 01:37:02,389
I'm truly sorry.
1522
01:37:07,261 --> 01:37:08,495
So that's it?
1523
01:37:09,664 --> 01:37:11,531
Unless you got a
tobacco subsidy
1524
01:37:11,533 --> 01:37:14,335
to horse-trade with the senator
from North Carolina.
1525
01:37:15,537 --> 01:37:16,970
What about those men?
1526
01:37:19,273 --> 01:37:20,207
What about Pits?
1527
01:37:22,042 --> 01:37:24,311
Holt says he'll get it
on the bill next year.
1528
01:37:27,448 --> 01:37:28,583
And Frank?
1529
01:37:31,985 --> 01:37:34,355
I can't cure cancer, Tara.
1530
01:37:37,458 --> 01:37:40,461
If I push this any harder,
I really will end my career.
1531
01:37:47,234 --> 01:37:49,470
- It's interesting.
- What?
1532
01:37:50,672 --> 01:37:52,204
In 12 years,
1533
01:37:52,206 --> 01:37:55,342
I have never seen you
back off of anything.
1534
01:37:56,578 --> 01:37:57,878
I'm scared.
1535
01:38:08,055 --> 01:38:10,391
Fear is good.
1536
01:38:11,291 --> 01:38:13,360
Fear is a survival instinct.
1537
01:38:14,696 --> 01:38:17,231
You're supposed to be afraid.
1538
01:38:19,299 --> 01:38:20,467
Use it.
1539
01:38:30,377 --> 01:38:32,210
You turned down
a significant
1540
01:38:32,212 --> 01:38:34,214
career opportunity
to finish this.
1541
01:38:36,651 --> 01:38:39,317
You figure out
why four-star generals
1542
01:38:39,319 --> 01:38:41,019
and presidents
would trade legacies
1543
01:38:41,021 --> 01:38:42,256
for a medal?
1544
01:38:46,026 --> 01:38:48,360
Because they know
that guys like Pitsenbarger
1545
01:38:48,362 --> 01:38:50,164
don't do what they do for them.
1546
01:38:52,332 --> 01:38:53,635
They do it for each other.
1547
01:38:55,169 --> 01:38:56,437
A life for a life.
1548
01:38:57,539 --> 01:38:58,706
That's big stuff.
1549
01:39:02,109 --> 01:39:04,011
There are worse things
that can happen to a man
1550
01:39:04,244 --> 01:39:06,280
than getting killed in a war.
1551
01:39:06,480 --> 01:39:07,515
Like?
1552
01:39:07,715 --> 01:39:10,050
Like losing men,
1553
01:39:10,552 --> 01:39:11,719
losing a child,
1554
01:39:12,620 --> 01:39:13,621
a father...
1555
01:39:14,556 --> 01:39:15,590
having to live with that.
1556
01:39:18,292 --> 01:39:20,595
You think a piece of ribbon
is gonna change that?
1557
01:39:30,404 --> 01:39:32,105
I'm gonna go public
with the story.
1558
01:39:33,240 --> 01:39:34,308
I'm gonna name names.
1559
01:39:36,076 --> 01:39:37,510
Shaming Appropriations
1560
01:39:37,512 --> 01:39:39,344
in front
of the Washington press corps
1561
01:39:39,346 --> 01:39:41,547
on the eve
of a national election
1562
01:39:41,549 --> 01:39:44,316
sounds a little dangerous.
1563
01:39:44,318 --> 01:39:46,487
Yeah.
1564
01:39:47,722 --> 01:39:49,189
But it'll be great television.
1565
01:39:53,427 --> 01:39:54,361
Well done.
1566
01:39:55,329 --> 01:39:56,330
Thank you
1567
01:39:57,765 --> 01:39:58,831
Mr. Huffman,
1568
01:39:58,833 --> 01:40:00,365
I'm Mary,
the supervising producer.
1569
01:40:00,367 --> 01:40:01,767
We're gonna put a wire on you.
1570
01:40:01,769 --> 01:40:03,603
- Okay.
- We have you on split screens,
1571
01:40:03,605 --> 01:40:05,270
so the anchors are gonna be able
to hear you,
1572
01:40:05,272 --> 01:40:06,839
but they're not gonna be able
to see you.
1573
01:40:06,841 --> 01:40:08,576
- Okay.
- All right, come with me.
1574
01:40:13,581 --> 01:40:15,148
Dad, are you nervous?
1575
01:40:16,116 --> 01:40:18,485
I am. But I'm not afraid.
1576
01:40:25,325 --> 01:40:26,291
All set.
1577
01:40:26,293 --> 01:40:27,492
In an unusual move today,
1578
01:40:27,494 --> 01:40:29,695
a member of the Department
of the Air Force,
1579
01:40:29,697 --> 01:40:31,463
a gentleman named
Scott Huffman,
1580
01:40:31,465 --> 01:40:32,598
went before cameras
1581
01:40:32,600 --> 01:40:35,501
to accuse high-ranking senators
and their staffs
1582
01:40:35,503 --> 01:40:38,303
of playing political football
with military valor.
1583
01:40:38,305 --> 01:40:39,739
...long-awaited HR Defense
1584
01:40:39,741 --> 01:40:42,407
Appropriations Bill,
it stalled in the Senate
1585
01:40:42,409 --> 01:40:44,577
when a Pentagon staffer
accused lawmakers...
1586
01:40:44,579 --> 01:40:46,579
...the bill,
including a recommendation
1587
01:40:46,581 --> 01:40:50,248
for a posthumous Medal of Honor
for William H. Pitsenbarger
1588
01:40:50,250 --> 01:40:51,684
is now heading
to the Oval Office,
1589
01:40:51,686 --> 01:40:53,318
and President Clinton...
1590
01:40:53,320 --> 01:40:55,055
...is expected to sign
that bill.
1591
01:41:03,798 --> 01:41:05,430
An airman
named Bill Pitsenbarger
1592
01:41:05,432 --> 01:41:07,633
will be awarded
the Medal of Honor today
1593
01:41:07,635 --> 01:41:09,301
for his service in Vietnam.
1594
01:41:09,303 --> 01:41:10,302
He gave his country
1595
01:41:10,304 --> 01:41:11,839
what Abraham Lincoln
once called,
1596
01:41:12,406 --> 01:41:14,576
"The last full measure."
1597
01:41:24,251 --> 01:41:25,417
I'll be right back.
1598
01:41:37,264 --> 01:41:38,332
Hey.
1599
01:41:40,835 --> 01:41:42,436
It's good to see you, man.
1600
01:41:42,670 --> 01:41:43,871
It's good to be here.
1601
01:41:46,507 --> 01:41:48,610
So... ...the, uh...
1602
01:41:50,177 --> 01:41:51,579
lady in red, behind me...
1603
01:41:53,413 --> 01:41:54,749
she's, um...
1604
01:41:55,850 --> 01:41:57,752
the address on this letter.
1605
01:42:22,476 --> 01:42:25,345
Bill gave me this.
He asked me to give it to you.
1606
01:42:30,250 --> 01:42:31,786
I'm sorry it took so long.
1607
01:42:38,893 --> 01:42:39,927
Thank you.
1608
01:42:43,531 --> 01:42:44,532
Thank you.
1609
01:42:55,843 --> 01:42:59,279
Amid the gloom
and waste of war,
1610
01:42:59,747 --> 01:43:02,550
we occasionally witness
a brief but...
1611
01:43:03,618 --> 01:43:06,319
brilliant flash
of personal valor
1612
01:43:06,554 --> 01:43:10,257
so radiant it becomes impossible
to ignore.
1613
01:43:10,658 --> 01:43:15,027
Such is the heroism
of William Hart Pitsenbarger,
1614
01:43:15,029 --> 01:43:17,899
who was moved
by higher angels of duty,
1615
01:43:18,465 --> 01:43:20,733
courage and sacrifice
1616
01:43:20,735 --> 01:43:23,602
to make, on behalf of men
he did not know
1617
01:43:23,604 --> 01:43:26,672
and a nation that until now
did not know his story,
1618
01:43:26,674 --> 01:43:29,777
the most supreme sacrifice.
1619
01:43:31,478 --> 01:43:33,380
Frank, Alice...
1620
01:43:34,414 --> 01:43:37,451
on behalf of the President
of the United States of America,
1621
01:43:38,052 --> 01:43:41,589
in the name of Congress,
for conspicuous gallantry,
1622
01:43:41,989 --> 01:43:44,692
extreme valor and intrepidity,
1623
01:43:45,492 --> 01:43:47,026
at the risk of his own life,
1624
01:43:47,028 --> 01:43:49,697
above and beyond
the call of duty,
1625
01:43:50,464 --> 01:43:51,899
I award the Medal of Honor
1626
01:43:52,299 --> 01:43:56,436
to Airman First Class
William Hart Pitsenbarger.
1627
01:44:30,337 --> 01:44:33,739
Uh, now, this...
This isn't in your program,
1628
01:44:33,741 --> 01:44:37,310
but if you could give me
just a moment more of your time.
1629
01:44:39,547 --> 01:44:42,550
I'd like to recognize some guys
1630
01:44:43,483 --> 01:44:45,520
who are gonna hate me
for doing it.
1631
01:44:47,121 --> 01:44:48,721
Now, we have with us today
1632
01:44:48,723 --> 01:44:50,992
some of the veterans
of Operation Abilene,
1633
01:44:52,593 --> 01:44:56,063
Charlie Company,
second of the 16th Infantry.
1634
01:44:56,764 --> 01:44:58,798
Now, these men
were the witnesses
1635
01:44:58,800 --> 01:45:00,733
to Bill Pitsenbarger's heroism
1636
01:45:00,735 --> 01:45:05,740
and they've worked
and worked for 32 years...
1637
01:45:07,108 --> 01:45:08,843
to see this day come.
1638
01:45:13,014 --> 01:45:14,882
Would you honor us, please,
1639
01:45:15,516 --> 01:45:18,586
by standing
and being recognized?
1640
01:45:42,143 --> 01:45:44,111
And would the airmen
of Pits's unit,
1641
01:45:44,712 --> 01:45:47,445
the Aerospace Rescue
and Recovery Service,
1642
01:45:47,447 --> 01:45:49,050
also please stand?
1643
01:45:50,885 --> 01:45:55,623
And any other PJs
from Vietnam, would you rise?
1644
01:45:58,159 --> 01:46:00,926
If there are any other
US veterans here today,
1645
01:46:00,928 --> 01:46:02,495
will you please stand?
1646
01:46:07,001 --> 01:46:09,467
If there are wives
or parents here,
1647
01:46:09,469 --> 01:46:10,370
would you stand?
1648
01:46:14,441 --> 01:46:16,508
And any children
or grandchildren,
1649
01:46:16,510 --> 01:46:17,645
would you join us?
1650
01:46:19,213 --> 01:46:21,213
And any other friends or family,
1651
01:46:21,215 --> 01:46:24,984
anyone who has been touched
or moved in any way
1652
01:46:24,986 --> 01:46:28,587
by the actions of this Medal
of Honor recipient,
1653
01:46:28,589 --> 01:46:31,058
would you also stand?
1654
01:46:39,200 --> 01:46:40,433
Look around.
1655
01:46:42,169 --> 01:46:47,440
This is the power
of what one person can do.
1656
01:47:50,004 --> 01:47:51,105
Thank you, son.
1657
01:48:00,648 --> 01:48:01,949
So you don't forget us.
1658
01:48:04,285 --> 01:48:05,619
Thank you.
1659
01:48:27,241 --> 01:48:28,976
Daddy!
1660
01:48:29,643 --> 01:48:30,644
Hey, little man.
1661
01:48:31,612 --> 01:48:33,214
- I'm glad we got to come.
- Ah, me too.
1662
01:48:34,148 --> 01:48:35,583
Where's your mom?
1663
01:48:38,886 --> 01:48:40,588
Looking good
in that uniform, Jimmy.
1664
01:48:42,990 --> 01:48:44,258
This is my son, Luke.
1665
01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:48,293
Nice to meet you, soldier.
1666
01:48:51,232 --> 01:48:52,700
I wanted to say...
1667
01:48:54,869 --> 01:48:56,270
I wanted to say thank you.
1668
01:48:59,140 --> 01:49:00,775
Understand what I'm saying, sir?
1669
01:49:02,209 --> 01:49:03,077
You're welcome, Jimmy.
1670
01:49:05,713 --> 01:49:07,882
But you really don't have
to call me sir.
1671
01:49:09,116 --> 01:49:10,117
Sure I do.
1672
01:49:11,252 --> 01:49:12,319
Why's that?
1673
01:49:14,789 --> 01:49:16,090
You earned it, sir.
1674
01:49:17,992 --> 01:49:21,796
Ah, you take care, now,
'cause it's a jungle out there.
1675
01:49:35,643 --> 01:49:36,677
What's your name?
1676
01:49:37,211 --> 01:49:39,113
- Luke.
- I'm Tommy.
1677
01:49:42,183 --> 01:49:44,618
Early on, you said...
1678
01:49:45,753 --> 01:49:47,621
there was nothing in this
for you.
1679
01:51:51,045 --> 01:51:53,178
On April 11, 1966,
1680
01:51:53,180 --> 01:51:54,815
when we took off
on that mission...
1681
01:51:56,050 --> 01:51:57,149
Pits made a statement.
1682
01:51:57,151 --> 01:51:58,485
He got on the hot mic
and he said,
1683
01:51:59,320 --> 01:52:00,219
"Boy, Captain," he said,
1684
01:52:00,221 --> 01:52:02,089
"I don't feel good
about this mission."
1685
01:52:02,456 --> 01:52:05,090
They were prepared for us,
they knew we were coming.
1686
01:52:05,092 --> 01:52:09,795
They were in, uh, ground holes,
in trees and on the ground,
1687
01:52:09,797 --> 01:52:11,296
and, uh, as we walked,
1688
01:52:11,298 --> 01:52:13,334
they just simply closed
the back door.
1689
01:52:15,869 --> 01:52:17,869
So they started calling us
1690
01:52:17,871 --> 01:52:19,338
to help them get out
the wounded.
1691
01:52:19,340 --> 01:52:21,273
And Pits said, "Let me...
Put me on the ground,
1692
01:52:21,275 --> 01:52:23,143
I can organize
this much better."
1693
01:52:23,377 --> 01:52:25,045
I said,
"I don't wanna lose you, Pits.
1694
01:52:25,580 --> 01:52:27,580
And it's hotter than hell
down there because the war
1695
01:52:27,582 --> 01:52:29,582
and the firefights going on
all the time.
1696
01:52:29,584 --> 01:52:30,784
You can hear the stuff."
1697
01:52:31,185 --> 01:52:32,186
So down he went.
1698
01:52:33,320 --> 01:52:35,454
My initial thought on seeing him
rappelling out of, uh,
1699
01:52:35,456 --> 01:52:37,389
uh, coming out
of the helicopter, I'm thinking,
1700
01:52:37,391 --> 01:52:38,924
"What in the hell
is this guy thinking
1701
01:52:38,926 --> 01:52:40,127
coming down here?"
1702
01:52:41,563 --> 01:52:42,528
There's not a one of us
1703
01:52:42,530 --> 01:52:44,530
that wouldn't have left there
if we could.
1704
01:52:44,532 --> 01:52:45,931
And the only guy
that could leave
1705
01:52:45,933 --> 01:52:47,301
was Pitsenbarger, and he didn't.
1706
01:52:47,968 --> 01:52:50,838
Marty Kroah was on the ground
and he sent for me,
1707
01:52:51,238 --> 01:52:52,239
because, um...
1708
01:52:53,575 --> 01:52:56,277
he said, "I want somebody
to know what Pits did,
1709
01:52:56,611 --> 01:52:59,013
so that it gets reported back,
in case I die."
1710
01:52:59,280 --> 01:53:01,549
At that time
Marty had been shot five times.
1711
01:53:02,082 --> 01:53:03,917
When we found out
the next morning...
1712
01:53:04,885 --> 01:53:06,954
that he had been killed,
it was just...
1713
01:53:13,260 --> 01:53:15,029
It was a sad time for everybody.
1714
01:53:18,566 --> 01:53:20,535
To me, uh, this is one
of the most,
1715
01:53:21,201 --> 01:53:23,969
uh, important things I did
as Secretary of the Air Force.
1716
01:53:23,971 --> 01:53:26,038
Well, it should have been
handled by itself.
1717
01:53:26,040 --> 01:53:27,308
It was just a fundamental wrong.
1718
01:53:27,509 --> 01:53:28,974
It was wrong
to Bill Pitsenbarger,
1719
01:53:28,976 --> 01:53:29,910
it was wrong to his family.
1720
01:53:30,811 --> 01:53:32,079
Wrong to the airmen
who supported him.
1721
01:53:32,313 --> 01:53:33,178
When you think about it,
1722
01:53:33,180 --> 01:53:35,447
uh, it is extraordinary
to have people
1723
01:53:35,449 --> 01:53:38,185
who worked for 30 years
to get this done.
1724
01:53:38,520 --> 01:53:40,886
I mean, these are people
who had their own lives,
1725
01:53:40,888 --> 01:53:42,856
wives, children, grandchildren,
1726
01:53:43,123 --> 01:53:44,657
and this was a passion for them,
1727
01:53:44,659 --> 01:53:46,460
and I just thought
that was extraordinary.
1728
01:53:46,927 --> 01:53:50,397
And I just... I felt...
And... And I owed it to Pits,
1729
01:53:50,898 --> 01:53:53,065
and I wouldn't...
And not just myself,
1730
01:53:53,067 --> 01:53:54,536
there's other people
who feel the same way,
1731
01:53:55,035 --> 01:53:57,938
basically, our whole crew.
We owe it to him.
1732
01:53:59,940 --> 01:54:02,307
Bill's blood is mixed
with ours forever.
1733
01:54:02,309 --> 01:54:04,011
He... He is our brother.
1734
01:54:06,615 --> 01:54:11,615
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