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Everyone is intimidated by a shark. Become
a Card Shark AMERICASCARDROOM:COM
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15 February, 1972.
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New orders - Survivor Assistance Officer,
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escorting the body of a lieutenant back home - a tough but brief duty.
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TRAIN SCREECHES TO A HALT
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I'm not sure I'm very good at this. Rockville! >
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Especially in this case - I never even knew the man.
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Yes, ma'am.
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What can I say to his family?
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What can I do that will make any difference?
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All aboard! >
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Mr and Mrs Johnson? Yes.I'm Major Laird,
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the Survivor Assistance Officer.
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I've brought your son home.
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The Army extends its deepest sympathy for the loss of your son.
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His country is eternally grateful for his sacrifice.
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I'm here to do whatever I can to help you.
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If you want a military burial with full honours...
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Thank you. We want to keep it simple.
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When do you plan to have the funeral?
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Today.
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Today?At noon.
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Oh!
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# What a friend we have in Jesus
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# All our sins and griefs to bear
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# What a privilege to carry
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# Everything to God in prayer
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# Oh, what peace we often forfeit
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# Oh, what needless pains we bear
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# All because we do not carry
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# Everything to God in prayer
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# Everything to God in prayer. #
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ALL: Amen.
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Praise be to God...
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..for the power of music,
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to be able to lift our voices
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above the sorrow of this moment.
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We've said a lot about Dwyte Johnson here, this morning.
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We all know deeds, more than words, make the difference in this world.
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You know where the funeral is,
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you know that you are all invited.
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I hope to see you there.
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Dwyte...
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..was killed in war.
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Let us go out of here,
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in the spirit of love and peace.
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Amen.
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Pall-bearers.
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< All rise, please.
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< Proceed out.
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You must be the officer Ada told me about.Yes, ma'am, I'm Major Laird.
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Eudora McAlister, a family friend.
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I'm driving them to the cemetery. Would you care to come with us? Thank you.My car's out in front.
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Mrs McAlister. >
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Mrs McAlister. What... what is going on here?
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A funeral. Just as I told you.
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You told me it was a friend. Dwyte Johnson IS a friend.
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Dwyte Johnson. That boy can't be buried here!It's their plot.
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We own it legal.
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Mrs McAlister, did you really give a gravesite to these folks?
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No. < We bought it.
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Fair and square. How much d'you pay for it? >
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It's private property, Mr Oster.
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Our son died for his country, and has a right to be buried in any part of it.
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Any part but right here.
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Luther, Ada, you've got a nice casket there.
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Why don't you bury Dwyte where he belongs?
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People belong where they want to be, not where they're told to be.
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Dwyte loved this place, and he loved this town in spite of everything.
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He deserves to be buried right here.
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Look, I'm sure we can work this out.
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I'll call my commanding officer.
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We don't need any Federal intervention. This is a local affair.
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Let me read you something.
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"Within the city limits of Rockville, Georgia,
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"burial is limited to the caucasian race, or their ashes thereof."
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Now, folks, that's the law, I'm sorry, and I'm here to enforce it.
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So, let's take the casket and put it back on the hearse.
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How can you do that to these people?
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They are as much a part of Rockville as anybody.
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You're a good one to talk about Rockville!
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You're gonna ruin this town!
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I think this has gone far enough.
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Let's move on before this turns into something ugly.
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Something ugly!
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What would you call this?
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BELL RINGS
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I'm sorry if this turn of events took you by surprise, Major.
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We had to try it directly
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without telling any more people than necessary.
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This won't be solved overnight. How long are you here for? Three or four days,
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but I'll stay as long as necessary.
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BELL STOPS RINGING
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What do you want me to do now, Ada?
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Could we keep him at the church for a spell?Sure. We'll take care of him.
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Really enjoyed that and I wanna catch you for lunch some day, OK?OK.
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Enjoyed talking to you.
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Excuse me, Chief.
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I'd like to talk to you about today. There's not too much to say, Major.
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What do you want?I'd like your help in getting Lt Johnson buried in that cemetery.Can't do that.
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So, his body is just supposed to hang in limbo?
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The place for him is about five miles out of town with his own people.
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Out of town?
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Don't blame me. It began long before my time. I just keep the peace here.
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Take a look around, this is a good town with good people.
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I watched Dwyte grow up here.
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I know what you're thinking, and rightly so. It isn't the best end,
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but, unfortunately, he died before this town was ready for this.
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Maybe if he'd lived a little longer...
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A little longer! This is the 1970s!
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Our schools are integrated and our people get along,
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maybe not perfectly, but they get along OK.
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I got things I gotta take care of.
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I did call my commanding officer.
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The army won't rest until Lt Johnson gets his due.
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The army might do better by putting that boy in a veteran cemetery.
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This was his home. His parents want him here!I'm sorry.
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You could go to court over this, you know that?That could take years.
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Do you want his parents to wait that long before they can lay him to rest? Do you?
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I can't help you, sir. You tried, you did your duty.
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Won't you let it drop?
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And that's the limit to what the army can do?
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After that it goes to the US Attorney, right?
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OK. Thank you for the information.
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Yeah.
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Milk or sugar, Major? A little milk, please.
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I had that book out earlier.
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That boy left us a lot of memories.
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You must have been very proud of him.
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Mrs Johnson...
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..when I first realised what you and your husband were trying to do...
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..I must admit I was a little surprised,
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but my orders were to render all reasonable assistance.
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I'm still here to do that...
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..even though it's taking a little longer than normally.
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But...
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Well, I've come to see what you're up against here.
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On top of all your grief, are you sure you wanna take this on?
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All my grief?
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I don't know yet how much grief's in me.
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How many tears.
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I thought I used them all up on that first night, but I didn't.
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For the rest of my life I may not reach the bottom of that river.
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But my grief, my husband's...
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..is no excuse not to do the right thing.
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You said you had no children?
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Er, no, ma'am... not yet.
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I hope you do.
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They're a blessing.
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They're such a blessing.
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Some folks, they're ready for that kind of thing, but I wasn't.
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Everything Dwyte did was such a surprise -
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walking early, talking of Blues Street,
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and playing ball like that.
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And bringing home those grade cards.
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Mr Johnson and I went to school,
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but we ain't never brought home no grades like that.
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He was a wonderment.
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You know, sometimes we'd sit and try to figure out where he'd got it all from.
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What great-grandma or grandpa had that kind of a mind.
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And when you've got a child like that,
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sometimes you don't even feel like you're the mother, you feel like...
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..you brought a gift to the world.
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A message.
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Even you yourself don't understand it - not all of it.
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And now he's dead.
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I think I can say that now.
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But he's not gone.
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Not unless... they take him out of this town.
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A town he brought honour to.
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It would be like turning time around and saying he was never here at all.
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And we can't do that, Major Laird.
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So, no matter...
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..what the grief, or how much trouble...
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..we just can't do that.
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D'you read this editorial, Jo?
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Clifford, you know I don't read it until I get you clowns out of here.
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It's about that cemetery incident.
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Listen to this. "A white woman owning a plot in the town cemetery
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"evidently donated it to the Johnson family..."
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Now, who do you suppose that is? Never guess in a million years.
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"..leading them to the false hope of burying their son there.
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Huh! False is right.
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D'you want anything else?No thanks.
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Do you know where I can get a paper, though?
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Great.People like that deserve what comes to 'em.
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And what is that?What?
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What's coming to 'em.
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You defending this nonsense, Henry?
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No, no. But I'm not going to attack it, either.
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The way I see it, the only way to get what you want is to go for it.
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They get those ideas from outsiders,
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or from kooks like er...
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..Eudora McAlister.
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Everything all right? Just fine, thanks.
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But how can you say that I used his casket as a political football?
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I have to.Sam Jennings, we've known each other for 50 years.
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You know I'm not a political person, I'm not a "joiner".
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You belong to the "odd-balls of the world" party.
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You may even be vice-president.
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What's so odd about helping friends? Helping your friends?
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Or are you using them to make a point?
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Listen, I thought long and hard before giving them that extra plot,
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because I knew how people like you would interpret it.
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I have to interpret it. It's my job to give people some perspective!
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Do you remember what it was like in the South in the '60s?
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Remember those mobs, the violence?
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The girl blown up in a church?
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It didn't happen here. This town got through it all right.
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Get through it? We didn't get through anything,
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if someone like Dwyte Johnson can't even be buried here.
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My God, Eudora! You... measure the world from perfection downward.
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Well, I don't.
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I measure it from chaos upward. That's the difference.
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If you don't like my paper, why not start your own? You'd be good at it.
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I don't want to start a newspaper.
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I don't even want to read one for a while - especially yours.
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You can cancel my subscription.
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Again?
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What's wrong? What happened to you?
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I remember young Sam Jennings, the idealist.
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Yeah, I remember that.
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That was a long time ago, Eudora.
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Mrs McAlister!Are you going to see the editor, too?Yes, ma'am.
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I wish I could believe it would do some good!
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PRINTING PRESS CLANGS
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SOMEBODY'S OUT THERE.
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Did you want to see me?
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I'm Sam Jennings.I'm Major Kendall Laird, Survivor Assistance Officer.
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I'm here to help the Johnsons with the burial of their son.
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And I suppose you're here to give me a piece of your mind, too.
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Sit down, Major, and go ahead.
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I just saw Mrs McAlister leave here looking mad as a cat.
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My guess is she's pretty upset about this editorial of yours.
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I didn't mention her by name.You don't have to in a town this size.
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Eudora and I go back a long time, Major.
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And over those years we've had our differences - public and private.
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But I have to say she has survived them pretty well.
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I'm not worried about her. But what about the Johnsons?
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Is this fair to them?
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It's not a question of fairness.
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It's a question of timing, the speed... Mr Jennings, this is 1972.
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Integration has been the law of the land for 15 years now.
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It may be the law of the schools, but we're talking about cemeteries.
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Where we bury our families. And that is a very personal thing here.
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Don't you think it's a personal thing to the Johnsons?
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They deserve better than this.
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Yes, maybe they do.
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But don't let this incident give you the wrong idea about our town.
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Look... Mr Jennings,
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I can see you care a lot about this town. Let me ask you a question.
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What picture flashes into your mind
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when I mention Little Rock, Arkansas?
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You saw it, didn't you?
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The photo of the little black girl clutching her books out of fear,
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being escorted into school by armed soldiers.
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Do you want Rockville to be remembered like that?
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No, I don't. But...
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If you don't want a demonstration or a Supreme Court case,
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you should give equal space in your paper for Dwyte Johnson.
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His men have put him up for a Silver Star...
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..for saving their lives.
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Are those white boys? Most of them, yes.
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Isn't that a hook for your story?
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If it's a story, yes. If it's a sermon, no.
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Can you... get to those men?
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Me?
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You're the journalist, Mr Jennings.
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Don't worry about that, Major.
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You bring me hard information, and I'll write the story.
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Do you mean that?Damn right.
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And I'll print it. Fair and square.
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It's a deal.
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Colonel Holme, your original assignment was a routine matter,
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but it's turned into real... Well, a very uncertain situation.
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I want to help, but I don't know what to do.
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There just don't seem to be any guidelines.
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What are the feelings in the town?
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I don't know exactly, sir.
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Seem to be people on both sides.
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The local editor wants to interview those who put him up for the medal.
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Is this so your activity doesn't stir up more controversy?No, sir.
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In doing right, the army's got to be concerned about community relations.
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Rockville's just 60 miles away.
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I'm very conscious of that, sir. But the Johnsons are very determined.
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But you must proceed with caution. Yes, sir.Keep in touch.
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Thank you, sir.
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GUNSHOTS
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Range clear on the left?
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Range clear on the right?
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The range is now clear!
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Sergeant Erskine?
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At ease, Sergeant.
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Can you give me a minute?Yes, sir. Sergeant Bradford, can you take over?
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< OK, take five.
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It's about Lt Johnson. What do you want to know?
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I'm trying to help him out.With all due respect, Major, he's dead.
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Ain't nothing anyone can do for him now.Well, actually, there is.
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His town doesn't want him buried in a white cemetery. You guys can help. You put him up for a medal, right?
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Is this an official investigation?
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No, I understood Colonel Holmby was gonna brief you guys on this.
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Yes, sir. I just wanna be sure. What do you need to know?
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Well, the man died with honours. I'd like to know more about that.
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Sure.
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Well... he must have been a good officer, right?
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He wasn't afraid of nothing. And he didn't look for combat, but...
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..he sure had a tendency to charge right on in.
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Sounds like you have a little problem with that.
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Sir, do you like getting shot at?No.
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Me neither.But, you like him?Yeah.
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Did you have any feelings about serving under a black officer?
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Not really, all officers look alike to me.
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A good Joe. The day he saved your lives...
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..what can you tell me about that? Mainly I remember the rain, monsoons.
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We got pinned down in crossfire near the river.
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We couldn't get any air. Suddenly all hell breaks loose with the mortars.
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It happened so fast. Before we knew it, he was dead.
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The impact pushed him into the river.
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He got a grenade off before he died then it went quiet.
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Quiet?Yeah. Major, Nam's funny that way.
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What about the man? What was he like?
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I can't say I got to know him well, sir. Officers keep their distance.
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There must have been something...
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That's all that comes to mind, unless you have any particular questions.
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Will that be it, Major?
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Yeah, that's all, Sergeant.
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Yes, sir!
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Sergeant Booker T Douglas?Yes, sir.
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Sergeant, come on down here, will you, please?
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I'm looking for information about Lt Dwyte Johnson.
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Could you be more specific, sir? Mind if I record this?If you want.
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I'm talking to everyone in the unit. This is Booker T Douglas.
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You men put him up for a medal, is that right?That's right.
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I was wondering... did you and he have a special kind of relationship?
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In what way, sir? Most of the unit was white.
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No, sir, he treated me just like the others.
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And how was that?Good.
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He wasn't one to get very chummy with the men, sir.
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They respected him, right?Yes, sir.
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Can you tell me about...? I want to get hold of the personal side.
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Can't help you there, sir.Why not?
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Can't say I ever got to know him. He was a brother, but he was an officer.
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No fraternisation. You dig what I'm saying, sir?
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But he was a good Joe. That's what they tell me.
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What do you remember about the day he was killed?
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It was raining. Had been for days. My feet were rotting in my boots.
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We got caught in the crossfire with Charlie.
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Couldn't get no air support. Well... then all hell broke loose.
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And when it was over...
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The Lieutenant was dead.
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He fell in the river.
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Will that be all, sir?
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Yeah, that's all. Thank you, Sergeant.
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JET FLIES OVERHEAD
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Specialist Porter?
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Yeah.Is it Kevin Porter who served under Lt Dwyte Johnson?
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Er... just a second. Let me secure these weapons.
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Sir?Can I speak to you for a moment in the office, Specialist?Yes, sir.
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I heard someone was asking about the Lieutenant.Oh, yeah?Er... grapevine.
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We've got three phones - one to contact the army and the other two to keep us sane.I know what you mean.
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So, how can I help, sir? Well, it's about the Lieutenant.
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His family has been having trouble with a few people in his home-town,
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and I thought maybe your feelings about the Lieutenant could help them change a few minds back there.
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You don't mind if I record this, do you?No, sir.
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This is Porter. PORTER COUGHS
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What do you remember most about the Lieutenant?
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He tried to maintain more discipline in the field than most officers.
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Guess that was West Point talking.
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How did you feel about that?
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Oh, it was for our own good. He was great. A real good Joe.
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What did you say?
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A real good Joe.
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How did you feel when he was killed?
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There was nobody that died I didn't feel for. And that goes for the Lieutenent.
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That last day...
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let me know what he did to save the unit.
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Well, we were... trapped in a crossfire.
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And nobody knew how to get out.
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It was wet.
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It had been raining for 15 days.
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We radioed for air support, but there wasn't any.
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Then from out of nowhere...
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it happened.
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What happened?
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All hell broke loose.
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DOUGLAS: 'Then all hell broke loose.'
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BRADFORD: '..The mortars. Then, all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose.'
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BRADFORD: '..Black to me. A good Joe.'
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DOUGLAS: 'Dig what I'm saying, sir? He was a good Joe.'
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KNOCKING
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Is this the McAlister residence? Yes, come in.Thank you.
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Mrs M went down to the kitchen. I'm Eleanor Clark.Kendall Laird.
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This way, please.Thank you.
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Major Laird.
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Are you always this punctual? Yes, ma'am, I'm well trained.
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Please sit down.Thank you.
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Eleanor goes to University in Atlanta, but when she's here she helps me in this big old house.
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Tea?Yes, please.
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00:34:40,461 --> 00:34:48,222
Won't you stay?No, thank you. I have to go.Eleanor, this is the officer I was telling you about.
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His assignment is to help the Johnsons bury their son, however they choose.
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00:34:54,742 --> 00:34:58,903
I think you know my orders better than I do.
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00:34:58,943 --> 00:35:01,423
No. You seem to be conscientious.
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00:35:01,463 --> 00:35:04,023
Help yourself to cream and sugar.
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00:35:04,063 --> 00:35:07,663
Would the army be willing to take this to court?
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Eleanor is a law student.
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I hope it doesn't come to that. Or it doesn't drag on.
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I worry for the Johnsons.
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And for you Mrs M. There are all kinds of people here.
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Some of MY relatives don't agree with the Johnsons. But then they never met Dwyte. We went to school together.
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He's partly the reason I went to law school.
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He never had much time to socialise.
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Ada was worried about him in that way. He was always pushing himself.
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Even when he was very young.
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I'd better go. Do you mind me using your car?
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00:35:48,026 --> 00:35:53,106
Heavens, no! But check the oil. She's consuming great quantities.
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00:35:53,146 --> 00:35:57,707
One of these days I'm gonna get in there and find the trouble.
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Nice to meet you, Major.
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00:36:00,907 --> 00:36:03,467
Same to you, Eleanor.
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00:36:04,747 --> 00:36:09,548
So, you've known the Johnsons for a long time?Yes, a very long time.
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Ada's mother was a midwife. She delivered my only child.
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So, our families are connected in life and death.
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My son, Alban...
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..died in the early days in Vietnam.
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00:36:27,869 --> 00:36:31,309
And Ada was a real comfort to me then.
427
00:36:31,349 --> 00:36:34,989
It must have been very difficult for you.
428
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A great preacher once said,
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"Be kind.
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"Nearly everyone is fighting a hard battle."
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And not just on the battlefield.
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So!
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Why did you want to meet with me, Major Laird?
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00:36:53,231 --> 00:36:55,951
I'm concerned about the Johnsons.
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00:36:55,991 --> 00:37:01,631
You must have realised the plot was going to create a schism in the town.
436
00:37:01,671 --> 00:37:05,231
I did it to heal a schism.
437
00:37:05,271 --> 00:37:09,432
This goes beyond principle - it's a personal thing.
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If you had known Dwyte, you would have known what I mean. He was...
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something special.
440
00:37:16,832 --> 00:37:19,832
I keep hearing that kind of thing.
441
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Didn't he have any faults at all?
442
00:37:22,232 --> 00:37:25,313
Oh, yes. He could be demanding...
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mostly of himself.
444
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But...
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he shone. Everybody could see it.
446
00:37:34,273 --> 00:37:38,834
You see... nothing was impossible to Dwyte.
447
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Everything was a possibility.
448
00:37:41,554 --> 00:37:46,954
When he was eight... he went to the library to borrow a book.
449
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But the librarian wouldn't let him have it due to his race.
450
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So he said he would wait... until she changed her mind.
451
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And he did. He waited!
452
00:37:59,235 --> 00:38:02,595
All day long he stood at that desk waiting!
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Huh! That poor woman - she was so unnerved by the end of the day.
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If she hadn't been so decrepit, she might have tossed him out.
455
00:38:12,236 --> 00:38:15,796
But closing time came and there he was,
456
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and, I think, when five o'clock rolled around, she was so worn down she just gave him the book.
457
00:38:22,797 --> 00:38:25,637
So, if it had been anyone but Dwyte,
458
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I probably wouldn't have given up that plot.
459
00:38:29,757 --> 00:38:34,157
But, my goodness, if he can't turn tradition around,
460
00:38:34,197 --> 00:38:38,438
we may have to wait another thirty years!
461
00:38:38,478 --> 00:38:43,318
And, of course, Ada and Luther aren't gonna budge.
462
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Sometimes it takes
463
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one person making one move
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to open people's eyes.
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It's HARD to be that one person.
466
00:38:55,159 --> 00:38:58,159
But when the time comes -
467
00:38:58,199 --> 00:39:00,359
and you know it -
468
00:39:00,399 --> 00:39:05,400
you just say, "I guess this is it. It's me that has to do this."
469
00:39:41,082 --> 00:39:42,642
What?
470
00:39:45,002 --> 00:39:50,123
I'm just remembering that time he climbed up to the church belfry and got stuck.
471
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Do you remember that?Mm-hm.
472
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Climbed up there, couldn't get down, was getting hollered because he know he didn't have no business up there.
473
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Then they came and rang the bell for church vespers.
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Oh! HE LAUGHS
475
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He had such a headache.
476
00:40:15,524 --> 00:40:19,405
Every time I started balling about it, I just cracked up.
477
00:40:22,685 --> 00:40:24,645
Oh, that boy.
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00:40:27,925 --> 00:40:29,285
That boy.
479
00:40:42,726 --> 00:40:45,326
Specialist Oliver?
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Yes, sir.That's a pretty good shot. Do you do that every time?
481
00:40:51,167 --> 00:40:54,287
At ease, Specialist.
482
00:40:56,407 --> 00:40:58,767
You expected me, didn't you?
483
00:40:58,807 --> 00:41:04,688
Sir, before we begin, I would like to know what my rights are.
484
00:41:04,728 --> 00:41:08,128
Why do you think you need to know your rights?
485
00:41:08,168 --> 00:41:11,848
Sir, unless you inform me, I won't co-operate.
486
00:41:11,888 --> 00:41:16,608
This isn't an investigation. It's an informal talk about Lt Johnson.
487
00:41:16,648 --> 00:41:22,169
Do I understand, sir, I don't have to answer questions?Yeah, that's right.
488
00:41:22,209 --> 00:41:24,409
May I be dismissed?
489
00:41:27,609 --> 00:41:31,849
So, you won't discuss Lt Johnson with me?Correct, sir.
490
00:41:31,889 --> 00:41:38,490
May I ask why not? Sir, I request a lawyer is present before I say another word.
491
00:41:45,130 --> 00:41:48,651
Why don't you go back to your game, Oliver?
492
00:42:11,092 --> 00:42:14,572
SOUNDTRACK MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
493
00:42:47,375 --> 00:42:51,215
BRADFORD: 'He wasn't afraid of nothing...'
494
00:42:51,255 --> 00:42:54,495
DOUGLAS: 'He fell in the river.'
495
00:42:54,535 --> 00:42:57,735
BRADFORD: '..Before anyone knew, he was dead.'
496
00:42:57,775 --> 00:43:03,776
BRADFORD: 'Impact. ..Threw him head first into the river.'
497
00:43:09,296 --> 00:43:12,296
Remember "Stinky" Gilroy?
498
00:43:12,336 --> 00:43:15,337
The minister's son, right.
499
00:43:15,377 --> 00:43:19,777
He had it all figured out - one of those 20-year guys.
500
00:43:19,817 --> 00:43:24,617
Calculated his retirement fund, knew just what he was gonna do.
501
00:43:24,657 --> 00:43:29,977
He gets out, hangs around the house all day, drives his wife crazy.
502
00:43:30,017 --> 00:43:32,818
Finally, he takes one drink...
503
00:43:33,858 --> 00:43:37,538
Well, that's not going to happen to you, Sarge.
504
00:43:37,578 --> 00:43:42,858
Oh, no way. I got this place to keep me busy, I got no wife -
505
00:43:42,898 --> 00:43:46,259
never could find a woman dumb enough -
506
00:43:46,299 --> 00:43:50,339
and my drinking days are done. Two bottles of beer nowand I pass out.
507
00:43:50,379 --> 00:43:52,699
I envy you. I always did.
508
00:43:52,739 --> 00:43:57,859
You were the only guy I knew who I could imagine outside the army.
509
00:43:57,899 --> 00:44:00,300
You kept things in perspective.
510
00:44:00,340 --> 00:44:05,620
It's easy. When things start to get complicated, you take a nap.
511
00:44:10,660 --> 00:44:13,380
What do you do when you can't sleep?
512
00:44:14,861 --> 00:44:17,381
Then you go talk to somebody.
513
00:44:17,421 --> 00:44:20,421
BIRDS SING
514
00:44:24,901 --> 00:44:30,622
Come on, Kenny. I know you didn't come down herejust to drown worms.
515
00:44:33,102 --> 00:44:36,742
Do you know of any verified cases of fragging?
516
00:44:44,703 --> 00:44:46,703
I...
517
00:44:46,743 --> 00:44:50,063
heard men in bars bragging they did it.
518
00:44:50,103 --> 00:44:54,103
The only thing I believed was that they were lying.
519
00:44:54,143 --> 00:44:59,664
I've seen others get drunk and stay silent when the subject comes up.
520
00:44:59,704 --> 00:45:03,104
Hard to know what that silence means.
521
00:45:03,144 --> 00:45:07,504
My guess is, they did something too bad to talk about.
522
00:45:07,544 --> 00:45:12,544
If there had been a conspiracy to kill a superior officer in combat,
523
00:45:12,584 --> 00:45:15,585
and I could get one of them to crack,
524
00:45:15,625 --> 00:45:22,745
do you think I should bring them to justice, even though it would destroy the dead man's family?
525
00:45:22,785 --> 00:45:26,105
That doesn't sound like justice.
526
00:45:26,145 --> 00:45:33,706
Letting them get away with it isn't justice, either.Butjustice is an idea - it's not real.
527
00:45:33,746 --> 00:45:36,506
I mean, family, that's real.
528
00:45:36,546 --> 00:45:42,306
What's REAL is it's someone who's getting shot at whilst out there.
529
00:45:42,346 --> 00:45:47,187
If ideas don't mean anything, why be willing to lose your life over them?
530
00:45:47,227 --> 00:45:54,267
I'm not a philosopher. I don't think about it like you do. I don't think about it at all.
531
00:45:54,307 --> 00:45:58,468
And what we saw in 'Nam, what about that?
532
00:46:01,308 --> 00:46:05,108
I don't think about things - it's not my way.
533
00:46:05,148 --> 00:46:09,628
Do you wanna ask me about 'Nam? I didn't like it over there.
534
00:46:09,668 --> 00:46:14,869
I didn't have to think about it not to like it. It just came natural.
535
00:46:14,909 --> 00:46:18,109
Yeah, but you followed orders.Yes.
536
00:46:18,149 --> 00:46:23,069
You must have believed in something. In following orders!Oh, come on!
537
00:46:23,109 --> 00:46:26,950
I know you. It must have meant more to you.
538
00:46:26,990 --> 00:46:30,550
When you find out about it, why not tell me?
539
00:46:30,590 --> 00:46:34,190
Come on, Kendall! What has got under your skin?
540
00:46:36,870 --> 00:46:41,791
Well, I've gotten to know the family and I would hate to hurt them.
541
00:46:41,831 --> 00:46:46,871
I've also met the men in the unit. I KNOW they're covering something up.
542
00:46:46,911 --> 00:46:49,991
I can't think what else it could be.
543
00:46:53,471 --> 00:46:58,952
I don't know. Maybe the best thing to do would be just to drop it.
544
00:46:58,992 --> 00:47:02,992
It would certainly be the easiest thing to do.So?
545
00:47:05,072 --> 00:47:07,032
So...
546
00:47:07,072 --> 00:47:10,552
You're gonna do the hard thing, right?
547
00:47:27,514 --> 00:47:30,034
Morning, sir.
548
00:47:33,034 --> 00:47:38,274
Sir, Major Laird.Major, have a seat. You wanted ten minutes?
549
00:47:38,314 --> 00:47:41,995
Yes, sir, I'm on a special assignment,
550
00:47:42,035 --> 00:47:46,315
as an SAO helping the family of Lt Dwyte Johnson,
551
00:47:46,355 --> 00:47:49,195
and I've run into a problem.Go on.
552
00:47:49,235 --> 00:47:53,235
I've been interviewing some of his men stationed here
553
00:47:53,275 --> 00:47:56,636
and I may have uncovered a conspiracy.
554
00:47:56,676 --> 00:47:58,876
What kind, Major?
555
00:47:58,916 --> 00:48:04,996
When I asked some of them to describe the battle where he died,
556
00:48:05,036 --> 00:48:08,796
they kept repeating the same key expressions,
557
00:48:08,836 --> 00:48:11,157
as if they had rehearsed them.
558
00:48:11,197 --> 00:48:15,357
They seemed nervous when recording the interviews.
559
00:48:15,397 --> 00:48:20,397
One of them refused to talk to me without a lawyer present.Major...
560
00:48:20,437 --> 00:48:24,918
are you suggesting Lt Johnson was killed by his own men?
561
00:48:25,918 --> 00:48:31,918
These men put him up for a medal, sir. Something doesn't make sense.
562
00:48:31,958 --> 00:48:37,318
You realise it's something that's almost impossible to prove?
563
00:48:37,358 --> 00:48:40,199
Yes, sir, I do.
564
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:45,359
And have you thought of the effect this issue would have on his family?
565
00:48:45,399 --> 00:48:50,999
Yes, I've thought a lot about that. I can't imagine anything worse.
566
00:48:51,039 --> 00:48:56,960
It Johnson... was a black officer commanding a largely white unit.
567
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:01,200
Race isn't an issue in the army. Theoretically.
568
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:07,800
It's informal for now. If you find anything substantial,
569
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,281
I'll turn it over for criminal investigation.
570
00:49:11,321 --> 00:49:14,521
I know how sensitive... We both do.
571
00:49:15,121 --> 00:49:17,361
We both do.
572
00:49:17,401 --> 00:49:19,841
I want a report in three days.
573
00:49:20,881 --> 00:49:24,442
Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
574
00:49:31,442 --> 00:49:36,402
Major Laird, someone just called. Here's your message, sir.Thank you.
575
00:49:45,283 --> 00:49:47,723
Yeah, Sam Jennings, please.
576
00:49:49,203 --> 00:49:52,203
Hi, Sam!Yeah, what's up?
577
00:49:54,364 --> 00:49:56,204
What?
578
00:49:56,244 --> 00:49:58,524
Overnight they did that?
579
00:49:58,564 --> 00:50:06,004
They bought the cemetery from the Council, made it private property and now it can't be de-segregated.
580
00:50:06,044 --> 00:50:13,565
It was Oster and a couple of his cronies. They slipped it through without informing the townsfolk.
581
00:50:13,605 --> 00:50:20,405
I don't like the smell of it. They're hanging onto the status quo your editorial defended.
582
00:50:20,445 --> 00:50:24,446
No! I was not trying to defend the way things were here.
583
00:50:24,486 --> 00:50:30,886
I said I thought Rockville was not ready for change of this type at this time. But...
584
00:50:30,926 --> 00:50:32,646
I don't know.
585
00:50:32,686 --> 00:50:38,247
I've heard things said around here that I thought I would NEVER hear.
586
00:50:38,287 --> 00:50:44,287
I've even heard people agree to burying Dwyte Johnson in Rockville Cemetery.
587
00:50:44,327 --> 00:50:48,327
What I'm telling you is that the town has changed.
588
00:50:48,367 --> 00:50:52,088
Maybe just an inch. But it HAS changed.
589
00:50:52,128 --> 00:50:56,008
What does that mean for the Johnsons?
590
00:50:56,048 --> 00:50:58,288
What have you got on that story?
591
00:50:58,328 --> 00:51:02,288
There is a complication on the military side.
592
00:51:02,328 --> 00:51:05,889
What the hell does that mean? I'm under pressure,
593
00:51:05,929 --> 00:51:08,889
all of a sudden, to... er...
594
00:51:08,929 --> 00:51:13,969
do something else in the next few days.So, you're just gonna wait.
595
00:51:14,009 --> 00:51:18,009
This isn't as easy as we thought it was gonna be.Oh?
596
00:51:18,049 --> 00:51:20,650
I'm working on it, Sam.
597
00:51:20,690 --> 00:51:23,530
I'll be in touch, OK?
598
00:51:23,570 --> 00:51:25,690
OK.
599
00:51:44,051 --> 00:51:46,451
Mr Johnson!
600
00:51:47,451 --> 00:51:50,012
Major.How are you today?
601
00:51:50,052 --> 00:51:53,532
Oh, tolerable, I guess. Back to work, huh?
602
00:51:55,012 --> 00:51:57,732
Well, not exactly.Why not?
603
00:51:57,772 --> 00:52:00,452
Oh, you know...
604
00:52:00,492 --> 00:52:06,093
Fellow called me up last week about wiring up his garage.
605
00:52:06,133 --> 00:52:10,613
I go there this morning to measure up and he says, "Forget about it."
606
00:52:10,653 --> 00:52:13,053
And that's related to the cemetery?
607
00:52:14,533 --> 00:52:16,493
I don't know.
608
00:52:16,533 --> 00:52:19,534
He lives about a block away from it.
609
00:52:19,814 --> 00:52:23,494
Do you think you're gonna lose any more jobs?
610
00:52:26,254 --> 00:52:32,014
If Dwyte was buried out of town, do you think the jobs would reappear?
611
00:52:32,054 --> 00:52:34,054
HE SIGHS
612
00:52:34,094 --> 00:52:36,495
Doesn't that make you angry?
613
00:52:36,535 --> 00:52:38,535
It makes ME angry.
614
00:52:38,575 --> 00:52:41,415
Where you from, Major?
615
00:52:41,455 --> 00:52:43,015
Wisconsin.
616
00:52:43,055 --> 00:52:48,055
Well, I expect it makes you angry because you just figured it out.
617
00:52:48,095 --> 00:52:50,176
Me and Ada...
618
00:52:50,216 --> 00:52:54,536
we figured it out two or three weeks ago.
619
00:52:54,576 --> 00:52:57,536
Yes, sir, we figured it out.
620
00:52:57,576 --> 00:53:01,176
Out of all the bad things that could happen,
621
00:53:01,216 --> 00:53:03,817
we went on and did it anyway.
622
00:53:03,857 --> 00:53:06,537
Paid Mrs McAlister o15 for that plot.
623
00:53:06,577 --> 00:53:11,577
She said that's what she paid for it when she bought it.
624
00:53:13,577 --> 00:53:18,458
Kind of made us feel like we was... buying our freedom, you know,
625
00:53:18,498 --> 00:53:20,978
like in the old days.
626
00:53:22,578 --> 00:53:24,698
Look here.
627
00:53:24,738 --> 00:53:26,978
See that path there.
628
00:53:29,298 --> 00:53:32,298
Old Dwyte he...
629
00:53:32,338 --> 00:53:36,299
Well, we had a... basketball hoop up there.
630
00:53:36,339 --> 00:53:41,419
He had a fancy lay-up shot he used to practice. Over and over.
631
00:53:41,459 --> 00:53:44,459
Well, when the call came...
632
00:53:44,499 --> 00:53:47,499
said he was gone...
633
00:53:48,980 --> 00:53:51,980
..body was missing.
634
00:53:54,980 --> 00:53:58,980
Well, it was like he... he wasn't here at all.
635
00:53:59,020 --> 00:54:04,461
And I'd come out here and look at that path there and...
636
00:54:04,501 --> 00:54:08,341
Well, he must have been here.
637
00:54:08,381 --> 00:54:11,821
I'm a different man than I was, Major.
638
00:54:11,861 --> 00:54:19,262
Cos there ain't no way I'd be doing this, if it wasn't for Dwyte. I feel good about that.
639
00:54:19,302 --> 00:54:22,702
So, they can take the jobs.
640
00:54:23,742 --> 00:54:29,902
But there ain't no way they can take that feeling away from me.
641
00:54:29,942 --> 00:54:34,863
Look, Mr Johnson, I really do admire what you're trying to do here,
642
00:54:36,223 --> 00:54:40,703
but, before I can proceed with the army side of this,
643
00:54:40,743 --> 00:54:47,904
I must ask you if a military burial in a Federal cemetery is an alternative you're considering.
644
00:54:47,944 --> 00:54:50,504
Do you want it to be?
645
00:54:50,544 --> 00:54:52,944
It's not my decision.
646
00:54:52,984 --> 00:54:56,304
My orders are to assist you any way I can,
647
00:54:56,344 --> 00:55:00,984
but I must be certain of your wishes before I can go any further.
648
00:55:01,024 --> 00:55:05,985
I expect you think me crazy for going on with this.No.
649
00:55:06,025 --> 00:55:08,705
You're not crazy.
650
00:55:08,745 --> 00:55:11,065
Well...
651
00:55:11,105 --> 00:55:14,105
sometimes I think we're crazy.
652
00:55:14,145 --> 00:55:18,946
But then... I remember some of the letters he had written.
653
00:55:18,986 --> 00:55:21,706
Well, I don't think that any more.
654
00:55:21,746 --> 00:55:24,106
Oh, you know...
655
00:55:24,146 --> 00:55:27,866
most of them was just Dwyte being funny.
656
00:55:27,906 --> 00:55:31,787
You know how it is. He didn't want us to worry.
657
00:55:34,787 --> 00:55:40,187
He was like that - he was always protecting other people.
658
00:55:40,227 --> 00:55:43,547
That last letter, Major...
659
00:55:43,587 --> 00:55:46,548
that last one...
660
00:55:48,548 --> 00:55:52,428
Well... I... I think maybe you oughta read it.
661
00:55:52,468 --> 00:55:55,708
WOMAN: # Steal away
662
00:55:55,748 --> 00:55:59,828
# Steal away
663
00:55:59,868 --> 00:56:05,429
# Steal away to Jesus
664
00:56:05,469 --> 00:56:08,429
# Steal away
665
00:56:08,469 --> 00:56:12,909
# Steal away home
666
00:56:12,949 --> 00:56:16,710
# Ain't got long
667
00:56:16,750 --> 00:56:20,750
# To stay here
668
00:56:20,790 --> 00:56:23,830
# My Lord, he calls me
669
00:56:23,870 --> 00:56:27,670
# He calls me by the thunder
670
00:56:27,710 --> 00:56:32,191
# The trumpet sounds within my so-oul
671
00:56:32,231 --> 00:56:38,391
# Ain't got long
672
00:56:38,431 --> 00:56:44,152
# To stay here. #
673
00:57:06,233 --> 00:57:10,233
LOUD CHATTER AND MUSIC
674
00:57:25,554 --> 00:57:29,355
Evening, Douglas. What do you want, Major?
675
00:57:29,395 --> 00:57:31,875
To talk.
676
00:57:31,915 --> 00:57:34,995
We already talked.
677
00:57:35,035 --> 00:57:37,035
Well...
678
00:57:37,075 --> 00:57:39,635
I'd like to talk some more.
679
00:57:39,675 --> 00:57:45,156
Well, I don't want to talk to you, so unless I'm under orders...
680
00:57:49,756 --> 00:57:52,756
Could I have a draught, please?
681
00:57:56,156 --> 00:58:01,157
I hear you're a pretty good soldier. Don't want to hear it, Major.
682
00:58:01,197 --> 00:58:02,517
I'm not staying in.
683
00:58:02,557 --> 00:58:05,157
Two more months and I'll be out.
684
00:58:05,197 --> 00:58:09,197
Your record indicates... I just did what I had to do,
685
00:58:09,237 --> 00:58:14,518
so don't give me "America's finest", cos I don't go for slogans no more.
686
00:58:14,558 --> 00:58:17,158
My time is short, so is my attitude.
687
00:58:17,198 --> 00:58:19,478
I'm getting out.
688
00:58:19,518 --> 00:58:23,438
I'm just trying to get a guide bearing on Douglas.
689
00:58:26,598 --> 00:58:29,199
Shove off - really.
690
00:58:33,199 --> 00:58:35,559
Why are you sticking with them?
691
00:58:39,279 --> 00:58:41,599
We always hung together.
692
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:44,800
A good unit.
693
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:48,240
Over there we kept each other alive, you know?
694
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:53,240
Good God! I would have thought that you of all the men in the unit...
695
00:58:56,881 --> 00:59:00,201
Where are you going when you get out?
696
00:59:00,241 --> 00:59:03,321
You're from Chicago, right?
697
00:59:05,001 --> 00:59:08,001
You got family there?
698
00:59:10,721 --> 00:59:18,122
How would you feel if somebody told you where you could or couldn't bury your mother, say, or your father?
699
00:59:19,162 --> 00:59:21,682
Talk to me, Douglas.Why?
700
00:59:21,722 --> 00:59:24,402
You haven't heard anything I've said.
701
00:59:28,283 --> 00:59:31,683
Was Lt Johnson shot in the front...
702
00:59:31,723 --> 00:59:35,043
or in the back?
703
00:59:40,483 --> 00:59:42,644
CHATTERING
704
00:59:54,844 --> 01:00:01,605
They had lots of fishing tackle, wallet, keys, they had to walk along the shore to get home.
705
01:00:01,645 --> 01:00:05,125
The next day, they stay in a motel and watch TV.
706
01:00:06,165 --> 01:00:11,686
I end up lending them 20 bucks to buy them gas and fish so it won't look so bad.
707
01:00:17,126 --> 01:00:20,926
So, er... how's that case coming along?
708
01:00:21,966 --> 01:00:24,286
Oh, which part of it?
709
01:00:24,326 --> 01:00:28,727
The civil rights suit or the possible murder mystery?
710
01:00:28,767 --> 01:00:31,527
Going nowhere fast in both lanes.
711
01:00:31,567 --> 01:00:33,927
Who says you gotta do it all?
712
01:00:33,967 --> 01:00:41,368
I don't, but I'm afraid of what will happen, if either one of them gets turned over to somebody else.
713
01:00:41,408 --> 01:00:43,888
You're a worrier, kid.
714
01:00:43,928 --> 01:00:48,848
Always have been. Hey, remember crazy Mulrooney and his model?
715
01:00:48,888 --> 01:00:50,688
"Few things matter...
716
01:00:50,728 --> 01:00:53,728
BOTH: "..and nothing matters very much."
717
01:00:53,768 --> 01:00:58,689
Yeah, right! Except food, smokes and centrefolds,
718
01:00:58,729 --> 01:01:03,329
and then they sent him home with a perforated ulcer.
719
01:01:03,369 --> 01:01:09,650
Unfortunately, Sarge, both these things do... matter very much.
720
01:01:09,690 --> 01:01:13,210
There are a lot of people, me included...
721
01:01:13,250 --> 01:01:15,570
You know how it is in the service.
722
01:01:15,610 --> 01:01:23,010
You get used to moving around, learning new names, having a few beers then shipping out.
723
01:01:23,050 --> 01:01:25,371
But there are certain faces that...
724
01:01:25,411 --> 01:01:28,931
you don't forget.
725
01:01:28,971 --> 01:01:32,291
Dwyte Johnson seems to be like that for me.
726
01:01:32,331 --> 01:01:34,931
I can't figure out why.
727
01:01:34,971 --> 01:01:38,372
I never even met the man.
728
01:01:38,412 --> 01:01:42,172
Maybe he's the guy on the other end of your saw.
729
01:01:42,212 --> 01:01:44,252
What does that mean?
730
01:01:44,292 --> 01:01:51,092
As a logger, I thought the best guy to have on the other end was your opposite.
731
01:01:51,132 --> 01:01:55,933
Like a mirror reverse, so that when he pulled, you pushed.
732
01:01:55,973 --> 01:01:58,573
So, you think we're...
733
01:01:58,613 --> 01:02:00,453
like, opposites?
734
01:02:00,493 --> 01:02:08,374
Well, you said he liked to take chances, and he didn't try to please everybody all the time.Hmm.
735
01:02:08,414 --> 01:02:14,414
You've been a good soldier, a brave one, but you're still trying to paddle the boat
736
01:02:14,454 --> 01:02:16,894
and not make waves.
737
01:02:21,574 --> 01:02:23,575
Major Laird?
738
01:02:23,615 --> 01:02:30,735
Colonel Holmby. This is Sgt Major, retired, Bill Davis, my old squad leader.Colonel.
739
01:02:30,775 --> 01:02:32,775
Nice to meet you.
740
01:02:32,815 --> 01:02:34,215
Major Laird.
741
01:02:34,255 --> 01:02:38,856
How is your special assignment progressing?It's coming along, sir.
742
01:02:38,896 --> 01:02:40,336
Good.
743
01:02:40,376 --> 01:02:45,336
General Hauer has called me about it. We can't keep him waiting.
744
01:02:45,376 --> 01:02:48,136
No, sir. I understand.Good.
745
01:02:48,176 --> 01:02:51,176
Enjoy your dinner.Thank you, sir.
746
01:02:55,177 --> 01:02:57,137
Fun guy.
747
01:02:59,057 --> 01:03:01,577
COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC PLAYS
748
01:03:04,137 --> 01:03:08,098
Sure enough, the car starts going slower and slower.
749
01:03:08,138 --> 01:03:09,978
Vroom! Vroom!
750
01:03:10,018 --> 01:03:14,858
We get to the on ramp. It's downhill.
751
01:03:14,898 --> 01:03:19,938
We get out of the cab, the two of us push the cab right up to the station.
752
01:03:19,978 --> 01:03:24,779
I barrel through the airport, get to the plane before the doors close,
753
01:03:24,819 --> 01:03:29,819
get on the airplane, I sit down, takes me about an hour to get my breath and dry off,
754
01:03:29,859 --> 01:03:31,619
and then...
755
01:03:31,659 --> 01:03:34,779
and then they send my luggage to Cleveland!
756
01:03:37,740 --> 01:03:40,380
CHOKING
757
01:03:46,980 --> 01:03:53,381
I thought when you got to be 40, you didn't have to scramble around like that.
758
01:03:53,421 --> 01:03:56,381
Why don't you come down here
759
01:03:56,421 --> 01:03:59,341
and just fish for a day or two, huh?
760
01:03:59,381 --> 01:04:02,861
You can use bait or not. Yeah, sure, any time.
761
01:04:02,901 --> 01:04:06,102
Why not? You're due some time off.
762
01:04:07,142 --> 01:04:11,062
No, I was never very good at vacations.
763
01:04:11,102 --> 01:04:15,582
That was one of the big problems with Jan and me.
764
01:04:15,622 --> 01:04:20,503
Lousy vacations, it turns out, make for great grounds for divorce.
765
01:04:20,543 --> 01:04:23,343
You over all that?Oh, yeah.
766
01:04:23,383 --> 01:04:28,903
Eight years - I can barely even believe that I was married to her.
767
01:04:29,903 --> 01:04:32,543
I can believe it. I was there.
768
01:04:46,384 --> 01:04:49,545
So, you... want another beer?
769
01:04:49,585 --> 01:04:52,585
Another excuse not to talk about it?
770
01:04:52,625 --> 01:04:56,105
Look, Sarge, don't push me, OK?
771
01:04:56,145 --> 01:05:00,545
I've been going through a lot these days, a lot of pressure.
772
01:05:00,585 --> 01:05:04,906
Just don't tell me everything is hunky dory.I didn't!
773
01:05:13,746 --> 01:05:15,706
I'm sorry.
774
01:05:15,746 --> 01:05:20,027
I didn't mean to bite your head off. You're allowed.
775
01:05:20,067 --> 01:05:25,467
Yeah, here I am. Everywhere else I feel like I'm in a strait-jacket.
776
01:05:25,507 --> 01:05:30,427
I can't do this or that because of rules or because I'll hurt somebody.
777
01:05:30,467 --> 01:05:35,708
And I can't work out what the HELL is going on as nobody will talk!
778
01:05:35,748 --> 01:05:42,228
I can't keep bugging these guys with the same stupid questions over and over again.
779
01:05:42,268 --> 01:05:45,268
Why not?Because it doesn't work!
780
01:05:45,308 --> 01:05:52,509
I barge into the NCO club at the base, and I'm talking to this soldier about the whole thing -
781
01:05:52,549 --> 01:05:55,549
black kid named Douglas.
782
01:05:56,989 --> 01:05:59,669
He turns round and walks out on me.
783
01:05:59,709 --> 01:06:04,510
I'm afraid if I go after him again, he'll clam up for good.
784
01:06:04,550 --> 01:06:08,590
And I just KNOW there's something he's not telling me.
785
01:06:08,630 --> 01:06:12,630
I don't know what you're crying in your beer about.
786
01:06:12,670 --> 01:06:17,150
You could have dropped this any time you liked, right?
787
01:06:20,151 --> 01:06:23,751
You know what your problem is, Kenny?
788
01:06:23,791 --> 01:06:28,351
What?You finally got hold of something you believe in.
789
01:06:48,353 --> 01:06:50,673
Sir.
790
01:06:56,993 --> 01:07:02,234
Look, why do you keep coming around my face? You're driving me crazy!
791
01:07:02,274 --> 01:07:04,874
Look, this is not going to go away!
792
01:07:04,914 --> 01:07:10,594
Douglas, I'm sorry about what I said at the club last night. That was...
793
01:07:10,634 --> 01:07:17,795
way out of line, but something is going on and if we keep covering it up, it'll rot until it explodes!
794
01:07:17,835 --> 01:07:18,995
Tell me something!
795
01:07:19,035 --> 01:07:21,635
I owe you nothing! I...
796
01:07:21,675 --> 01:07:25,475
Let me tell you what it was like for a brother.
797
01:07:25,515 --> 01:07:32,996
I was giving blood to a white guy, I was pumping my own blood into him! And when he comes to, he sees me,
798
01:07:33,036 --> 01:07:35,276
and he starts yelling to stop,
799
01:07:35,316 --> 01:07:39,436
even when he's been told he's gonna DIE unless he takes my blood,
800
01:07:39,476 --> 01:07:43,636
this ranch-running redneck had to THINK about it!
801
01:07:43,676 --> 01:07:47,077
So... Lt Johnson ain't alone in it.
802
01:07:47,117 --> 01:07:53,117
So you should want to help him. You think I'm still part of this army. I'm not.
803
01:07:53,157 --> 01:07:57,277
How does that help Dwyte Johnson get what's right?
804
01:07:57,317 --> 01:08:02,318
The name of the game is survival. Stayin' alive! You dig?
805
01:08:02,358 --> 01:08:08,878
I'm sorry Lt Johnson's dead. I'm sorry I wake up at night sweating when it's cold out.
806
01:08:08,918 --> 01:08:12,318
I'm sorry I'm talking to you! Something is going on.
807
01:08:12,358 --> 01:08:16,639
You weren't there! You weren't in that hole!
808
01:08:16,679 --> 01:08:20,799
Oh, man, when Johnson and Buyer got hit you weren't there.
809
01:08:22,119 --> 01:08:23,599
Buyer?
810
01:08:23,639 --> 01:08:25,919
Who's Buyer?
811
01:08:26,959 --> 01:08:32,000
There's no mention in this whole place of anybody named Buyer?
812
01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:39,600
They were pulling them units out pretty fast. I doubt we'll ever get all the historical records back.
813
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:43,640
If he was in that unit, there's three possibilities -
814
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:48,121
he's wearing civvies, he's wearing bandages,
815
01:08:48,161 --> 01:08:51,081
or he's wearing dirt.
816
01:08:51,121 --> 01:08:55,801
Now, if you want, I can find a way of tracing him.
817
01:08:58,081 --> 01:09:00,842
I want.
818
01:09:18,003 --> 01:09:20,923
Specialist Buyer?
819
01:09:20,963 --> 01:09:22,963
I'm Major Laird.
820
01:09:27,723 --> 01:09:29,724
How's it going?
821
01:09:29,764 --> 01:09:31,844
How does it look?
822
01:09:35,124 --> 01:09:37,084
Looks rough.
823
01:09:42,684 --> 01:09:44,605
What do you want?
824
01:09:44,645 --> 01:09:51,005
I've been assigned Survivor Assistance Officer... I ain't dead yet.
825
01:09:51,045 --> 01:09:56,485
..Survivor Assistance Officer for the family of Dwyte Johnson.
826
01:09:59,326 --> 01:10:01,326
Go away.Why?
827
01:10:01,366 --> 01:10:06,166
Nothing worse can happen, so there ain't nothing you can threaten me...
828
01:10:06,206 --> 01:10:12,206
What makes you think anybody's here to threaten you? Nurse! Get him away from me!
829
01:10:12,246 --> 01:10:19,367
You're not being threatened! Is that clear?Clear? Is anything real clear to you, Major?
830
01:10:19,407 --> 01:10:21,647
Less and less every day.
831
01:10:23,767 --> 01:10:25,967
Where's your home, Buyer?
832
01:10:26,007 --> 01:10:28,648
Right here, sir.
833
01:10:28,688 --> 01:10:31,688
I mean where are you from?
834
01:10:31,728 --> 01:10:34,048
Arkansas.
835
01:10:34,088 --> 01:10:39,688
Maybe you're not surprised at the problems in Rockville.Problems?
836
01:10:39,728 --> 01:10:43,689
You don't know? You're not on the grapevine, too?
837
01:10:43,729 --> 01:10:49,169
I ain't on anybody's grapevine. I don't talk to anybody.
838
01:10:50,209 --> 01:10:56,369
The Johnson family can't get Dwyte buried. The town cemetery's all white.
839
01:10:56,409 --> 01:10:59,570
They found him? They found his body?
840
01:10:59,610 --> 01:11:02,490
Took them a while.
841
01:11:02,530 --> 01:11:05,050
Oh.What's the matter?
842
01:11:05,090 --> 01:11:10,090
Where did they find him?Down river from where you and he were hit.
843
01:11:10,130 --> 01:11:11,410
You OK?
844
01:11:11,450 --> 01:11:13,771
Where... where is he now?
845
01:11:13,811 --> 01:11:16,651
In his family's church an hour away.
846
01:11:16,691 --> 01:11:18,731
He's floating.
847
01:11:18,771 --> 01:11:21,771
He's floating like I last saw him.
848
01:11:21,811 --> 01:11:29,452
I... I can't... deal with this. I don't want to hear any more about this. Just go away and leave me alone!
849
01:11:29,492 --> 01:11:34,692
Sshh.I can't... Calm down! Just listen to me for a minute.
850
01:11:34,732 --> 01:11:36,732
It's OK.
851
01:11:39,932 --> 01:11:43,373
Buyer, I know what you went through. I was there.
852
01:11:43,413 --> 01:11:44,853
It was...
853
01:11:44,893 --> 01:11:49,693
some part of Nam that we'll never put behind us.
854
01:11:49,733 --> 01:11:57,334
But at least for us the fighting's over. We came home. It Johnson came home dead and he's still fighting.
855
01:11:57,374 --> 01:12:01,414
Now I'm trying to help him. You help me.
856
01:12:01,454 --> 01:12:06,334
I escorted the body of a Vietnam hero back to his family.
857
01:12:07,494 --> 01:12:12,095
And those people can't even bury their only son.
858
01:12:13,735 --> 01:12:17,135
When I started all this, it was just a coffin,
859
01:12:17,175 --> 01:12:22,175
but I go into his home, I find out this was an amazing man.
860
01:12:22,215 --> 01:12:27,576
Dwyte Johnson did more in 24 years than most of us will do in 50.
861
01:12:27,616 --> 01:12:34,416
The men who served under him, who put him up for a medal, they don't want to help him!
862
01:12:34,456 --> 01:12:36,936
And I don't know why.
863
01:12:36,976 --> 01:12:38,976
Look at me!
864
01:12:39,016 --> 01:12:43,857
You tell me what happened out there. What happened?
865
01:12:43,897 --> 01:12:48,337
Until I know it, Dwyte Johnson is not going to rest.
866
01:12:48,377 --> 01:12:52,377
And I'm not going to rest until I find it.
867
01:12:52,417 --> 01:12:55,418
You've found it.Found what?
868
01:12:58,818 --> 01:13:01,178
It was all my fault.
869
01:13:01,218 --> 01:13:03,138
What are you talking about?
870
01:13:05,778 --> 01:13:07,738
Everything.
871
01:13:07,778 --> 01:13:09,419
The air strike.
872
01:13:09,459 --> 01:13:15,219
Buyer. Tell me everything from the beginning.I can't.You can.
873
01:13:15,259 --> 01:13:18,739
I can't!You can! No, I can't!Why not?
874
01:13:18,779 --> 01:13:22,379
I can't fix... I can't change what happened!
875
01:13:22,419 --> 01:13:26,580
You're holding on to something. Let go of it!No, I... I...
876
01:13:26,620 --> 01:13:28,500
TELL ME!
877
01:13:28,540 --> 01:13:34,540
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you, but please, please, help me.
878
01:13:34,580 --> 01:13:38,580
Help me pull something good out of all this!
879
01:13:38,620 --> 01:13:42,621
Major, you don't know what you're asking me to do.
880
01:13:42,661 --> 01:13:44,981
I know I don't.
881
01:13:45,021 --> 01:13:47,141
I know I don't.
882
01:13:51,261 --> 01:13:54,262
But whatever it is, Buyer,
883
01:13:56,102 --> 01:13:59,102
this is the time to do it.
884
01:14:24,664 --> 01:14:26,864
(Buyer.)
885
01:14:42,985 --> 01:14:45,705
Gentlemen.ALL: Sir.
886
01:14:49,825 --> 01:14:54,026
Specialist Buyer refused to talk to me alone.
887
01:14:54,066 --> 01:14:58,866
What he has to say he wanted to say in front of all of you.
888
01:15:05,666 --> 01:15:10,867
The Major told me the story you been telling about how Lt Johnson died.
889
01:15:12,907 --> 01:15:15,147
< I have come
890
01:15:15,187 --> 01:15:16,867
to tell the truth.
891
01:15:16,907 --> 01:15:19,667
What the hell are you doing?
892
01:15:22,548 --> 01:15:24,668
I gotta do this.
893
01:15:24,708 --> 01:15:26,948
I don't.
894
01:15:26,988 --> 01:15:29,908
You don't know what I'm gonna say!
895
01:15:29,948 --> 01:15:31,828
SIT DOWN!
896
01:15:48,989 --> 01:15:51,870
All right, Specialist,
897
01:15:53,590 --> 01:15:56,150
take it from the beginning.
898
01:15:59,030 --> 01:16:01,870
Well, you see, Major,
899
01:16:01,910 --> 01:16:06,911
about ten days before Lt Johnson got killed
900
01:16:06,951 --> 01:16:12,191
we were sent out on a reconnaissance patrol, north of Shu Li.
901
01:16:13,231 --> 01:16:20,151
< Now, man, that's all we did. We were humping those boonies, looking for Charlie,
902
01:16:20,191 --> 01:16:24,192
like clay pigeons out looking for a shooter.
903
01:16:24,232 --> 01:16:29,712
So we get to this top of the mountain, top of the hill there,
904
01:16:29,752 --> 01:16:33,232
and, er, we looked down at the valley.
905
01:16:34,432 --> 01:16:36,433
There were VC
906
01:16:36,473 --> 01:16:38,393
< moving supplies through.
907
01:16:38,433 --> 01:16:41,953
Tell them about the lieutenant's great idea, Buyer.
908
01:16:46,153 --> 01:16:50,594
So the lieutenant says he's gonna call in an air strike.
909
01:16:51,674 --> 01:16:58,794
He checks out his map, hands me some co-ordinates, and tells me to call in the biggest strike we can get.
910
01:16:58,834 --> 01:17:01,954
And we got it, didn't we?
911
01:17:01,994 --> 01:17:04,835
It landed smack-dab on us.
912
01:17:06,275 --> 01:17:08,275
Was anybody hit?
913
01:17:08,315 --> 01:17:10,075
Yeah, Wilson. >
914
01:17:10,115 --> 01:17:16,035
Never knew what hit him. Went home in medium-sized chunks.
915
01:17:16,075 --> 01:17:20,116
BRADFORD: I wonder what they told his parents.
916
01:17:20,156 --> 01:17:22,636
The Lieutenant felt real bad.
917
01:17:22,676 --> 01:17:27,396
I don't believe this! Buyer, are you feelin' sorry for him?
918
01:17:27,436 --> 01:17:30,876
You bad-mouthed Lt Johnson more than anyone! >
919
01:17:30,916 --> 01:17:32,756
YOU called him super-spade!
920
01:17:32,796 --> 01:17:34,757
I said that to you?
921
01:17:34,797 --> 01:17:37,077
You were the most prejudiced!
922
01:17:37,117 --> 01:17:39,797
HEATED ARGUING
923
01:17:39,837 --> 01:17:42,277
I never said one racial remark.
924
01:17:42,317 --> 01:17:47,037
You never said anything good cos he made it to West Point and you didn't.
925
01:17:47,077 --> 01:17:52,278
You shut your mouth, I don't need to listen to that stuff.THAT'S ENOUGH!
926
01:17:55,838 --> 01:17:57,958
Was there racial tension?
927
01:18:06,719 --> 01:18:08,799
Porter?
928
01:18:09,839 --> 01:18:12,039
Things were getting better.
929
01:18:12,079 --> 01:18:14,679
We had a good unit. >
930
01:18:15,719 --> 01:18:17,719
We were...
931
01:18:17,759 --> 01:18:21,720
the only good thing I was ever part of.
932
01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:27,360
Well, Wilson was our first casualty.
933
01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:33,961
We were feeling real lucky up until then.
934
01:18:34,001 --> 01:18:39,161
It Johnson was real sharp. It wasn't like him to make a mistake.
935
01:18:41,401 --> 01:18:44,761
Yeah, but he kind of lost it after that.
936
01:18:44,801 --> 01:18:47,041
He did not lose it!
937
01:18:49,362 --> 01:18:52,842
You could see it was tearing him up inside.
938
01:18:52,882 --> 01:18:55,802
But it was too late.
939
01:18:55,922 --> 01:18:59,882
I should have told him. I tried. I just couldn't.
940
01:18:59,922 --> 01:19:01,802
What are you telling us?
941
01:19:01,842 --> 01:19:04,283
He didn't make a mistake.
942
01:19:05,963 --> 01:19:09,483
When I called in the air strike, I changed the co-ordinates.
943
01:19:09,523 --> 01:19:12,003
You did what?
944
01:19:12,043 --> 01:19:14,443
I thought they were wrong!
945
01:19:19,724 --> 01:19:22,364
Let me get this straight.
946
01:19:22,404 --> 01:19:26,764
Didn't the Lieutenant check? Yeah, but I lied again.
947
01:19:26,804 --> 01:19:31,564
< I told him they were the numbers he gave me.Why?
948
01:19:31,605 --> 01:19:35,165
Why? Why did you change the numbers?
949
01:19:36,645 --> 01:19:39,525
He figured a black man couldn't plot.
950
01:19:40,685 --> 01:19:42,685
Is that true?
951
01:19:47,126 --> 01:19:49,006
So...
952
01:19:49,046 --> 01:19:53,846
Buyer was responsible for an air strike hitting the unit.
953
01:19:57,166 --> 01:20:00,646
Lieutenant Johnson thought it was his fault...
954
01:20:01,807 --> 01:20:04,807
..and all of you thought so, too.
955
01:20:07,327 --> 01:20:09,207
All right now.
956
01:20:11,007 --> 01:20:13,927
let's get down to it.
957
01:20:16,088 --> 01:20:20,328
What happened when... when "all hell broke loose"?
958
01:20:23,808 --> 01:20:25,448
Erskine.
959
01:20:30,889 --> 01:20:34,449
Well, it was pretty much like what we told you.
960
01:20:36,769 --> 01:20:39,769
'Cept we left part of it out. >
961
01:20:39,809 --> 01:20:41,169
What part?
962
01:20:44,329 --> 01:20:50,130
Lieutenant Johnson thought that he knew where the fire was coming from.
963
01:20:50,170 --> 01:20:54,410
He grabs his grenade launcher and he shouts... >
964
01:20:56,690 --> 01:20:59,210
.."Let's take it."
965
01:21:00,331 --> 01:21:02,651
And then he jumps up...
966
01:21:06,371 --> 01:21:09,211
And what happened then?
967
01:21:10,251 --> 01:21:13,811
Buyer was the only man who followed him.
968
01:21:13,851 --> 01:21:16,612
They were cut down right away.
969
01:21:16,652 --> 01:21:19,732
Before he died,
970
01:21:19,772 --> 01:21:26,572
the Lieutenant aimed his launcher at the spot he thought the mortar was... and fired.
971
01:21:26,612 --> 01:21:29,052
Did he hit it?
972
01:21:34,853 --> 01:21:37,693
So he did save your lives?
973
01:21:41,213 --> 01:21:43,974
Why didn't you follow him?
974
01:21:44,014 --> 01:21:46,294
I don't know, sir.
975
01:21:47,334 --> 01:21:50,094
Oliver, what about you?
976
01:21:54,854 --> 01:21:57,374
Why didn't you follow him?
977
01:21:58,454 --> 01:22:01,815
Well, when the lieutenant made that mistake...
978
01:22:02,855 --> 01:22:06,095
Well, after we thought he did...
979
01:22:06,135 --> 01:22:09,135
..we started to doubt...
980
01:22:10,175 --> 01:22:12,575
To doubt his leadership?
981
01:22:14,496 --> 01:22:17,496
Would you have had the same doubts
982
01:22:17,536 --> 01:22:20,536
if your officer had been white?
983
01:22:26,416 --> 01:22:29,417
Douglas, what about you?
984
01:22:31,097 --> 01:22:35,737
I didn't follow him that day because of the way he was acting.
985
01:22:35,777 --> 01:22:39,377
I didn't know if he was the man he was before.
986
01:22:45,218 --> 01:22:52,258
How long did you hesitate? Was it, like, one second or... or fifteen? I don't think anyone knows, sir.
987
01:22:52,298 --> 01:22:59,619
Like, when you're in a car wreck, you hear the brakes squeal for what seems like forever, but it's only a second.
988
01:22:59,659 --> 01:23:02,939
It happened before we could think about it.
989
01:23:05,339 --> 01:23:12,540
If you didn't get together to plan all this, why did you get together to cover it up?He saved our lives.
990
01:23:12,580 --> 01:23:16,100
It was wrong for us not to give him the medal.
991
01:23:16,140 --> 01:23:18,580
Oliver was against it. >
992
01:23:18,620 --> 01:23:24,940
because we'd have to explain why we weren't with him when he died.
993
01:23:38,821 --> 01:23:41,782
Gentlemen, I, er...
994
01:23:41,822 --> 01:23:44,822
I want to read you something.
995
01:23:47,502 --> 01:23:52,142
This is the last letter that Dwyte Johnson ever wrote.
996
01:23:54,902 --> 01:23:59,903
I think he must have written it sometime during that last week.
997
01:24:01,463 --> 01:24:03,703
"Dear Mum and Dad,
998
01:24:04,743 --> 01:24:08,423
"only got a minute so I'll write while I can.
999
01:24:08,463 --> 01:24:13,664
"We had our first casualty. It shook up the whole unit, including me.
1000
01:24:13,704 --> 01:24:16,064
"Making decisions
1001
01:24:16,104 --> 01:24:20,104
"that risk death for others is a terrible burden.
1002
01:24:20,144 --> 01:24:24,384
"I care about all these men. Their lives are in my hands
1003
01:24:24,424 --> 01:24:27,265
"and my hands are not supposed to shake.
1004
01:24:27,305 --> 01:24:31,065
"They so believed in their country they'veoffered themselves to die.
1005
01:24:31,105 --> 01:24:35,185
"My job is to keep that from happening and it's so hard.
1006
01:24:35,225 --> 01:24:42,386
"Sometimes I feel so confused. Not a moment goes by that I don't ask myself,'Am I doing this right?'
1007
01:24:42,426 --> 01:24:46,346
"But don't worry about me, I'll get through this.
1008
01:24:46,386 --> 01:24:49,786
"I miss you and love you. Your son, Dwyte."
1009
01:26:29,673 --> 01:26:32,313
INAUDIBLE
1010
01:26:39,074 --> 01:26:42,074
Left. Left. Left, right. Detail, halt.
1011
01:27:14,916 --> 01:27:18,276
We're here for the funeral of Lt Johnson.
1012
01:27:18,316 --> 01:27:21,636
You, er, can't come in here for that.
1013
01:27:21,676 --> 01:27:27,277
Mr Oster, we still own that plot. You can't just take our property.
1014
01:27:27,317 --> 01:27:28,837
We'll buy it back.
1015
01:27:28,877 --> 01:27:31,597
It's not for sale.
1016
01:27:31,637 --> 01:27:33,437
< This cemetery
1017
01:27:33,477 --> 01:27:38,358
is now the private property of the Graykirk Corporation.
1018
01:27:39,638 --> 01:27:42,558
We have a racial covenant
1019
01:27:42,598 --> 01:27:45,598
and you can't bury that boy in here.
1020
01:28:00,359 --> 01:28:04,439
These are his buddies.
1021
01:28:04,479 --> 01:28:06,480
He saved our lives. >
1022
01:28:06,520 --> 01:28:09,480
And we're a good unit, mister. >
1023
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:13,560
And when we make up our minds to do something, >
1024
01:28:13,600 --> 01:28:16,600
nobody can stop us.
1025
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:22,801
- Am I right, Sgt Douglas? - You're right, Buyer.
1026
01:28:25,481 --> 01:28:28,281
Step aside, Mr Oster.
1027
01:28:28,321 --> 01:28:30,321
It's over.
1028
01:28:33,281 --> 01:28:35,281
Gentlemen.
1029
01:28:43,922 --> 01:28:45,642
Forward...
1030
01:28:45,682 --> 01:28:47,682
march!
1031
01:28:47,722 --> 01:28:50,082
Left. Left.
1032
01:29:25,485 --> 01:29:31,525
Well, it looks like Rockville was ready for this after all. Looks like it.
1033
01:30:22,929 --> 01:30:26,649
..of this world the soul of our deceased brother.
1034
01:30:26,689 --> 01:30:31,369
We therefore commit his body to the ground. Earth to earth.
1035
01:30:31,409 --> 01:30:33,490
Ashes to ashes.
1036
01:30:33,530 --> 01:30:35,810
Dust to dust.
1037
01:31:15,812 --> 01:31:18,813
HE SOUNDS THE LAST POST
1038
01:32:50,819 --> 01:32:53,459
INAUDIBLE
1039
01:32:54,499 --> 01:32:56,499
'February 23rd 1972.
1040
01:32:56,539 --> 01:32:59,539
'We buried Lt Johnson today.
1041
01:33:01,140 --> 01:33:03,180
'Finally.
1042
01:33:03,220 --> 01:33:07,220
'But his spirit feels very much alive here.
1043
01:33:07,260 --> 01:33:10,260
'In this town, in his men,
1044
01:33:10,300 --> 01:33:12,060
'in me.
1045
01:33:12,100 --> 01:33:15,101
'I came here as one kind of person.
1046
01:33:15,141 --> 01:33:17,221
'I'm leaving as another.
1047
01:33:19,261 --> 01:33:23,261
'Together with his family and his men,
1048
01:33:23,301 --> 01:33:26,301
'I think we made a difference.
1049
01:33:27,305 --> 01:33:33,646
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