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103.6, WPTC.
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All news radio, traffics,
sports and weather.
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In the district there is
a vile up on constitution.
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Yes, hi, Dr. Hollands
office, please.
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This thing cheat.
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- This is terrible.
- Uh..hello?
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Hi, I'm Tara Huffman, and I have
an 8:15 amnion scheduled,
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and we're totally stuck
on the Constitution.
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I'm so sorry, can you
hang on a second?
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Hello?
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Hi, Celia, I'm on the other line.
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Wait. Celia?
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Okay, alright.
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- Quickly, quickly.
- Okay.
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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.
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Okay?
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Peters just fucking quit.
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You owe me a quarter.
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What happened? Why?
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I--I don't know.
I don't know what happened.
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Okay, there is a metro station two
blocks away, why don't you take it?
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Are you sure?
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- Yeah, yeah.
- I'm sorry.
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- It's okay.
- Thank you.
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Alright, buddy, take care
of your mom, okay?
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- Alright. Good luck.
- Okay.
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- I'll call you later.
- Okay. It's gonna be okay.
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- Alright.
- 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
out of the stink, you're my Kevlar.
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How was I supposed to know the secretary
was gonna call a press conference,
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- let alone resigned today.
- Did he have a reason?
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The secretary? Oh, yes.
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- He wants to spend more--
- More time with the family?
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Oh, Jesus.
Is Stanton there?
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- He brought the donuts.
- Of course, he did.
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- What's my day like?
- We've a 11 o'clock, he is early,
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- and your lunch scrubbed.
- What 11 o'clock?
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Master Sergeant Thomas Tully.
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Never heard of him scheduled.
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We missed you
at the brief.
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I got to have 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 be here 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 doughnut.
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It's got..sprinkles.
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- My wife had a amnion.
- Oh..
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Oh, right. Priorities.
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I don't know how
you do it. Wife..
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- Kids, hamster..
- Oh, it was Gerbil.
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Mercifully, he finally
went tits up.
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Life refined itself of
your patience.
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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
about to be unemployed.
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Oh, come on! You're a superstar
in the verge of free agency.
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You will find something.
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In the middle of an election year?
Not even Tiger could sing that part.
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What makes you think I can?
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Because 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 I gave you in July?
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It's a vague potential memory.
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A Medal of Honor upgrade?
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You have a statues briefing.
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- When?
- Now.
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- With who?
- Master Sergeant Thomas Tully.
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Air force para-rescue, retired.
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- Flew in from Davie.
- Your 11 o' clock.
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He's the guy's buddy.
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Who's guy?
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- What guy?
- The Medal Of Honor candidate.
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Why he won't just...
come himself?
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Because it's posthumous.
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You better read it down.
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Here you go.
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- Christ, I--
- I've been reminding you since July.
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We're talking about one of my
buddies in the days of the war.
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Pit saved lives.
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And he was awarded
with a 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.
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I'm gonna tell you 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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I think that "no information"
part was your job.
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This was 30 years ago.
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I mean, there is 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 Tully, Secretary
of the Air Force..
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..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're gonna follow-up
on this next week.
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Secretary Peters?
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Yes.
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I'm Thomas Tully.
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Air force para-rescue.
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Retired.
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Defense Contract Audit Agency
is looking for a Regional Director.
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That one would be a misstep.
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Okay, well, you're now
officially on your own.
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- Don't be like that.
- Call sheet is in your computer,
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the Secretary is looking for
you and your wife called.
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Wait. Why?
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Well..she didn't say.
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No. Peters.
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Whit wants to see you in
his office in five minutes.
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Congratulations
on the job, Carl.
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More mascots 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 Tully
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doesn’t think we're giving
this MOH matter a perch e.
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That's a misunderstanding.
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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.
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Thanks.
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An entire company nearly wiped
out but for this PJ's efforts.
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Para-rescue 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.
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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 at the white house.
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Now, why do you think
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four star Generals and Presidents
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 because
of some grunt-case
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Peters in the shitter with him.
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
because you embarrassed him.
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- Who? Tully?
- No. Peters.
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Look, uh, I've never done
a medal review, I--
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I-- I don't have time for this.
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What job did you get, anyway?
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I'm Legislative Director
for Madison Holt,
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if it's any of your business.
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Chairman of Armed Services?
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Is there another? Look..what,
do I have to spell this out for you?
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It's just crazy.
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Take a few days, go
collect some war stories,
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have Celia write up a summery
statement requesting more time.
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We look like we give a shit,
just till it rolls-over
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to the next poor slob
who takes your job,
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and you're out of it, 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 getting fired
from all corners.Over.
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Carlie-6-dawn 3.
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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 fires!
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Heaven-1, Pedro inbound,
say, two mikes out.
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Copy that, Charlie-6.
We're inbound now.
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- Charlie-6..
- Get behind now!
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They have mortars and
automatic weapon now.
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It's an ambush!
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Keep moving!
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Hey, Tully! It 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 the medic.
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- Okay.
- Somebody needs to go down there...
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and get 'em straiten down.
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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 the 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, you're back on this bird.
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Roger that.
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You be goddamn careful.
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I'm going down!
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Get the fuck out of here!
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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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it was valor.
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It was a hell of a thing 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
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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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Well, that's a simple question.
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My wife does it.
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It must have sucked to be her.
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00:15:47,922 --> 00:15:49,647
Is there... a point
here somewhere?
234
00:15:50,883 --> 00:15:52,591
We'd been down
this road before.
235
00:15:54,539 --> 00:15:56,041
You just the FNG.
236
00:15:58,477 --> 00:15:59,965
Sergeant...
237
00:16:00,695 --> 00:16:01,531
this
238
00:16:01,694 --> 00:16:05,422
..old-pep project of your's has
been in a coma for three decades.
239
00:16:06,813 --> 00:16:08,961
There's nothing in this for me,
but I'm here anyway.
240
00:16:10,492 --> 00:16:11,609
So, what do you want?
241
00:16:12,977 --> 00:16:14,804
Sorry to keep you--
242
00:16:17,805 --> 00:16:18,813
I nap
243
00:16:19,094 --> 00:16:20,400
more than I used to.
244
00:16:21,148 --> 00:16:22,537
Mr. Pitsenbarger, sir.
245
00:16:23,281 --> 00:16:25,633
You know, I'm just
getting old. It's, uh..
246
00:16:26,148 --> 00:16:27,156
Hard, it's..
247
00:16:27,701 --> 00:16:29,920
Keep me awake long
enough to enjoy it.
248
00:16:33,023 --> 00:16:34,506
- Oh, thank you.
- Well.
249
00:16:34,569 --> 00:16:36,260
- Thank you.
- So..
250
00:16:36,859 --> 00:16:37,867
You're the new one.
251
00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:39,688
The new one?
252
00:16:40,375 --> 00:16:43,234
If you want the real
story about Abilene,
253
00:16:43,259 --> 00:16:45,061
you will need to talk
to the mud soldiers.
254
00:16:45,891 --> 00:16:47,350
And they are?
255
00:16:47,375 --> 00:16:49,726
You working for the
Department of Defense, right?
256
00:16:53,125 --> 00:16:55,375
They are the Army guys,
on the ground.
257
00:16:55,773 --> 00:16:57,947
Charlie Company.
16th Infantry.
258
00:16:58,273 --> 00:16:59,281
The big red one.
259
00:17:00,672 --> 00:17:02,741
Well. As far as they're
concerned, you see, it wasn't
260
00:17:03,039 --> 00:17:04,047
Bill's fight.
261
00:17:04,398 --> 00:17:05,585
Bill was Air Force.
262
00:17:06,297 --> 00:17:08,898
Charlie Company took
80 % of the casualties,
263
00:17:08,929 --> 00:17:11,202
that's 34 KIA's.
264
00:17:11,477 --> 00:17:12,484
In the same day.
265
00:17:13,125 --> 00:17:14,828
Bill was a part of it, of course.
266
00:17:15,563 --> 00:17:17,313
But, he wasn't one of them.
267
00:17:18,148 --> 00:17:19,419
We have to respect that.
268
00:17:19,945 --> 00:17:20,914
Alright.
269
00:17:20,939 --> 00:17:22,425
Now, Billy Takoda
270
00:17:22,703 --> 00:17:23,710
lives
271
00:17:24,375 --> 00:17:28,054
over in Sterling County, that's
about an hour's drive from here.
272
00:17:28,922 --> 00:17:32,071
Over the years, the wives have
tracked down most of the guys.
273
00:17:32,953 --> 00:17:34,351
You might want
to start with them.
274
00:17:34,875 --> 00:17:36,189
And this Billy
275
00:17:36,719 --> 00:17:37,438
guy
276
00:17:37,953 --> 00:17:40,554
is he..Will he talk to me?
Is he alright?
277
00:17:42,109 --> 00:17:44,156
Two of you should
get a lot of fun.
278
00:18:11,390 --> 00:18:13,046
Hello?!
279
00:18:14,694 --> 00:18:16,052
What the hell are
you yelling for?
280
00:18:18,726 --> 00:18:19,897
Jesus.
281
00:18:25,883 --> 00:18:27,319
Billy Takoda.
282
00:18:27,586 --> 00:18:28,980
Not an easy guy to find.
283
00:18:29,328 --> 00:18:30,967
Y’all be careful down
there, you hear?
284
00:18:31,313 --> 00:18:33,283
Jeremy.
Stay out of that water.
285
00:18:36,086 --> 00:18:37,596
So, what's your story?
286
00:18:38,969 --> 00:18:40,229
Why are you here?
287
00:18:40,633 --> 00:18:41,641
Well,
288
00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,591
I appreciate what
you've been through.
289
00:18:43,672 --> 00:18:44,742
Uh..I'm here to help.
290
00:18:45,780 --> 00:18:47,669
If you wanted to help,
you'd pick up weapon,
291
00:18:47,694 --> 00:18:49,561
get some scan
into game, friend.
292
00:18:50,109 --> 00:18:52,382
You'd acknowledge you own
a piece of every bomb drop,
293
00:18:52,407 --> 00:18:54,891
every bullet fired
ever since you've been born.
294
00:18:55,555 --> 00:18:57,866
That you have blood on your
hand. You understand?
295
00:18:58,766 --> 00:19:00,073
Second chance.
296
00:19:00,242 --> 00:19:02,375
Why are you here?
297
00:19:05,531 --> 00:19:06,993
It's my job.
298
00:19:07,797 --> 00:19:09,191
I don't have a choice.
299
00:19:09,227 --> 00:19:10,494
See? That's progress.
300
00:19:10,609 --> 00:19:12,406
Vulnerability in communication.
301
00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,357
Honesty builds trust.
302
00:19:15,211 --> 00:19:17,565
That's the only real currency
we get left in this world.
303
00:19:19,477 --> 00:19:20,647
Now you can trust me?
304
00:19:22,164 --> 00:19:23,172
No.
305
00:19:25,539 --> 00:19:27,641
Do you mind... if I..
Uh..
306
00:19:31,483 --> 00:19:33,829
I'm, uh, here so I can
307
00:19:34,672 --> 00:19:36,267
hear your side of the story.
308
00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:41,850
I talk.
309
00:19:42,055 --> 00:19:43,063
You listen.
310
00:19:50,367 --> 00:19:52,792
Vietnam wasn't my
first square-dance.
311
00:19:53,391 --> 00:19:55,273
I was a dog-faced lifer.
312
00:19:55,938 --> 00:19:57,210
A natural war fighter.
313
00:19:58,328 --> 00:19:59,640
I loved it.
314
00:20:00,430 --> 00:20:02,972
Nothing... made me
feel more alive.
315
00:20:05,094 --> 00:20:07,344
But I had never seen
nothing like Abilene.
316
00:20:09,596 --> 00:20:10,851
A lost of men like that.
317
00:20:18,249 --> 00:20:19,673
Fuck!
318
00:20:19,698 --> 00:20:21,486
- Fuck! Medic!
- Let's go! Let's go!
319
00:20:21,511 --> 00:20:23,057
- Medic!
- Jan, Cover me!
320
00:20:23,082 --> 00:20:24,519
- Medic!
- Take cover!
321
00:20:29,338 --> 00:20:31,344
- Oh, god!
- Goddamn it, Jerry, you alright?
322
00:20:32,376 --> 00:20:34,034
Contact! Victor Charlie!
323
00:20:34,059 --> 00:20:35,565
- Let's move! Let's move!
- I'm hit!
324
00:20:36,195 --> 00:20:38,514
We have wounded and
we're taking fire!
325
00:20:39,312 --> 00:20:40,489
Oh, fuck!
326
00:20:41,387 --> 00:20:43,421
They have mortars and
automatic weapons now.
327
00:20:44,984 --> 00:20:47,920
-
- It's an ambush! Oh!
328
00:20:52,242 --> 00:20:53,577
Pitsenbarger.
329
00:20:53,727 --> 00:20:55,083
Where'd he fit in
330
00:20:55,117 --> 00:20:56,425
all of this?
331
00:20:56,539 --> 00:20:58,037
Well, I had lost my medic.
332
00:20:59,086 --> 00:21:00,725
We had no LC, so...
333
00:21:01,406 --> 00:21:03,248
we called in air force silos.
334
00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:06,227
Pedro. Pedro.
It's Charlie-6, be advised.
335
00:21:06,252 --> 00:21:08,200
We have an tight one down here.
336
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,865
Multiple casualties, we need
you soon at contact, one 'o clock.
337
00:21:12,232 --> 00:21:14,615
Advise when you
got us in sight, over.
338
00:21:18,858 --> 00:21:21,477
Copy, Charlie-6.
Pedro has your smoke.
339
00:21:21,502 --> 00:21:23,874
Pits came down, saved lives.
340
00:21:23,899 --> 00:21:25,590
Evaced wounded.
341
00:21:26,063 --> 00:21:28,774
Died fighting alongside men
he never even knew.
342
00:21:30,029 --> 00:21:31,809
Get down, airman!
343
00:21:31,937 --> 00:21:33,966
- Get down!
- Okay.
344
00:21:34,335 --> 00:21:36,623
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Slow it down!
345
00:21:36,704 --> 00:21:39,568
Nothing but your man
into the basket.
346
00:21:39,854 --> 00:21:41,439
Okay, now.
347
00:21:41,464 --> 00:21:42,214
You.
348
00:21:43,412 --> 00:21:45,357
Get hold these.
349
00:21:45,382 --> 00:21:46,507
Yeah, yeah.
350
00:21:47,850 --> 00:21:49,296
- Nice and easy, now!
- One!
351
00:21:49,321 --> 00:21:50,774
Two. Three.
352
00:21:53,460 --> 00:21:55,137
Alright, hang tight, buddy.
353
00:21:55,319 --> 00:21:57,408
I'm gonna need you to do
something for me, alright?
354
00:21:57,687 --> 00:21:59,955
Keep the pressure on it, alright?
355
00:22:00,053 --> 00:22:03,211
All the way up, you keep that
pressure on. You're going home.
356
00:22:03,236 --> 00:22:04,852
- Lift me!
- Alright.
357
00:22:05,468 --> 00:22:08,262
Okay!
Take it up!
358
00:22:10,725 --> 00:22:12,922
- Alright, hang tight, bud.
- Move it!
359
00:22:13,030 --> 00:22:15,068
- Hold the line! Hold the line!
- Come on.
360
00:22:15,286 --> 00:22:18,290
- What's the story, Lieutenant?
- We've got a 100 meter perimeter.
361
00:22:18,315 --> 00:22:20,403
We're taking fire
from everywhere.
362
00:22:20,428 --> 00:22:23,810
We've got two KIA's and at least
eight wounded that I know of.
363
00:22:24,624 --> 00:22:26,628
Alright, I'm gonna need
two of your guys.
364
00:22:26,722 --> 00:22:28,284
It's your show, airman.
365
00:22:29,608 --> 00:22:30,724
Bart!
366
00:22:31,414 --> 00:22:33,652
Tully says this whole
medal thing was your Idea.
367
00:22:34,279 --> 00:22:35,279
Is that true?
368
00:22:35,438 --> 00:22:38,837
Uh, I made out the paper works,
sent it up the air force chain, that's all.
369
00:22:40,672 --> 00:22:42,449
- But he never got the medal?
- Uh-uh.
370
00:22:43,307 --> 00:22:45,136
Not to big daddy, no.
371
00:22:46,156 --> 00:22:47,164
Why not?
372
00:22:49,586 --> 00:22:50,594
It was war.
373
00:22:52,125 --> 00:22:53,820
Pits wasn't the only
one, you know.
374
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:56,608
I must have wrote over
375
00:22:56,633 --> 00:22:59,543
a dozen letters to
parents and girlfriend.
376
00:23:01,109 --> 00:23:03,788
After that, all you can
do is make amends
377
00:23:05,313 --> 00:23:06,594
and try to forget.
378
00:23:07,984 --> 00:23:09,296
How do you do that?
379
00:23:09,883 --> 00:23:11,194
Like I said,
380
00:23:11,383 --> 00:23:12,860
---
381
00:23:13,531 --> 00:23:15,480
You weren't-- You weren't
back to Vietnam?
382
00:23:17,195 --> 00:23:18,820
I didn't understand
the world anymore
383
00:23:18,845 --> 00:23:20,751
and the world was sure as
hell didn't understand me,
384
00:23:20,794 --> 00:23:22,512
so, where the hell else
was I gonna go?
385
00:23:24,383 --> 00:23:25,660
After I got healed up,
386
00:23:26,793 --> 00:23:30,371
this old high school buddy of mine
called and invited me for beers.
387
00:23:31,289 --> 00:23:34,258
Now, we sitting at the bar and
he shooting shit about girls,
388
00:23:34,633 --> 00:23:37,004
and how we used raise
hell back in the day.
389
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,277
More we talk, more I realized
390
00:23:42,383 --> 00:23:44,625
it was nothing hit, you know.
391
00:23:46,055 --> 00:23:49,874
Then he blurts out, "Hey, You got Purple
Heart. What happened, you get shot?".
392
00:23:52,414 --> 00:23:53,734
It gets real quiet.
393
00:23:55,453 --> 00:23:58,527
All these drunk assholes
just staring at me.
394
00:24:01,234 --> 00:24:02,723
All that I could hear is
395
00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:05,633
screams from the
jungle that day and
396
00:24:07,852 --> 00:24:09,688
artillery whistling in,
397
00:24:10,508 --> 00:24:11,962
and I started to get pissed.
398
00:24:13,586 --> 00:24:14,594
So, uh..
399
00:24:15,340 --> 00:24:17,223
I pulled my shirt up
400
00:24:18,476 --> 00:24:19,765
just to shut him up.
401
00:24:20,750 --> 00:24:22,629
He looks kind of awkward and
402
00:24:23,094 --> 00:24:24,926
then he started chuckling, saying,
403
00:24:25,766 --> 00:24:27,379
"What was you doing?
Running away?"
404
00:24:30,711 --> 00:24:32,109
You know what?
Maybe I was.
405
00:24:33,828 --> 00:24:36,184
Maybe that's what I've
been doing all this time.
406
00:24:37,258 --> 00:24:39,163
I was a refugee
in my own Country
407
00:24:39,188 --> 00:24:41,543
and that hurt way
more than those bullets.
408
00:24:44,715 --> 00:24:46,623
Are they still hurt, Grandpa?
409
00:24:48,844 --> 00:24:51,230
Oh, only on the
inside, baby boy.
410
00:24:52,914 --> 00:24:54,489
Come on, kids.
It's time to eat.
411
00:24:55,086 --> 00:24:57,440
Honey, I think this
Gumbo about ready.
412
00:24:58,382 --> 00:25:00,569
I'm gonna need you to
get on the record.
413
00:25:01,446 --> 00:25:03,653
That's about as only
record you gonna get.
414
00:25:35,797 --> 00:25:36,805
Hey!
415
00:25:39,453 --> 00:25:41,120
Donna Burr?
Hi.
416
00:25:41,145 --> 00:25:43,281
Hey, man, he doesn't
even get up till 8 o'clock.
417
00:25:43,570 --> 00:25:45,387
Oh! Uh..I'm sorry.
418
00:25:46,352 --> 00:25:47,959
Scott Huffman. DOD.
419
00:25:51,016 --> 00:25:52,411
He--He works nights?
420
00:25:52,727 --> 00:25:53,954
Jimmy's PTS.
421
00:25:54,992 --> 00:25:56,120
He's OCD.
422
00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:57,957
He suffers hallucinations
423
00:25:57,982 --> 00:26:00,137
and about fifty other
war related effects.
424
00:26:00,695 --> 00:26:02,293
He sleeps during the day
425
00:26:02,344 --> 00:26:04,176
because the night just
plain terrifies him.
426
00:26:06,570 --> 00:26:09,066
Do you even know
any Vietnam vets?
427
00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:12,180
No. It's, uh,
no experience for me.
428
00:26:15,367 --> 00:26:16,375
How did you two meet?
429
00:26:17,328 --> 00:26:19,465
You mean what do I see
in a section-8 like Jim?
430
00:26:19,847 --> 00:26:22,332
No. Not at all, ma'am.
I'm--I'm just--
431
00:26:22,879 --> 00:26:24,356
I was his nurse.
432
00:26:25,055 --> 00:26:26,168
At the VA.
433
00:26:28,133 --> 00:26:30,559
You can learn a lot about
these guys hanging with them.
434
00:26:30,867 --> 00:26:32,350
What the did,
what it cost.
435
00:26:32,992 --> 00:26:36,467
And every day he finds the courage
not to stick a gun in his mouth.
436
00:26:37,688 --> 00:26:39,844
So, I think he deserves
a little compassion.
437
00:26:40,383 --> 00:26:42,891
And believe me, I get
a lot more than I give.
438
00:26:43,367 --> 00:26:45,715
So, If he wants to
sleep during the days
439
00:26:46,820 --> 00:26:48,108
that's okay with me.
440
00:26:49,031 --> 00:26:51,375
So I saw Frank Pitsenbarger.
441
00:26:52,406 --> 00:26:53,414
And, uh..
442
00:26:53,578 --> 00:26:55,184
He told me you have
a contact list.
443
00:26:55,324 --> 00:26:57,567
For all the charlie company
guys that you put together.
444
00:26:57,746 --> 00:26:59,004
So, that's what you want?
445
00:26:59,453 --> 00:27:00,461
Well,..
446
00:27:00,773 --> 00:27:02,004
No, I would..
447
00:27:02,930 --> 00:27:04,671
Love to talk to your
husband, too.
448
00:27:05,805 --> 00:27:07,887
I hope you're sincere about this,
449
00:27:08,109 --> 00:27:10,346
because Jimmy is tougher
than a two dollar steak,
450
00:27:10,789 --> 00:27:12,062
and he can smell
451
00:27:12,289 --> 00:27:14,135
a wreck from mile up wind.
452
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,847
Well, I don't have a
position or an opinion--
453
00:27:24,917 --> 00:27:26,236
Here's your list.
454
00:27:26,492 --> 00:27:27,626
Thank you.
455
00:27:28,172 --> 00:27:30,021
You want to talk to Jimmy,
you gonna have to wait.
456
00:27:30,215 --> 00:27:32,332
- I'm not making any promises.
- Thank you.
457
00:27:49,617 --> 00:27:50,625
Hey!
458
00:27:51,539 --> 00:27:54,127
Sleeping at post get you
fragged in my unit.
459
00:27:54,961 --> 00:27:56,520
You know what
I'm saying, sir?
460
00:27:59,156 --> 00:28:00,327
People around here,
461
00:28:00,516 --> 00:28:03,254
thinking I'm a goddamn vampire.
Maybe they're right, too.
462
00:28:03,836 --> 00:28:07,020
Because I ain't slept
in the dark for 32 years.
463
00:28:07,410 --> 00:28:08,958
You know what
I'm saying, sir?
464
00:28:10,109 --> 00:28:11,117
You know what that is?
465
00:28:13,219 --> 00:28:14,227
Yes.
466
00:28:16,063 --> 00:28:17,832
No. No, I--I don't.
467
00:28:18,039 --> 00:28:19,258
Yeah.
468
00:28:19,586 --> 00:28:21,263
Big red one.
469
00:28:21,414 --> 00:28:22,975
1st Infantry Division.
470
00:28:23,133 --> 00:28:25,629
Baddest goddamn
GI's ever laced to boot.
471
00:28:26,648 --> 00:28:27,656
Is that loaded?
472
00:28:29,230 --> 00:28:30,189
Fuck!
473
00:28:32,105 --> 00:28:34,410
You know what you call
a gun that ain't loaded?
474
00:28:34,625 --> 00:28:36,672
A fucking stick, sir.
475
00:28:37,797 --> 00:28:39,207
You know what, Jimmy? Uh..
476
00:28:39,438 --> 00:28:40,445
Can I--
477
00:28:40,945 --> 00:28:41,953
Can I call you Jimmy?
478
00:28:43,961 --> 00:28:45,521
I'm a civilian, so,
479
00:28:46,750 --> 00:28:49,293
- you don't have to call me sir.
- The only reason I'm talking
480
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,379
and not shooting,
is because of Tully.
481
00:28:53,336 --> 00:28:56,277
You say this is all about Pits
getting the medal, is that right?
482
00:28:56,695 --> 00:28:58,315
Right. Absolutely.
483
00:28:58,445 --> 00:29:00,285
Because I don't
give a shit about you.
484
00:29:00,816 --> 00:29:02,684
I don't give a shit
about anything.
485
00:29:02,898 --> 00:29:04,727
I just want to be
left goddamn alone!
486
00:29:04,953 --> 00:29:06,393
You understand
what I'm saying?
487
00:29:06,555 --> 00:29:08,811
I may not being fucked
over and fucked around.
488
00:29:09,086 --> 00:29:11,332
Nobody knows what went
down with me over there.
489
00:29:11,570 --> 00:29:12,949
Nobody knows!
490
00:29:14,883 --> 00:29:16,809
You understand
what I'm saying, sir?
491
00:29:19,453 --> 00:29:20,461
Listen, man, I--
492
00:29:20,781 --> 00:29:22,272
I didn't come here
to get shot at,
493
00:29:22,765 --> 00:29:24,980
or to rattle your cage. I'm just--
494
00:29:26,172 --> 00:29:28,832
I'm just here because Tully said
your statement was important,
495
00:29:28,857 --> 00:29:30,579
as did Mr. Pitsenbarger.
496
00:29:33,391 --> 00:29:35,884
I was oldest FNG
they'd ever seen.
497
00:29:37,305 --> 00:29:38,313
Germany.
498
00:29:38,938 --> 00:29:39,945
Guam.
499
00:29:41,410 --> 00:29:43,145
Goddamn Okinawa.
500
00:29:44,777 --> 00:29:47,481
Ten years and I've never
squeezed off one round.
501
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,872
You understand
what I'm saying, sir?
502
00:29:51,257 --> 00:29:52,975
FNG?
What--What is that?
503
00:29:53,719 --> 00:29:54,985
Fucking new guy.
504
00:29:56,344 --> 00:29:58,113
No more that tits on a snake.
505
00:29:58,996 --> 00:30:01,181
FNG's got people killed.
506
00:30:01,918 --> 00:30:03,920
All damn years of waiting,
507
00:30:04,374 --> 00:30:07,610
come Easter '66, I'm
in goddamn Vietnam.
508
00:30:08,156 --> 00:30:10,293
I mean, I didn't
sign up for the shit.
509
00:30:11,046 --> 00:30:12,418
33 years old,
510
00:30:12,443 --> 00:30:14,821
I was a gun whore and
ready to kill something.
511
00:30:15,297 --> 00:30:16,305
Hey, Ray.
512
00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:17,908
You short, right?
513
00:30:18,515 --> 00:30:20,570
32 days and I'll be
swimming in Schlitz
514
00:30:20,595 --> 00:30:21,844
unless you get me killed.
515
00:30:23,234 --> 00:30:25,207
How long it take you to
grease your first dink?
516
00:30:25,287 --> 00:30:27,342
- You know what I'm saying?
- Get off my back.
517
00:30:27,918 --> 00:30:29,426
What's your problem, man?
518
00:30:29,535 --> 00:30:31,316
You two trying to get
each other killed? Hm?
519
00:30:32,125 --> 00:30:33,793
Mick, get the hell
away from here.
520
00:30:35,445 --> 00:30:36,762
Hey, you know better, right?
521
00:30:37,398 --> 00:30:38,691
Keep the eyes open, will 'ya?
522
00:30:59,827 --> 00:31:01,950
Down! Down, down, down!
523
00:31:01,975 --> 00:31:03,771
Incoming!
524
00:31:03,796 --> 00:31:05,402
525
00:31:05,427 --> 00:31:07,861
Get down!
Get down!
526
00:31:07,886 --> 00:31:09,592
How many?
527
00:31:10,566 --> 00:31:12,824
528
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,561
- Where are they?
- I got 'em.
529
00:31:16,850 --> 00:31:18,250
- What do we got?
- Gooks. Three of 'em.
530
00:31:18,281 --> 00:31:19,320
I--I--I got a one.
531
00:31:20,817 --> 00:31:21,966
I got one.
532
00:31:31,499 --> 00:31:32,842
Holy shit.
533
00:31:35,702 --> 00:31:38,246
- Nice shot.
- Charlie-6, Charlie-3.
534
00:31:38,271 --> 00:31:39,378
Here, sir.
535
00:31:41,428 --> 00:31:44,128
- Charlie-6.
- Lieutenant, what the hell is going on up there?
536
00:31:44,580 --> 00:31:46,612
FNG bust his first kill, is all.
537
00:31:46,735 --> 00:31:48,391
Copy that.
Anything else?
538
00:31:48,773 --> 00:31:49,781
Negative.
539
00:31:49,977 --> 00:31:51,328
Roger that.
Charlie-3 out.
540
00:31:54,296 --> 00:31:55,850
Kiev, check his fantail,
541
00:31:56,523 --> 00:31:58,135
then shove a couple
of grenades up under.
542
00:31:59,152 --> 00:32:00,655
If anybody comes for him,
we want to know.
543
00:32:07,869 --> 00:32:08,869
FNG.
544
00:32:09,438 --> 00:32:10,869
Welcome to Nam, Jimmy.
545
00:32:11,585 --> 00:32:12,991
Come on.
I got 'ya.
546
00:32:16,123 --> 00:32:18,498
I had never seen
nobody died before.
547
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,591
That little matter sucked all
the past right out of me.
548
00:32:23,349 --> 00:32:25,269
You understand
what I'm saying, sir?
549
00:32:26,833 --> 00:32:28,742
I felt real bad about that
550
00:32:28,773 --> 00:32:31,083
for exactly twelve hours.
551
00:32:32,965 --> 00:32:34,961
And then I didn't feel
bad about nothing.
552
00:32:47,625 --> 00:32:49,559
I thought this was going to
the bottom of the pile.
553
00:32:50,063 --> 00:32:51,789
We are the bottom of the pile.
554
00:32:52,054 --> 00:32:54,531
Some guy named Raymont called,
said he was confirming.
555
00:32:54,773 --> 00:32:57,685
Today's adventures in
post traumatic exorcism.
556
00:32:58,008 --> 00:32:59,570
Hopefully he won't have a gun.
557
00:33:00,117 --> 00:33:01,741
Sit down and walk me
through the requirements
558
00:33:01,766 --> 00:33:03,835
for a congressional
decorations package.
559
00:33:04,195 --> 00:33:06,641
- New eye witness statements.
- Okay, we're doing that.
560
00:33:06,930 --> 00:33:08,426
DOD report of casualty.
561
00:33:08,555 --> 00:33:10,594
Well, he's definitely dead,
so that's two.
562
00:33:10,797 --> 00:33:12,165
And chain of command
endorsements.
563
00:33:12,406 --> 00:33:13,923
Bingo!
Where are they?
564
00:33:14,243 --> 00:33:15,250
Because
565
00:33:15,523 --> 00:33:17,570
some guy named Kepper
566
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,296
wrote the after action
report and pass it up.
567
00:33:20,874 --> 00:33:23,218
It'd have to had been
approved from Bien Hoa..
568
00:33:23,633 --> 00:33:25,558
Saigon to here at the Pentagon.
569
00:33:25,711 --> 00:33:28,233
- Well, that'd have been protocol.
- Right. So where is it?
570
00:33:29,125 --> 00:33:30,998
Unlocked and get
lost in 32 years. I mean..
571
00:33:31,062 --> 00:33:32,702
This is the Government
we're talking about.
572
00:33:33,007 --> 00:33:35,265
Well, if I can't find the chain
of command endorsements,
573
00:33:35,290 --> 00:33:37,178
this thing is DOA.
574
00:33:37,664 --> 00:33:38,672
I'm out of it.
575
00:33:39,172 --> 00:33:40,317
Why not ask Kepper?
576
00:33:40,789 --> 00:33:42,780
Because he is living
in the Nha Trang
577
00:33:42,805 --> 00:33:45,236
which is in Vietnam and
that's 11 time zones away.
578
00:33:45,641 --> 00:33:48,445
There is this new invention
called the telephone.
579
00:33:48,836 --> 00:33:51,195
Look, apparently, this guy is
some christian burn-out,
580
00:33:51,531 --> 00:33:53,952
smoking ganja under
the Bhodhi Tree.
581
00:33:53,977 --> 00:33:55,541
I'm not..going there.
582
00:33:55,797 --> 00:33:57,838
- Is that the budget sheet?
- Yeah.
583
00:33:59,430 --> 00:34:01,508
Alright, I'll call you
from the room.
584
00:34:06,045 --> 00:34:07,102
I come out here,
585
00:34:07,250 --> 00:34:08,665
knock out a box or two,
586
00:34:08,690 --> 00:34:10,984
check my targets,
pick up my brass.
587
00:34:11,313 --> 00:34:13,166
Keeps me civil with
the kids, you know.
588
00:34:19,313 --> 00:34:21,073
I hear you went to
see Jimmy Burr.
589
00:34:21,258 --> 00:34:22,528
Yeah. Ahem.
590
00:34:22,553 --> 00:34:24,630
He kills things
to release stress.
591
00:34:24,727 --> 00:34:26,522
Flower of box, 75 meters.
592
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,945
Yeah, he's got a
bullet in his head still.
593
00:34:31,125 --> 00:34:33,679
It didn't kill him, so they
slammed him into the VA.
594
00:34:33,727 --> 00:34:35,598
Doped him up for
about 20 years.
595
00:34:35,898 --> 00:34:36,906
Can't imagine why.
596
00:34:46,070 --> 00:34:47,882
It's a hell of a thing, you know.
597
00:34:48,469 --> 00:34:50,069
Have somebody die so you can
598
00:34:50,094 --> 00:34:51,616
pop Melons and
599
00:34:52,358 --> 00:34:54,726
shoot rabbits by the
light of the moon.
600
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,194
Weapons clear, Gene.
601
00:34:58,422 --> 00:34:59,430
Weapons clear.
602
00:35:04,219 --> 00:35:05,855
Your reputation precede you.
603
00:35:06,499 --> 00:35:07,842
Jimmy isn't a fan.
604
00:35:07,867 --> 00:35:09,211
Yeah, Tully either.
605
00:35:09,781 --> 00:35:11,278
Well, if you guys want
606
00:35:11,352 --> 00:35:12,624
this guy to get the medal
607
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,140
I gotta get statements.
608
00:35:14,203 --> 00:35:16,359
- Testimony.
- It was one day,
609
00:35:16,617 --> 00:35:17,791
decades ago.
610
00:35:18,203 --> 00:35:19,851
Pitsenbarg came
into that shit storm
611
00:35:19,876 --> 00:35:21,819
on purpose. I mean, how
do you account for that?
612
00:35:22,344 --> 00:35:23,690
Duty. Commitment.
613
00:35:23,813 --> 00:35:24,820
Mission.
614
00:35:24,898 --> 00:35:25,906
Pick one.
615
00:35:27,405 --> 00:35:29,280
I kept telling him to get out.
616
00:35:30,250 --> 00:35:31,647
But he wouldn't go.
617
00:35:32,141 --> 00:35:34,054
Even his CO ordered
him to back up.
618
00:35:34,578 --> 00:35:36,509
That bird was getting ripped up,
619
00:35:37,211 --> 00:35:38,555
but he waved them off.
620
00:35:40,188 --> 00:35:41,521
Probably saved them, too.
621
00:35:42,391 --> 00:35:43,538
Hell, he was Air Force.
622
00:35:43,984 --> 00:35:45,403
He shouldn't even
have been there.
623
00:35:45,789 --> 00:35:48,133
- Non of us should.
- How so?
624
00:35:48,882 --> 00:35:51,734
We were already been out two
weeks on patrol, but once we
625
00:35:52,366 --> 00:35:55,149
tangled with those NVA
forces, naturally,
626
00:35:55,758 --> 00:35:57,104
we got the duty.
627
00:35:57,438 --> 00:35:58,445
Duty?
628
00:35:58,594 --> 00:35:59,922
Bait. Brother.
629
00:36:00,741 --> 00:36:02,486
Live bait.
630
00:36:06,992 --> 00:36:08,568
Everybody down!
631
00:36:09,999 --> 00:36:11,666
They put us there
and they contact
632
00:36:11,691 --> 00:36:14,984
Alpha or Bravo
would flank and
633
00:36:15,077 --> 00:36:16,250
we'd grind 'em into pulp.
634
00:36:16,796 --> 00:36:18,179
Take 'em out of
whatever the cost.
635
00:36:18,204 --> 00:36:20,734
Search and destroy.
Notches on your pistol, baby.
636
00:36:21,490 --> 00:36:23,476
Kill ratio, body counts..
637
00:36:24,077 --> 00:36:25,859
It was total bullshit.
638
00:36:26,437 --> 00:36:29,101
Wes Marlon, McNamara, Johnson.
639
00:36:29,687 --> 00:36:31,567
That's how they kept
the money flowing.
640
00:36:31,874 --> 00:36:34,298
Kicking anthill,
use 'em mess with gooks,
641
00:36:34,577 --> 00:36:36,960
next day the NVA would be
right back again.
642
00:36:37,225 --> 00:36:38,405
643
00:36:56,108 --> 00:36:57,784
- What's happening?
- Well, the gooks, sir!
644
00:36:57,969 --> 00:36:59,552
- Where?
- Over there, sir!
645
00:37:00,163 --> 00:37:02,067
This place is crawling with them!
646
00:37:05,234 --> 00:37:06,523
Move! Move!
647
00:37:06,548 --> 00:37:08,071
- They're on the trees!
- They're on the trees!
648
00:37:08,096 --> 00:37:09,809
They're on the trees!
649
00:37:13,710 --> 00:37:14,822
Fuck!
650
00:37:15,070 --> 00:37:16,290
Cover me!
651
00:37:21,593 --> 00:37:23,242
We didn't have a fucking chance.
652
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,461
Ah, you're dogging it.
653
00:37:38,132 --> 00:37:38,859
Just so you know,
654
00:37:38,884 --> 00:37:41,718
I can't find the chain of command
endorsements in the Pitsenbarger file.
655
00:37:41,743 --> 00:37:43,178
So, put it in your report.
656
00:37:43,203 --> 00:37:44,546
I am missing something.
657
00:37:45,523 --> 00:37:47,004
What are you doing?
658
00:37:47,055 --> 00:37:47,773
What?
659
00:37:47,921 --> 00:37:50,133
This thing was ancient
history before you were born.
660
00:37:51,413 --> 00:37:52,835
Let me tell you something.
661
00:37:52,914 --> 00:37:54,984
It is an undisputed
fact at the Pentagon
662
00:37:55,109 --> 00:37:57,462
that all the real hardware
goes with the officers.
663
00:37:57,938 --> 00:38:01,437
There's been one enlisted Medal Of
Honor in in the history of the Air Force.
664
00:38:02,156 --> 00:38:05,343
So, somebody makes endorsements
disappear because a guy is enlisted?
665
00:38:05,765 --> 00:38:07,554
It's not a canon worm
you want to open.
666
00:38:08,726 --> 00:38:09,641
Why not?
667
00:38:09,666 --> 00:38:12,023
Because confronting the
Air Force Decorations Board
668
00:38:12,048 --> 00:38:13,611
is not in your business.
669
00:38:13,952 --> 00:38:14,960
Shoot.
670
00:38:15,688 --> 00:38:16,991
- I'm getting a shower.
- Yeah.
671
00:38:17,016 --> 00:38:18,244
Let me count.
672
00:38:27,250 --> 00:38:28,417
Hey, there, hotshot.
673
00:38:28,937 --> 00:38:30,488
I thought you'd go off the planet.
674
00:38:30,523 --> 00:38:32,971
I'm pacing myself.
It's the long way down.
675
00:38:33,460 --> 00:38:34,742
What can I do for you?
676
00:38:35,859 --> 00:38:38,331
You ever hear of a General
John A. Hackmyer?
677
00:38:39,219 --> 00:38:40,817
He was one of the Army
678
00:38:40,984 --> 00:38:43,434
silver backs, down in Saigon,
during the war.
679
00:38:43,727 --> 00:38:45,335
He was also the Service Secretary
680
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,500
that approved the Medal of
Honor review division.
681
00:38:48,373 --> 00:38:49,834
Can you get track him down?
682
00:38:50,086 --> 00:38:52,055
I mean, he is preferably
fertilizer by now,
683
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,263
besides, you're the one with
the DOD security clearance.
684
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,041
Maybe we don't want
the DOD to know.
685
00:39:00,047 --> 00:39:01,055
Can you hold on a second?
686
00:39:09,578 --> 00:39:10,775
We don't?
687
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,296
Chain of command endorsements
688
00:39:12,507 --> 00:39:15,162
aren't essential element for
congressional review.
689
00:39:16,131 --> 00:39:17,710
And they're not in the file.
690
00:39:18,547 --> 00:39:20,210
What are asking me?
691
00:39:20,820 --> 00:39:24,265
I'm asking you if it's possible that
what we're looking for is really lost.
692
00:39:25,202 --> 00:39:26,878
What are you doing?
693
00:39:28,382 --> 00:39:29,749
I'm doing my job.
694
00:39:29,766 --> 00:39:31,735
What do you--
What do you mean, what I'm doing?
695
00:39:31,797 --> 00:39:33,781
It's a rare quality these days.
696
00:39:34,687 --> 00:39:36,287
What, did you grow a conscience?
697
00:39:36,593 --> 00:39:37,640
Not at all.
698
00:39:38,171 --> 00:39:39,688
It's a waste of energy.
699
00:39:41,725 --> 00:39:42,952
Well, I sniff around.
700
00:39:44,734 --> 00:39:45,726
Okay.
701
00:40:04,570 --> 00:40:06,431
- Daddy!
- How are you doing, Mister?
702
00:40:08,585 --> 00:40:09,840
We have company.
703
00:40:12,430 --> 00:40:13,438
Hi.
704
00:40:14,148 --> 00:40:16,695
Long drive from Wellington
on a school bus.
705
00:40:17,119 --> 00:40:18,475
I don't have a car.
706
00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:20,064
They let me take her home.
707
00:40:23,672 --> 00:40:24,680
Who wants to go to the Fort?
708
00:40:24,711 --> 00:40:26,723
- Me!
- Okay.
709
00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:28,447
Thanks for your coffee.
710
00:40:28,977 --> 00:40:29,984
Pleasure.
711
00:40:34,844 --> 00:40:36,297
It mess with my head, man...
712
00:40:37,844 --> 00:40:39,561
The way you
came to see me.
713
00:40:41,367 --> 00:40:42,962
Started having dreams again.
714
00:40:45,523 --> 00:40:46,531
Can't sleep.
715
00:40:48,086 --> 00:40:49,337
Probably normal.
716
00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:50,508
Considering...
717
00:40:55,227 --> 00:40:56,235
Sit down.
718
00:41:00,094 --> 00:41:01,102
I, uh,
719
00:41:04,375 --> 00:41:07,346
When I got out of the
Army Hospital in Saigon,
720
00:41:07,408 --> 00:41:10,536
I wanted to wear my dress uniform
for my mother, even though I knew..
721
00:41:11,031 --> 00:41:13,859
Even they they carried me
off the plane. She was..
722
00:41:14,828 --> 00:41:17,511
She was crying
when she saw me,
723
00:41:17,586 --> 00:41:20,218
I had ribbons and
my Purple Heart.
724
00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:23,479
They took me strait to the VA.
725
00:41:23,546 --> 00:41:25,633
And I was in there months
before I got home,
726
00:41:25,658 --> 00:41:27,406
and I never saw
that uniform again.
727
00:41:29,109 --> 00:41:31,889
She packed everything up
from the war on my duffel.
728
00:41:33,234 --> 00:41:34,765
Like it never happened, you know.
729
00:41:34,790 --> 00:41:37,375
And I guess I didn't
care, 'cause..
730
00:41:37,711 --> 00:41:39,758
They sitting at her
attic ever since.
731
00:41:41,727 --> 00:41:42,968
My daughter is a
732
00:41:43,977 --> 00:41:44,984
shrink.
733
00:41:47,156 --> 00:41:48,263
She told maybe
734
00:41:49,016 --> 00:41:50,272
it would be good
735
00:41:52,015 --> 00:41:53,910
for me to unpack it.
736
00:41:56,273 --> 00:41:58,046
Everything was still there,
737
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,226
smell of the war
still on the cloths.
738
00:42:05,531 --> 00:42:06,757
And, uh..
739
00:42:07,367 --> 00:42:08,992
740
00:42:23,914 --> 00:42:25,320
Pits gave that to me.
741
00:42:25,945 --> 00:42:27,326
He asked me to
take care of it.
742
00:42:28,344 --> 00:42:29,733
He asked me to
bring it to her.
743
00:42:34,273 --> 00:42:35,460
That guy saved
my life and it was
744
00:42:35,485 --> 00:42:37,118
it was the only
thing he has to him.
745
00:42:37,143 --> 00:42:38,754
I wouldn't do it.
746
00:42:42,727 --> 00:42:44,060
I couldn't do it.
747
00:42:48,828 --> 00:42:50,579
Well.
748
00:42:56,523 --> 00:42:58,270
You know what that mean.
749
00:43:11,046 --> 00:43:12,562
1954,
750
00:43:13,062 --> 00:43:16,004
snowed all night. Oh-ho,
that was a beautiful Christmas.
751
00:43:16,516 --> 00:43:19,007
I got Bill his flexible flyer.
752
00:43:20,266 --> 00:43:22,324
It still out there
in the garage.
753
00:43:22,898 --> 00:43:23,906
You were close?
754
00:43:24,117 --> 00:43:26,289
Sure. But, uh..
755
00:43:26,477 --> 00:43:27,935
I was on the road
756
00:43:28,109 --> 00:43:29,690
in those days
757
00:43:29,875 --> 00:43:31,332
I missed so much.
758
00:43:33,047 --> 00:43:34,632
- Oh..
- Yeah.
759
00:43:40,398 --> 00:43:41,679
You close to your dad?
760
00:43:42,867 --> 00:43:44,640
Actually, I'd never met him.
761
00:43:48,702 --> 00:43:50,570
Why--Why did you let him go?
762
00:43:51,164 --> 00:43:52,172
Why didn't you stop him?
763
00:43:54,133 --> 00:43:55,141
You can't
764
00:43:55,313 --> 00:43:57,439
teach your children values
765
00:43:58,727 --> 00:44:00,593
and then just
withdrawn because
766
00:44:01,172 --> 00:44:03,297
you are afraid of
what you might lose.
767
00:44:04,273 --> 00:44:06,480
It just seem like such
a high price to pay.
768
00:44:08,094 --> 00:44:09,312
If not my son
769
00:44:10,758 --> 00:44:11,766
then whose?
770
00:44:12,633 --> 00:44:13,641
My neighbours?
771
00:44:14,672 --> 00:44:15,680
My sisters?
772
00:44:17,180 --> 00:44:18,188
Yours?
773
00:44:19,906 --> 00:44:20,922
Bill,
774
00:44:21,883 --> 00:44:23,977
he honored by all
of us by serving,
775
00:44:24,898 --> 00:44:27,007
and it's no small thing.
776
00:44:29,091 --> 00:44:30,775
No disrespect.
777
00:44:31,578 --> 00:44:32,586
Non taken.
778
00:44:34,664 --> 00:44:36,187
In 1965,
779
00:44:36,664 --> 00:44:37,960
the first ground troops
780
00:44:38,063 --> 00:44:39,675
landed at Da Nang
781
00:44:40,313 --> 00:44:42,351
I had the thing on
TV all the time.
782
00:44:42,882 --> 00:44:44,422
A couple of weeks later,
783
00:44:44,789 --> 00:44:46,522
the US Embassy was bombed.
784
00:44:47,822 --> 00:44:49,656
Americans his age
785
00:44:50,125 --> 00:44:51,295
stared dying,
786
00:44:51,570 --> 00:44:53,146
boys from our own town.
787
00:44:54,359 --> 00:44:55,750
I--I think it moved him.
788
00:44:56,406 --> 00:44:57,532
He came to me one night.
789
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,070
I knew what
he was thinking.
790
00:44:59,226 --> 00:45:01,906
God, he was sent
jolt rides for me.
791
00:45:03,078 --> 00:45:04,501
But he went easy on me.
792
00:45:05,141 --> 00:45:06,812
He never asked
793
00:45:07,203 --> 00:45:08,350
for permission.
794
00:45:09,445 --> 00:45:11,781
I think he knew what
it would mean later
795
00:45:13,305 --> 00:45:14,694
if something happened to him.
796
00:45:23,218 --> 00:45:25,324
And By the time I woke up
797
00:45:25,531 --> 00:45:26,935
he'd already gone.
798
00:45:29,367 --> 00:45:31,022
The next time I saw him,
799
00:45:33,250 --> 00:45:35,031
he had a haircut and orders.
800
00:45:37,007 --> 00:45:39,851
I was never so frightened and
I was never so proud.
801
00:45:42,102 --> 00:45:44,156
I can't help it but
802
00:45:44,687 --> 00:45:45,990
I still miss
803
00:45:47,234 --> 00:45:49,796
of watching him mow
the lawn out there.
804
00:45:50,937 --> 00:45:54,093
The smell of fresh cut
grass on his sneakers.
805
00:45:55,539 --> 00:45:58,094
And how he folded his clothes
806
00:45:58,172 --> 00:45:59,958
even when they were dirty,
807
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:02,766
cause he knew it
pleased his mom.
808
00:46:03,578 --> 00:46:05,507
And I miss the way
809
00:46:05,813 --> 00:46:08,257
he tapped his cleats for luck
810
00:46:08,398 --> 00:46:09,845
when he went out to bed.
811
00:46:10,797 --> 00:46:13,008
And the way he always found me
812
00:46:15,336 --> 00:46:16,890
---
813
00:46:16,968 --> 00:46:18,957
There is thousand
things like that.
814
00:46:21,327 --> 00:46:22,450
But mostly,
815
00:46:22,805 --> 00:46:25,234
I miss what I didn't
get to see him do.
816
00:46:26,242 --> 00:46:27,250
What do you mean?
817
00:46:27,945 --> 00:46:29,698
Well, I never got to see him
818
00:46:29,781 --> 00:46:30,977
marry
819
00:46:31,242 --> 00:46:33,615
or fall in love with
a child of his own.
820
00:46:35,469 --> 00:46:36,575
Because only then
821
00:46:39,039 --> 00:46:40,612
could he understand how much
822
00:46:40,813 --> 00:46:42,294
his father loved him.
823
00:46:48,016 --> 00:46:49,587
I--I have a son.
824
00:46:50,766 --> 00:46:52,828
Then you know what
we're talking about.
825
00:46:56,141 --> 00:46:57,148
Who is, uh,
826
00:46:57,438 --> 00:46:58,445
Jenny?
827
00:46:58,625 --> 00:46:59,633
Oh, Jenny.
828
00:47:00,453 --> 00:47:02,859
Reiner. So beautiful.
829
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,789
She came to live with us
when Bill was overseas.
830
00:47:06,148 --> 00:47:08,351
You see, Mr. Huffman..
831
00:47:10,523 --> 00:47:12,257
We actually lost
832
00:47:13,078 --> 00:47:14,828
two children that day.
833
00:47:15,046 --> 00:47:16,851
Here are her letters.
834
00:47:17,227 --> 00:47:19,166
She gave them to us
when she got married.
835
00:47:20,055 --> 00:47:22,429
But we could never bring
ourselves to read 'em.
836
00:47:24,453 --> 00:47:25,609
Mr.Pitsenbarger.
837
00:47:26,570 --> 00:47:28,539
I--I want to be clear.
838
00:47:30,656 --> 00:47:32,160
This process doesn't take
839
00:47:32,469 --> 00:47:33,477
months.
840
00:47:33,757 --> 00:47:35,474
It would takes years.
841
00:47:36,539 --> 00:47:38,570
Scott, I have a cancer.
842
00:47:38,852 --> 00:47:40,431
I should've been
gone already,
843
00:47:40,594 --> 00:47:42,078
if you'd believe the doctors.
844
00:47:42,125 --> 00:47:44,477
But he's a fighter. My man.
845
00:47:46,281 --> 00:47:47,289
I'm sorry.
846
00:47:47,414 --> 00:47:50,476
Dying isn't harder than losing
a child, I promise you.
847
00:47:51,328 --> 00:47:52,499
Do what you can, sir.
848
00:47:52,742 --> 00:47:53,789
Thank you.
849
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:16,727
He sleeps so soundly.
850
00:48:18,898 --> 00:48:20,718
He has no worries.
851
00:48:22,188 --> 00:48:23,339
Pitsenbarger.
852
00:48:24,602 --> 00:48:25,747
He had everything.
853
00:48:26,586 --> 00:48:28,414
People really care about the guy,
854
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,173
and really loved him.
855
00:48:36,922 --> 00:48:38,328
How could he give all that up?
856
00:48:39,664 --> 00:48:42,007
He knew what he was leaving
behind and still he...
857
00:48:44,031 --> 00:48:45,351
..had such certainty.
858
00:48:47,219 --> 00:48:48,227
Of what?
859
00:48:49,805 --> 00:48:50,813
That
860
00:48:52,539 --> 00:48:53,812
no bullet was gonna
861
00:48:55,063 --> 00:48:57,421
stop him from
being who he was.
862
00:49:00,273 --> 00:49:02,976
I never felt that certain about
anything in my entire life.
863
00:49:13,430 --> 00:49:14,632
I have.
864
00:50:04,257 --> 00:50:05,593
Look, we don't play boss, alright?
865
00:50:05,618 --> 00:50:08,031
No matter what, don't
move, don't breath.
866
00:50:08,056 --> 00:50:09,658
Come on. Come on.
Hurry up.
867
00:50:13,039 --> 00:50:14,813
We have contact all around us!
868
00:50:14,838 --> 00:50:17,250
BC got the whole goddamn
battalion out of bed for this one.
869
00:50:17,275 --> 00:50:19,184
We gonna tight knot
this circle, right now.
870
00:50:19,406 --> 00:50:20,640
Takoda still out there, sir.
871
00:50:20,665 --> 00:50:23,453
- Let's find out!
- Willie and Burr, too.
872
00:50:25,085 --> 00:50:26,994
Nobody gets left
outside the perimeter.
873
00:50:32,952 --> 00:50:34,604
874
00:50:34,629 --> 00:50:35,629
Hey!
875
00:51:05,625 --> 00:51:07,276
Hello?
876
00:51:18,305 --> 00:51:20,115
Whatever it is you want,
877
00:51:21,688 --> 00:51:23,113
it's okay.
878
00:51:39,398 --> 00:51:40,545
Psst!
879
00:51:40,734 --> 00:51:42,204
Is anybody alive?
880
00:51:42,491 --> 00:51:43,908
Yeah.
881
00:51:57,249 --> 00:51:58,608
I can't breath.
882
00:51:58,633 --> 00:52:00,903
Well, they messed
you up good, Lieutenant.
883
00:52:01,068 --> 00:52:02,534
Get me out of here, will you?
884
00:52:02,763 --> 00:52:05,471
I need your help with
your Lieutenant, okay?
885
00:52:05,761 --> 00:52:07,748
- You with me?
- You gotta help Willie.
886
00:52:08,022 --> 00:52:10,913
- We can't leave him.
- Sh..Willie’s gone, friend, alright?
887
00:52:10,938 --> 00:52:12,796
Pal, are you with me?
Look at me.
888
00:52:12,821 --> 00:52:13,913
- You with me?
- Yeah.
889
00:52:13,938 --> 00:52:15,710
Alright. Come on.
890
00:52:15,735 --> 00:52:17,905
Up you get. Come on,
grab a shoulder.
891
00:52:17,930 --> 00:52:19,834
One. Two. Three.
892
00:52:20,257 --> 00:52:21,257
893
00:52:21,367 --> 00:52:22,771
Let's go! Let's go.
894
00:52:28,347 --> 00:52:30,394
895
00:52:34,365 --> 00:52:35,499
This way!
896
00:52:36,694 --> 00:52:38,886
897
00:52:39,468 --> 00:52:42,054
It's Takoda.
For Christ sake, don't shoot.
898
00:52:42,079 --> 00:52:43,702
Going down over there.
899
00:52:43,727 --> 00:52:46,295
Over there.
That's it. Easy, easy, easy.
900
00:52:46,788 --> 00:52:48,226
Move! Move!
901
00:52:48,251 --> 00:52:49,986
Snap it and pack it, alright?
902
00:52:54,437 --> 00:52:55,886
And not too tight, alright?
Just..
903
00:52:55,911 --> 00:52:57,605
- Venous pressure.
- Alright.
904
00:52:58,679 --> 00:53:00,249
Okay, that's it.
905
00:53:00,343 --> 00:53:01,781
That's it.
906
00:53:02,171 --> 00:53:03,799
Okay.
907
00:53:03,855 --> 00:53:05,416
908
00:53:08,022 --> 00:53:09,934
Hey, you're doing great.
909
00:53:10,366 --> 00:53:11,954
You're doing just great.
910
00:53:15,601 --> 00:53:17,370
Alright, okay.
911
00:53:17,711 --> 00:53:20,240
One. Two. Three.
912
00:53:21,999 --> 00:53:24,544
I need you to hold back, alright?
Don't let that move.
913
00:53:24,852 --> 00:53:25,854
Okay?
914
00:53:26,328 --> 00:53:27,454
Why are you here?
915
00:53:28,929 --> 00:53:30,252
Because you're here.
916
00:53:42,905 --> 00:53:44,168
Did he..
917
00:53:44,515 --> 00:53:45,844
Say anything?
918
00:53:48,594 --> 00:53:50,207
He never says anything.
919
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:04,356
Hey.
920
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:06,857
- Somebody somewhere likes you.
- Hey, Carl.
921
00:55:07,148 --> 00:55:09,090
The FBI is doing
due diligence,
922
00:55:09,129 --> 00:55:13,024
you're on the short list for Assistant
Secretary for Legislative Affairs.
923
00:55:14,531 --> 00:55:15,539
What did you tell 'em?
924
00:55:16,203 --> 00:55:19,452
That you're lying womanizing
pimp and you cheated hoops.
925
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:22,535
They assured me those all are
occupational requirements.
926
00:55:24,609 --> 00:55:26,045
And what about the MOH?
927
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:28,346
MOH?
I already assigned it.
928
00:55:28,539 --> 00:55:30,322
I mean, I probably should
have done it in the first place.
929
00:55:30,347 --> 00:55:31,692
Somebody is bound to pick you up.
930
00:55:31,992 --> 00:55:33,860
931
00:55:33,992 --> 00:55:35,016
932
00:55:35,351 --> 00:55:38,457
I see Senator Holt's paddling
in election in your memoir.
933
00:55:39,113 --> 00:55:41,288
Yeah, should read it.
You might learn something.
934
00:55:41,313 --> 00:55:42,500
You write any of it?
935
00:55:42,832 --> 00:55:43,703
Every other word.
936
00:55:44,886 --> 00:55:45,832
That's good, Carl.
937
00:55:46,019 --> 00:55:47,934
Firs time you told
the truth in four years.
938
00:55:48,621 --> 00:55:50,043
What's the matter with you?
939
00:55:50,097 --> 00:55:52,858
You don't want the best
civilian job in the Pentagon?
940
00:55:53,215 --> 00:55:55,554
I mean, This-- This makes you.
941
00:55:55,662 --> 00:55:57,833
Just easy moves
from here on out.
942
00:55:58,340 --> 00:56:00,430
Not to mention, getting you
back to Appropriations.
943
00:56:00,555 --> 00:56:02,215
I need to finish this report.
944
00:56:03,156 --> 00:56:04,564
Are you Kidd---
Look at me.
945
00:56:06,672 --> 00:56:09,457
You're predator, man.
You're goddamn meat-eater.
946
00:56:09,597 --> 00:56:12,992
That single instinct
has taken you very far
947
00:56:13,176 --> 00:56:16,136
in a very short time. So, don't
get sentimental on me now.
948
00:56:16,176 --> 00:56:17,361
So you're gonna...
949
00:56:17,578 --> 00:56:19,647
- patch the review?
- Yeah, absolutely.
950
00:56:20,547 --> 00:56:22,840
I'll send an intern down
to pick it all up.
951
00:56:23,047 --> 00:56:24,054
952
00:56:25,383 --> 00:56:27,852
- Wow.
- Congratulations, man.
953
00:56:34,906 --> 00:56:37,109
I think I'd be better at this
second time around.
954
00:56:37,227 --> 00:56:38,234
Hm..
955
00:56:38,375 --> 00:56:41,609
Well, you could read
the instructions.
956
00:56:42,023 --> 00:56:43,214
That would be cheating.
957
00:56:46,484 --> 00:56:47,777
Stanton was looking for you.
958
00:56:47,945 --> 00:56:49,091
Well, he found me.
959
00:56:50,523 --> 00:56:54,007
I'm on that short list for Assistant
Secretary For Legislative Affairs.
960
00:56:55,687 --> 00:56:57,098
What about David Croft?
961
00:56:57,531 --> 00:56:58,939
Croft's out.
962
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,347
Oh, that's great, then.
963
00:57:01,398 --> 00:57:03,091
It's a career maker.
964
00:57:03,257 --> 00:57:04,498
---
965
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:05,882
View of the river.
966
00:57:06,242 --> 00:57:07,898
Well, since they
threw in their view.
967
00:57:07,930 --> 00:57:08,543
Yeah.
968
00:57:08,711 --> 00:57:09,957
I mean, what's wrong with that?
969
00:57:12,477 --> 00:57:13,918
What about the MOH?
970
00:57:14,977 --> 00:57:17,286
Uh..Pitsenbargers are in town.
971
00:57:17,727 --> 00:57:19,832
Franks having some
tests at the BA.
972
00:57:20,414 --> 00:57:21,422
What's wrong with him?
973
00:57:22,883 --> 00:57:24,226
Ewing's sarcoma.
974
00:57:25,289 --> 00:57:26,297
God.
975
00:57:27,664 --> 00:57:29,277
They're gonna be here
for thanks giving.
976
00:57:30,383 --> 00:57:32,027
Maybe they will see
our situation
977
00:57:32,052 --> 00:57:33,285
and meet Luke and you--
978
00:57:33,310 --> 00:57:35,707
You're not using us
as your excuse.
979
00:57:35,732 --> 00:57:37,973
Our life is not excuse,
Tara, it's a fact.
980
00:57:40,164 --> 00:57:41,514
Besides, Stanton
said he's gonna have
981
00:57:41,539 --> 00:57:43,102
someone pick it up
right where I leave off.
982
00:57:46,188 --> 00:57:47,195
Okay.
983
00:57:52,492 --> 00:57:54,303
We were Michigan
fans long before
984
00:57:54,328 --> 00:57:56,113
we were moved
to Buckeye county.
985
00:57:56,138 --> 00:57:59,438
It's more than a football game when
the Wolverines come to Columbus.
986
00:57:59,492 --> 00:58:00,843
You still go to the game?
987
00:58:00,922 --> 00:58:03,788
- Oh, god, no. Not--
- 1965.
988
00:58:06,234 --> 00:58:07,426
I'm sorry.
989
00:58:08,375 --> 00:58:11,132
Talking about Bill is one of
the greatest joys of our life.
990
00:58:11,766 --> 00:58:12,858
Keeping him alive
991
00:58:13,188 --> 00:58:14,329
keeps us strong.
992
00:58:14,469 --> 00:58:16,184
It's how we balance our grief
993
00:58:16,209 --> 00:58:18,531
and how we live a happy
life without him.
994
00:58:20,894 --> 00:58:21,717
Oh.
995
00:58:21,847 --> 00:58:23,062
Is that a game?
996
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,330
Oh, this is a machine that
gives me my medicine.
997
00:58:29,414 --> 00:58:30,422
Oh.
998
00:58:30,453 --> 00:58:31,711
- We're minutes away.
- Yeah.
999
00:58:31,797 --> 00:58:32,805
We're ready.
1000
00:58:32,922 --> 00:58:34,652
- May I help?
- Oh, uh..
1001
00:58:34,703 --> 00:58:37,113
Luke, honey, why don't show
Alice and Frank your room?
1002
00:58:37,222 --> 00:58:39,019
- Okay, okay.
- Thank you.
1003
00:58:45,906 --> 00:58:47,680
How do you think
I should do this?
1004
00:58:48,578 --> 00:58:49,586
Be honest.
1005
00:58:51,523 --> 00:58:52,531
I meant the turkey.
1006
00:59:11,065 --> 00:59:13,141
1007
00:59:14,683 --> 00:59:18,132
1008
00:59:27,359 --> 00:59:28,367
Scott..
1009
00:59:28,539 --> 00:59:29,746
May I, uh,
1010
00:59:30,266 --> 00:59:31,446
give the blessing?
1011
00:59:32,664 --> 00:59:34,079
Yeah. Of' course.
1012
00:59:35,621 --> 00:59:36,427
Okay.
1013
00:59:37,125 --> 00:59:38,527
Heavenly Father,
1014
00:59:40,180 --> 00:59:42,593
please bless this food
1015
00:59:42,766 --> 00:59:45,687
that it may nourish
this growing family
1016
00:59:46,109 --> 00:59:48,375
and the friendship between us.
1017
00:59:49,250 --> 00:59:51,617
And give praise to this young man
1018
00:59:51,914 --> 00:59:55,445
as he honors us with
his commitment to ensure
1019
00:59:56,391 --> 00:59:58,596
that the sacrifices of the fallen
1020
00:59:59,523 --> 01:00:00,794
were neither in vain
1021
01:00:02,108 --> 01:00:03,853
nor will they ever be forgotten.
1022
01:00:05,891 --> 01:00:06,819
Amen.
1023
01:00:15,516 --> 01:00:16,601
What are you doing, Mister?
1024
01:00:17,578 --> 01:00:18,586
1025
01:00:20,117 --> 01:00:21,715
- What are you doing here?
- Tully
1026
01:00:22,121 --> 01:00:23,496
had your number, so,
1027
01:00:23,769 --> 01:00:26,222
I called and talked to
your wife. Nice woman.
1028
01:00:26,699 --> 01:00:28,258
She told me where you was at.
1029
01:00:29,398 --> 01:00:30,406
Sit down.
1030
01:00:32,586 --> 01:00:33,511
Coffee?
1031
01:00:33,536 --> 01:00:34,544
- No.
- No.
1032
01:00:42,710 --> 01:00:44,900
You tracked me down
to give me this?
1033
01:00:51,211 --> 01:00:52,219
You..
1034
01:00:53,313 --> 01:00:54,572
Never appreciate
1035
01:00:54,828 --> 01:00:56,863
what American artillery can do.
1036
01:00:58,039 --> 01:01:00,215
Do you see it waste
your own people?
1037
01:01:00,797 --> 01:01:02,021
What are you talking about?
1038
01:01:03,383 --> 01:01:05,438
First round kill three,
1039
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,109
ain't no telling how many of the
wounded would've died later..
1040
01:01:09,134 --> 01:01:11,090
..If the VCN got to 'em first.
1041
01:01:12,707 --> 01:01:15,152
If you give your
shooters a good plat
1042
01:01:15,620 --> 01:01:19,160
them red lays could put .105
round inside of pickle bear.
1043
01:01:20,730 --> 01:01:22,785
I got the distance
correction wrong.
1044
01:01:23,656 --> 01:01:25,777
We got thump by
our own shit.
1045
01:01:27,093 --> 01:01:28,234
What are you saying?
1046
01:01:28,738 --> 01:01:30,488
It was blue on blue, brother.
1047
01:01:31,644 --> 01:01:33,886
Friendly fire, ain't no
getting around that.
1048
01:01:34,144 --> 01:01:35,520
Damage. Damage!
1049
01:01:35,874 --> 01:01:37,607
Silo 3 has a fire mission.
1050
01:01:37,632 --> 01:01:38,647
---
1051
01:01:38,672 --> 01:01:40,630
Direction, 3-1-0.
1052
01:01:40,655 --> 01:01:43,262
Distance 300 meters.
1053
01:01:43,324 --> 01:01:45,113
We will adjust.
1054
01:01:45,888 --> 01:01:46,532
Shit.
1055
01:01:46,886 --> 01:01:48,909
Adjust one hundred!
1056
01:01:49,828 --> 01:01:50,771
Fuck!
1057
01:01:50,899 --> 01:01:53,507
What the hell was that?
1058
01:01:54,090 --> 01:01:56,557
1059
01:01:57,121 --> 01:01:58,820
I need the fucking ammo!
1060
01:02:00,234 --> 01:02:01,835
1061
01:02:02,738 --> 01:02:04,028
Man down!
1062
01:02:04,053 --> 01:02:05,808
Silo 3 has fire mission.
1063
01:02:05,833 --> 01:02:08,191
Drop 100.
5-4-6.
1064
01:02:08,216 --> 01:02:10,129
- Make it danger close!
- Roger that, Sergeant.
1065
01:02:10,154 --> 01:02:11,839
Make it danger close!
1066
01:02:13,301 --> 01:02:15,519
Move up!
1067
01:02:24,299 --> 01:02:25,974
Mick!
1068
01:02:26,215 --> 01:02:27,666
- Oh, god.
- Mick!
1069
01:02:28,156 --> 01:02:29,736
So when Tully says
1070
01:02:29,930 --> 01:02:31,905
I'm the one was started it
1071
01:02:32,641 --> 01:02:34,062
that's what he really means.
1072
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:37,336
Truth is
1073
01:02:39,328 --> 01:02:40,938
I killed my own men.
1074
01:02:43,063 --> 01:02:44,747
If I got those numbers right
1075
01:02:46,063 --> 01:02:48,447
Pitsenbarger probably
never even gets that call.
1076
01:02:49,461 --> 01:02:51,691
Never comes down
that wire or never...
1077
01:02:52,898 --> 01:02:54,104
saves my life.
1078
01:02:56,438 --> 01:02:58,379
Maybe he is the one
sitting on a river bank
1079
01:02:58,404 --> 01:03:00,509
somewhere with his
grand kids around.
1080
01:03:00,859 --> 01:03:02,533
And that'd have
been fine by me.
1081
01:03:04,516 --> 01:03:06,269
Instead he is dead,
1082
01:03:08,063 --> 01:03:10,360
and they give me
the goddamn Silver Star.
1083
01:03:11,604 --> 01:03:14,164
For what? ---
1084
01:03:15,633 --> 01:03:19,574
I sit around year and a year out,
thinking about 20 seconds
1085
01:03:19,945 --> 01:03:23,109
32 years ago I wished to
God I can have back.
1086
01:03:25,875 --> 01:03:27,293
Surviving isn't a crime.
1087
01:03:29,445 --> 01:03:30,574
No, it ain't.
1088
01:03:31,180 --> 01:03:32,527
It is a life sentence.
1089
01:03:33,898 --> 01:03:35,769
Getting that medal for Pits
1090
01:03:35,972 --> 01:03:37,930
for his family and
for the men I lost,
1091
01:03:38,902 --> 01:03:41,970
might be the only decent thing
I get to pull out of that war.
1092
01:03:44,051 --> 01:03:45,070
So,
1093
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:47,421
what don't you going
back up to Washington
1094
01:03:47,446 --> 01:03:48,809
and make that
happen, alright?
1095
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:05,008
Daddy!
1096
01:04:06,211 --> 01:04:07,219
Hey!
1097
01:04:07,359 --> 01:04:09,902
I'm thirsty.
1098
01:04:10,328 --> 01:04:12,766
Okay, buddy,
let's get you a drink.
1099
01:04:13,531 --> 01:04:16,183
Daddy, are those the Army
men you're helping?
1100
01:04:16,208 --> 01:04:18,750
1101
01:04:19,703 --> 01:04:22,365
Yeah, they're.
1102
01:04:25,211 --> 01:04:27,191
Do you want me to
be a Army man?
1103
01:04:28,992 --> 01:04:31,125
Hey! What's going on?
1104
01:04:34,422 --> 01:04:35,813
He just needs a drink.
1105
01:04:36,977 --> 01:04:39,785
Oh, I see.
Let's go get you some water, huh?
1106
01:04:40,523 --> 01:04:41,531
Hm h.
1107
01:04:42,164 --> 01:04:44,476
- Everything okay?
- Yeah. I see you in a bit.
1108
01:04:44,676 --> 01:04:46,090
- Okay.
- Alright.
1109
01:04:46,613 --> 01:04:48,250
Let's get you some water.
1110
01:04:54,688 --> 01:04:55,903
--I was
1111
01:04:56,149 --> 01:04:58,515
deployed to Vietnam at
a very interesting point
1112
01:04:58,540 --> 01:05:01,296
during the war and, naturally, what
prompted me to write the book.
1113
01:05:01,695 --> 01:05:03,621
I was initially serving
1114
01:05:03,646 --> 01:05:07,980
as the G-3 Operations Officer
for the first Infantry division.
1115
01:05:08,133 --> 01:05:09,648
The Big Red One.
1116
01:05:10,227 --> 01:05:13,152
And we were deployed, uh,
north west of Saigon.
1117
01:05:13,177 --> 01:05:15,867
And very crucial area
next to the Capital--
1118
01:05:15,953 --> 01:05:17,598
1119
01:05:17,623 --> 01:05:18,496
Hello?
1120
01:05:18,521 --> 01:05:21,492
1121
01:05:27,933 --> 01:05:28,992
Hey.
1122
01:05:29,063 --> 01:05:29,973
Thank you.
1123
01:05:30,037 --> 01:05:31,987
- Where is he? Can I see him?
- Slow down.
1124
01:05:32,930 --> 01:05:33,938
Okay.
1125
01:05:43,484 --> 01:05:44,832
Hey, Frank.
1126
01:05:45,406 --> 01:05:46,652
Got someone
here to see you.
1127
01:05:46,858 --> 01:05:48,083
It's the FNG.
1128
01:05:48,578 --> 01:05:51,250
- Mr. Huffman.
- How are you doing, Frank?
1129
01:05:51,757 --> 01:05:53,596
Oh, the better if I seeing you.
1130
01:05:55,078 --> 01:05:56,469
Thank you for coming.
1131
01:05:56,577 --> 01:05:57,950
Of course.
1132
01:05:59,906 --> 01:06:01,488
He gave me
a call and, uh,
1133
01:06:03,483 --> 01:06:05,245
- here I am.
- Right.
1134
01:06:10,085 --> 01:06:11,210
Is he dying?
1135
01:06:12,242 --> 01:06:14,336
We're all dying someday.
1136
01:06:17,363 --> 01:06:19,019
I think he's holding on
1137
01:06:21,340 --> 01:06:22,988
for you to get this done.
1138
01:06:24,676 --> 01:06:26,380
Why are you in the
middle of everything?
1139
01:06:26,984 --> 01:06:27,992
I mean,..
1140
01:06:28,465 --> 01:06:29,840
What's in it for you?
1141
01:06:30,394 --> 01:06:31,398
He didn't save your life.
1142
01:06:32,551 --> 01:06:34,006
Didn't he?
1143
01:06:35,438 --> 01:06:36,900
So you feel like you owe?
1144
01:06:37,254 --> 01:06:38,863
Ha-ha. Absolutely.
1145
01:06:39,867 --> 01:06:41,798
You asked me if
I had an agenda.
1146
01:06:42,172 --> 01:06:45,439
It's those people upstairs.
1147
01:06:47,108 --> 01:06:48,526
And what about you?
1148
01:06:51,711 --> 01:06:54,890
We'd already been out two
weeks out patrol, but once we
1149
01:06:54,976 --> 01:06:58,204
tangled with those
NVA forces, naturally,
1150
01:06:58,398 --> 01:06:59,960
we got the duty.
1151
01:07:00,125 --> 01:07:01,133
Duty?
1152
01:07:01,297 --> 01:07:04,215
Bait. Brother.
Live bait.
1153
01:07:04,824 --> 01:07:07,105
They first said to make
contact, Alpha and
1154
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:09,566
Bravo would flank and we'd
1155
01:07:09,813 --> 01:07:11,621
grind 'em into the pulp.
1156
01:07:12,726 --> 01:07:14,558
Why don't just ask Jonsie Kepper?
1157
01:07:14,583 --> 01:07:16,672
I mean, he wrote the after action report.
1158
01:07:16,961 --> 01:07:19,238
He's a saige of South East Asia.
1159
01:07:19,639 --> 01:07:21,418
We're hoping that you'd see him.
1160
01:07:21,695 --> 01:07:24,148
There is anyone who knows
where the bodies were buried
1161
01:07:24,187 --> 01:07:26,035
that's Kepper.
1162
01:07:32,105 --> 01:07:33,405
I found this.
1163
01:07:33,652 --> 01:07:36,825
Mili-second 1966
interview with
1164
01:07:37,902 --> 01:07:39,352
Mr.Kurts.
1165
01:07:40,043 --> 01:07:42,472
Expat. Sergeant Jonsie Kepper.
1166
01:07:42,914 --> 01:07:45,547
- He wrote the after action report.
- Apparently.
1167
01:07:45,922 --> 01:07:48,941
What I can't understand is why nobody
from the DOD ever talked to him.
1168
01:07:49,465 --> 01:07:52,421
South East Asia is
supposed to be beautiful.
1169
01:08:32,988 --> 01:08:34,619
- Over there.
- Okay.
1170
01:08:50,870 --> 01:08:52,462
Hi there!
1171
01:09:12,039 --> 01:09:13,367
You pray, Mr. Huffman?
1172
01:09:14,328 --> 01:09:15,421
Not really.
1173
01:09:15,945 --> 01:09:17,033
I didn't either.
1174
01:09:17,422 --> 01:09:18,574
I Prayed that day.
1175
01:09:19,367 --> 01:09:20,816
I prayed for miracle.
1176
01:09:21,375 --> 01:09:22,383
One came.
1177
01:09:22,500 --> 01:09:24,277
His name was Pits.
1178
01:09:24,998 --> 01:09:26,666
We're gonna get you home, hah?
1179
01:09:26,719 --> 01:09:28,467
You good to go back home?
1180
01:09:28,804 --> 01:09:32,095
Alright? You gonna have
one hell of a story to tell her.
1181
01:09:32,968 --> 01:09:34,689
She gonna be impressed
with this one.
1182
01:09:36,281 --> 01:09:38,098
Alright, I got some
pain relief coming up.
1183
01:09:39,616 --> 01:09:41,231
Alright, hold tight, bud.
1184
01:09:41,318 --> 01:09:42,415
Hold tight.
1185
01:09:43,015 --> 01:09:45,088
There you go, buddy.
There you go.
1186
01:09:48,957 --> 01:09:50,949
One. Two. Three. Up.
1187
01:09:56,818 --> 01:09:58,748
Pits, come on!
1188
01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:06,864
- Come on!
- Alright, buddy.
1189
01:10:07,132 --> 01:10:08,550
Here we go.
1190
01:10:11,718 --> 01:10:13,872
Get it up!
1191
01:10:27,073 --> 01:10:28,073
Help!
1192
01:10:42,374 --> 01:10:44,324
Come on!
1193
01:10:44,597 --> 01:10:46,753
Pits, let's go!
1194
01:10:46,875 --> 01:10:48,512
Come on!
1195
01:10:49,827 --> 01:10:51,643
1196
01:11:24,403 --> 01:11:26,114
The after action report
1197
01:11:26,586 --> 01:11:28,298
that you wrote on the battle.
1198
01:11:30,609 --> 01:11:32,003
A lot of it is missing.
1199
01:11:32,352 --> 01:11:33,791
Everything that I wrote
1200
01:11:34,297 --> 01:11:37,289
went up to Saigon Chimney
32 years ago, brother.
1201
01:11:37,719 --> 01:11:39,785
Look, I--I talked to lot of
1202
01:11:40,188 --> 01:11:42,289
guys in Charlie company, and
1203
01:11:43,727 --> 01:11:46,664
no one seems to know,
I mean, who even thought of
1204
01:11:47,031 --> 01:11:49,227
Operation Abilene
in the first place?
1205
01:11:49,352 --> 01:11:51,590
Company CO,
Mad Maddi Holt.
1206
01:11:54,563 --> 01:11:55,956
Madison Holt?
1207
01:11:56,078 --> 01:11:57,086
Colonel.
1208
01:11:57,219 --> 01:11:59,266
He is big shot in
Washington now, I think.
1209
01:12:05,141 --> 01:12:07,379
Yeah, Senator Holt.
1210
01:12:09,121 --> 01:12:11,520
Maybe he gonna be the
Secretary of Defense one day.
1211
01:12:14,727 --> 01:12:16,053
He was a good shield.
1212
01:12:17,155 --> 01:12:19,430
That was a very bad day.
1213
01:12:21,933 --> 01:12:23,797
So why are these vet
come here to see you?
1214
01:12:24,359 --> 01:12:26,330
Why they come here
is not my business.
1215
01:12:27,172 --> 01:12:28,580
And what do you do here?
1216
01:12:29,602 --> 01:12:31,152
I live. I love.
1217
01:12:31,352 --> 01:12:32,359
And listen.
1218
01:12:32,422 --> 01:12:33,793
- So you listen to them?
- Yeah.
1219
01:12:33,818 --> 01:12:35,347
- To the vets?
- Uh-huh.
1220
01:12:36,289 --> 01:12:37,744
I try to re-write the story,
1221
01:12:38,281 --> 01:12:39,330
help 'em.
1222
01:12:39,695 --> 01:12:41,071
But you can't change the past.
1223
01:12:41,305 --> 01:12:43,355
But you can change
your perspective.
1224
01:12:44,226 --> 01:12:45,462
You can create
1225
01:12:45,539 --> 01:12:46,771
new memories,
1226
01:12:46,859 --> 01:12:48,024
happy memories,
1227
01:12:48,078 --> 01:12:49,644
even in a sad place.
1228
01:12:53,234 --> 01:12:54,633
It's choices.
1229
01:12:56,063 --> 01:12:57,546
Our guys come through here?
1230
01:12:58,469 --> 01:13:00,664
People think the war
is who those men are,
1231
01:13:00,689 --> 01:13:02,259
it's not. It's what
happened to 'em.
1232
01:13:03,359 --> 01:13:06,646
They just want to go
through stuff with them.
1233
01:13:08,258 --> 01:13:10,487
Hey.. I wanna
show you something.
1234
01:13:11,582 --> 01:13:12,582
Sh...
1235
01:13:35,211 --> 01:13:36,581
This is incredible.
1236
01:13:39,433 --> 01:13:41,826
I never brought anyone
who'd been feel happy here.
1237
01:13:42,514 --> 01:13:43,895
Oh.
1238
01:13:45,563 --> 01:13:47,059
You did all this?
1239
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:48,535
Yep.
1240
01:13:50,405 --> 01:13:52,269
Oh.
You know where we are?
1241
01:13:54,563 --> 01:13:55,570
Uh...
1242
01:13:57,055 --> 01:13:58,063
no.
1243
01:13:58,977 --> 01:14:00,121
This is where he came down.
1244
01:14:01,102 --> 01:14:02,421
Pits.
1245
01:14:03,644 --> 01:14:05,282
I thought I saw an angel.
1246
01:14:06,711 --> 01:14:08,215
You know, he was
right in front of me,
1247
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:10,366
all clean and pressed.
1248
01:14:10,988 --> 01:14:12,699
Air Force. Hah.
1249
01:14:14,133 --> 01:14:15,354
This is Abilene.
1250
01:14:16,023 --> 01:14:17,850
- Here?
- Right here.
1251
01:14:18,516 --> 01:14:19,797
Under your feet.
1252
01:14:21,656 --> 01:14:23,236
But now it's Avalon.
1253
01:14:24,180 --> 01:14:25,671
Avalon.
1254
01:14:26,999 --> 01:14:28,421
Avalon.
1255
01:14:29,867 --> 01:14:31,516
Now, how can
that be possible
1256
01:14:32,563 --> 01:14:34,822
to have those things
in the same place?
1257
01:14:38,050 --> 01:14:39,759
You just stay here for a while.
1258
01:14:40,648 --> 01:14:41,929
And breath.
1259
01:15:30,957 --> 01:15:32,070
Let it go.
1260
01:16:06,535 --> 01:16:07,938
The veterans
1261
01:16:08,179 --> 01:16:10,037
hold something for all of us.
1262
01:16:11,109 --> 01:16:14,430
They take the shame
of war, denial,
1263
01:16:17,757 --> 01:16:19,046
anger.
1264
01:16:20,164 --> 01:16:21,423
They just come here
1265
01:16:22,241 --> 01:16:23,761
so somebody will
listen to them.
1266
01:16:24,996 --> 01:16:27,433
That's why medals are
so important, they helps..
1267
01:16:27,629 --> 01:16:29,550
Helps bring us together.
1268
01:16:30,180 --> 01:16:31,685
Tell stories.
1269
01:16:32,726 --> 01:16:34,757
I--I'm just a witness.
1270
01:16:35,250 --> 01:16:36,623
You're a witness too.
1271
01:16:41,516 --> 01:16:43,631
The Vietnamese
love their khong loi.
1272
01:16:44,484 --> 01:16:46,466
It's symbolic for letting go.
1273
01:16:47,289 --> 01:16:49,541
And if you have
something that you..
1274
01:16:50,750 --> 01:16:52,255
You want to leave here,
1275
01:16:53,203 --> 01:16:54,545
something you
brought with you,
1276
01:16:55,695 --> 01:16:57,902
you don't want to take back,
1277
01:17:00,070 --> 01:17:01,262
just let go.
1278
01:17:28,984 --> 01:17:30,504
Incoming!
1279
01:17:34,374 --> 01:17:36,266
1280
01:17:36,432 --> 01:17:38,135
1281
01:17:40,167 --> 01:17:41,832
I'm on the hot with red lay!
1282
01:17:41,857 --> 01:17:43,230
Tell him to drop it
on top of 'em.
1283
01:17:43,255 --> 01:17:45,339
Charlie-6, emergency
fire mission.
1284
01:17:47,306 --> 01:17:48,668
1285
01:17:48,693 --> 01:17:50,629
Damage. Damage.
Charlie-6,
1286
01:17:50,668 --> 01:17:52,074
Emergency fire mission.
1287
01:17:52,099 --> 01:17:54,327
Tango, 6-3-3.
1288
01:17:57,785 --> 01:17:59,011
Damn it!
1289
01:18:01,324 --> 01:18:03,269
Damage. Damage.
Charlie-6.
1290
01:18:03,294 --> 01:18:04,567
Emergency fire mission.
1291
01:18:04,592 --> 01:18:06,668
Tango-6-3-3-
1292
01:18:06,693 --> 01:18:09,543
This is broken arrow,
we are being over run.
1293
01:18:09,976 --> 01:18:11,695
Hold this, keep
the pressure on it.
1294
01:18:11,957 --> 01:18:13,548
Somebody still out there!
1295
01:18:16,976 --> 01:18:18,504
I need you to do
me a favour.
1296
01:18:19,302 --> 01:18:21,730
- I need to get this to someone.
- No.
1297
01:18:21,871 --> 01:18:23,532
- Please.
- No!
1298
01:18:23,693 --> 01:18:24,895
Just stamp.
1299
01:18:26,238 --> 01:18:28,168
- I'll hold on to it until you get back.
- Okay.
1300
01:18:28,523 --> 01:18:30,415
1301
01:18:32,668 --> 01:18:33,908
What are you doing, man?
1302
01:18:34,734 --> 01:18:37,269
You have done enough, brother.
You be still.
1303
01:18:37,294 --> 01:18:39,185
Come on!
1304
01:18:51,285 --> 01:18:53,252
Pits came down and save lives.
1305
01:18:53,277 --> 01:18:54,729
Evaced wounded.
1306
01:18:54,731 --> 01:18:58,027
Fought and died alongside men
he never even knew.
1307
01:19:00,500 --> 01:19:02,744
You pray Mr. Huffman?
1308
01:19:03,123 --> 01:19:04,459
I prayed that day.
1309
01:19:04,811 --> 01:19:06,238
I Prayed for miracle.
1310
01:19:07,492 --> 01:19:09,543
I ain't never seen
nobody died before.
1311
01:19:09,918 --> 01:19:12,007
Coming out!
1312
01:19:13,340 --> 01:19:16,498
That little matter sucked
all the past right out of me.
1313
01:19:17,269 --> 01:19:19,136
You understand
what I'm saying, sir?
1314
01:19:24,034 --> 01:19:26,352
All those hellfire coming in,
1315
01:19:26,664 --> 01:19:28,163
to him it was like
1316
01:19:29,639 --> 01:19:31,291
nothing could've hurt him.
1317
01:19:31,658 --> 01:19:34,500
He was there to save lives,
and that's what he was doing.
1318
01:19:37,124 --> 01:19:40,160
Who knows how many guys walk
around life today because of him,
1319
01:19:40,953 --> 01:19:42,589
what he'd done.
1320
01:19:44,523 --> 01:19:46,341
But he didn't come back.
1321
01:19:49,074 --> 01:19:51,664
I felt like the best part of
me went down with him.
1322
01:19:54,941 --> 01:19:57,502
I still think about it this day.
1323
01:19:58,410 --> 01:20:00,986
If anybody deserved to
get out of that hell alive
1324
01:20:01,273 --> 01:20:02,643
it was him.
1325
01:20:08,133 --> 01:20:09,499
Make yourself at home.
1326
01:20:11,023 --> 01:20:12,918
You know, I can
have you arrested.
1327
01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:15,676
Senator Madison Holt.
1328
01:20:15,701 --> 01:20:17,801
Formally Colonel Madison Holt.
1329
01:20:17,926 --> 01:20:20,499
1st Infantry division,
on the big red one.
1330
01:20:20,836 --> 01:20:24,330
Senator’s distinguished to Military
career's a matter of public record.
1331
01:20:24,438 --> 01:20:26,089
It's undisputed.
1332
01:20:26,414 --> 01:20:27,895
I'm bought the book, Carl.
1333
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:31,090
Yeah? Did you read it?
Or did you just look at the pictures.
1334
01:20:31,371 --> 01:20:34,382
Holt of part of the brass that
cooked up Operation Abilene.
1335
01:20:35,172 --> 01:20:36,457
You're not really suggesting
1336
01:20:36,482 --> 01:20:39,319
that Holt ordered
and NVA ambush?
1337
01:20:39,344 --> 01:20:40,824
I'm suggesting that would be
1338
01:20:40,875 --> 01:20:43,046
pretty convenient for you to
keep that off the record.
1339
01:20:43,523 --> 01:20:45,730
Which is why you put me
on him, because...
1340
01:20:46,227 --> 01:20:47,480
you knew I'd dump it.
1341
01:20:48,398 --> 01:20:51,465
You know, Holt's gonna be Secretary of
Defense someday, maybe even President.
1342
01:20:52,125 --> 01:20:53,883
You had them.
1343
01:20:54,188 --> 01:20:56,914
Command endorsements, all this time.
1344
01:21:00,023 --> 01:21:01,402
I'm taking them.
1345
01:21:01,953 --> 01:21:04,582
Have you ever been the subject
of opposition research?
1346
01:21:05,452 --> 01:21:07,072
Because if you
even twitch on this,
1347
01:21:07,097 --> 01:21:09,058
I will have them on
you like spray paint.
1348
01:21:09,570 --> 01:21:11,976
You will never get another
mortgage, passport or
1349
01:21:12,805 --> 01:21:15,238
Sam's Club membership card,
1350
01:21:16,234 --> 01:21:18,261
let alone a political appointment.
1351
01:21:21,305 --> 01:21:22,865
But I'm not worried
about all that.
1352
01:21:23,773 --> 01:21:24,753
Why not?
1353
01:21:24,754 --> 01:21:27,758
Because it's not in your
nature to spit in face of the man
1354
01:21:27,783 --> 01:21:29,738
who could just as easily make you.
1355
01:21:30,398 --> 01:21:31,406
What's my nature?
1356
01:21:31,438 --> 01:21:33,705
Climb, prosper,
expand the Jean-Paul,
1357
01:21:33,930 --> 01:21:35,216
just like the rest of us.
1358
01:21:36,202 --> 01:21:39,636
I'd appreciate if you'd leave
the place the way you found it.
1359
01:21:39,678 --> 01:21:40,686
And..
1360
01:21:41,332 --> 01:21:42,553
Don't forget,
1361
01:21:42,805 --> 01:21:44,335
we get to squash.
1362
01:21:44,727 --> 01:21:45,962
Wednesday.
1363
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:54,545
Jenny..
1364
01:21:55,063 --> 01:21:58,430
Sometimes it's difficult to understand
why we've been sent here.
1365
01:21:58,965 --> 01:22:01,235
Or to explain what happens.
1366
01:22:01,871 --> 01:22:03,920
I have only have minutes since
we got a call in 'em pickups
1367
01:22:03,945 --> 01:22:06,717
near Xa Ca May, about
30 clicks from here.
1368
01:22:08,043 --> 01:22:09,311
You know, Jenny..
1369
01:22:09,879 --> 01:22:12,159
The only thing I fear of dying
1370
01:22:12,433 --> 01:22:14,386
is the dreams of
you won't come.
1371
01:22:15,164 --> 01:22:16,879
The Death is dark
1372
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:21,083
and still, and endless
like these jungle nights.
1373
01:22:23,035 --> 01:22:24,864
But sometimes I think, Jen..
1374
01:22:25,332 --> 01:22:27,636
Maybe it's this place
I'll wake up from.
1375
01:22:28,172 --> 01:22:30,449
Safe and warm
in your bed.
1376
01:22:30,953 --> 01:22:32,904
The morning lights
dreaming in.
1377
01:22:36,043 --> 01:22:38,192
But if it the thunder
here this real,
1378
01:22:38,605 --> 01:22:40,956
and if this letter should
reach you instead of me
1379
01:22:41,953 --> 01:22:43,792
then know that I'm never far.
1380
01:22:45,218 --> 01:22:46,707
Take care of mom,
1381
01:22:46,750 --> 01:22:48,640
and specially dad, because..
1382
01:22:48,858 --> 01:22:50,591
He will take this worst of all.
1383
01:22:51,316 --> 01:22:52,762
Tell them I'm sorry
1384
01:22:52,945 --> 01:22:54,482
for what I've put them through,
1385
01:22:55,046 --> 01:22:56,850
but that I'm sure
of my purpose
1386
01:22:57,302 --> 01:22:59,376
and in the words
we all believe:
1387
01:23:00,375 --> 01:23:02,009
"These things we do
1388
01:23:02,127 --> 01:23:03,894
that others may live."
1389
01:23:04,957 --> 01:23:05,769
Bill.
1390
01:23:11,523 --> 01:23:13,337
You have an impeccable record.
1391
01:23:14,422 --> 01:23:17,061
The secretary is giving you
his highest recommendation.
1392
01:23:17,766 --> 01:23:19,056
Thank you, sir.
1393
01:23:19,484 --> 01:23:21,640
So why do you think you'd be
effective in this position?
1394
01:23:23,125 --> 01:23:24,440
Well,
1395
01:23:24,781 --> 01:23:26,593
I'm connecting,
1396
01:23:27,180 --> 01:23:29,492
ambitious, persuasive,
1397
01:23:30,898 --> 01:23:32,656
not afraid to make
enemies and..
1398
01:23:32,694 --> 01:23:34,700
I' want this job more
than anybody.
1399
01:23:35,710 --> 01:23:38,362
At least that's what I would
have said a month ago.
1400
01:23:39,211 --> 01:23:40,219
Okay.
1401
01:23:41,523 --> 01:23:42,531
And today?
1402
01:23:44,648 --> 01:23:46,125
Today I'm...
1403
01:23:47,444 --> 01:23:48,734
..just unavailable.
1404
01:23:52,515 --> 01:23:54,742
1405
01:23:54,767 --> 01:23:56,650
1406
01:23:57,668 --> 01:23:58,748
Air Force?
1407
01:24:00,328 --> 01:24:01,336
Yeah.
1408
01:24:03,031 --> 01:24:04,673
I'm sorry about
your buddy, man.
1409
01:24:07,429 --> 01:24:08,825
I'm so sorry.
1410
01:24:33,883 --> 01:24:36,426
The whole time I'm washing him.
1411
01:24:37,891 --> 01:24:39,148
You know, his feet,
1412
01:24:39,632 --> 01:24:40,883
his hands,
1413
01:24:46,648 --> 01:24:48,002
I didn't feel anything.
1414
01:24:49,508 --> 01:24:50,767
Nothing.
1415
01:24:51,867 --> 01:24:54,024
That's when I knew
I'd been there..
1416
01:24:54,797 --> 01:24:55,805
Too long.
1417
01:24:57,633 --> 01:24:58,999
I shipped him back,
1418
01:24:59,977 --> 01:25:02,715
and I finished my tour and
I got on with my life.
1419
01:25:07,242 --> 01:25:08,450
Did you?
1420
01:25:09,156 --> 01:25:10,481
Did I what?
1421
01:25:10,891 --> 01:25:12,357
Get on with life?
1422
01:25:14,085 --> 01:25:15,511
I'm standing here.
1423
01:25:18,586 --> 01:25:19,593
You know,
1424
01:25:21,055 --> 01:25:22,455
when I was five years old,
1425
01:25:24,102 --> 01:25:25,360
I watched my father
1426
01:25:25,695 --> 01:25:27,847
pack up his things in his car and
1427
01:25:28,430 --> 01:25:29,785
leave my mother and me.
1428
01:25:31,938 --> 01:25:33,269
I was so afraid.
1429
01:25:34,890 --> 01:25:36,196
It hurt so much.
1430
01:25:38,336 --> 01:25:39,941
I ran out to the driveway
1431
01:25:40,602 --> 01:25:41,997
and I
1432
01:25:42,656 --> 01:25:45,901
shove my hand in
the car door as he
1433
01:25:45,984 --> 01:25:47,865
slammed it shut.
1434
01:25:48,750 --> 01:25:50,601
I thought that if
he saw I was injured
1435
01:25:50,626 --> 01:25:52,348
and really hurt
and he would
1436
01:25:53,148 --> 01:25:54,853
have to take me to
the Hospital and
1437
01:25:55,172 --> 01:25:56,350
doctor would
1438
01:25:56,680 --> 01:25:58,727
tell him to stay
and take care of me.
1439
01:26:01,602 --> 01:26:03,004
But he'd just roll away.
1440
01:26:05,671 --> 01:26:08,358
I chase his car down the street,
1441
01:26:08,406 --> 01:26:10,086
my hand all mangled and
1442
01:26:12,672 --> 01:26:14,022
tell my mother
1443
01:26:14,367 --> 01:26:15,783
he scooped me up.
1444
01:26:20,437 --> 01:26:22,476
You know, you were marked.
1445
01:26:24,508 --> 01:26:25,516
Just like you.
1446
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:31,426
What happened to you on
1447
01:26:31,617 --> 01:26:33,750
April 11th, 1966?
1448
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:36,413
My friend died.
1449
01:26:37,023 --> 01:26:38,464
What happened to you?
1450
01:26:40,688 --> 01:26:41,820
I told you.
1451
01:26:41,961 --> 01:26:43,173
It's okay.
1452
01:26:43,930 --> 01:26:45,395
It's not okay.
1453
01:26:45,476 --> 01:26:47,225
- It's just--
- Nothing about it is okay.
1454
01:26:47,258 --> 01:26:49,023
Just tell me.
1455
01:26:49,367 --> 01:26:51,610
What is it? What--
What was it? What happened?
1456
01:26:53,086 --> 01:26:55,527
He died.
He got killed. He--
1457
01:26:56,008 --> 01:26:57,167
got shot in the
1458
01:26:57,211 --> 01:26:58,393
head, and
1459
01:26:58,672 --> 01:27:00,428
- you know, it's war.
- Right.
1460
01:27:00,508 --> 01:27:02,025
Right, it was war, so
1461
01:27:02,273 --> 01:27:04,054
how long are you
gonna punish yourself?
1462
01:27:04,079 --> 01:27:06,008
Punish myself?
1463
01:27:06,047 --> 01:27:07,420
What was the thing you did?
1464
01:27:07,563 --> 01:27:09,026
- What I'd do?
- Yeah.
1465
01:27:09,430 --> 01:27:11,742
- Just tell me, what was the thing you did?
- Now, you stop it.
1466
01:27:11,767 --> 01:27:13,414
- Just want to talk--
- Stop! Stop you
1467
01:27:13,439 --> 01:27:15,703
- son of a bitch! Stop it!
- You didn't say it.
1468
01:27:16,711 --> 01:27:17,997
Say what?
1469
01:27:19,133 --> 01:27:20,693
He knew it was dangerous.
1470
01:27:20,711 --> 01:27:22,048
I told him
1471
01:27:22,734 --> 01:27:24,283
to be goddamn careful and--
1472
01:27:25,157 --> 01:27:26,547
And, what?
1473
01:27:27,031 --> 01:27:28,843
No, no,no, no.
1474
01:27:28,930 --> 01:27:30,242
- I'm not doing--
- Doing what?
1475
01:27:30,267 --> 01:27:31,858
Doing this.
1476
01:27:32,852 --> 01:27:35,047
I told him to come back up,
1477
01:27:35,140 --> 01:27:37,453
get back on the wire,
get back in the ship.
1478
01:27:37,781 --> 01:27:39,820
He didn't do that.
Why he didn't do that?
1479
01:27:39,906 --> 01:27:41,883
Get back in the ship.
- Because he couldn't.
1480
01:27:41,908 --> 01:27:43,586
- Because people needed him.
- Yeah? Yeah?
1481
01:27:43,611 --> 01:27:46,494
Yeah? Yeah?
Well, fuck you! And--
1482
01:27:49,664 --> 01:27:50,871
Oh, god.
1483
01:28:00,367 --> 01:28:01,727
It's got to hurt to
be mad at him.
1484
01:28:01,938 --> 01:28:02,945
Yes.
1485
01:28:04,609 --> 01:28:06,136
What else happened
to you, Tom?
1486
01:28:06,445 --> 01:28:09,281
I--I stayed in the bird.
1487
01:28:10,039 --> 01:28:12,827
I--I--
I didn't go down, I--
1488
01:28:14,398 --> 01:28:16,248
I was relieved. I--
1489
01:28:16,695 --> 01:28:18,828
I stayed, you know,
where it was safe.
1490
01:28:22,188 --> 01:28:24,148
God, when I found him
1491
01:28:25,359 --> 01:28:26,750
I was..
1492
01:28:29,617 --> 01:28:31,040
I was glad
1493
01:28:33,476 --> 01:28:35,633
that it wasn't me.
1494
01:28:35,781 --> 01:28:38,836
I didn't wanna be dead
and I was alive and
1495
01:28:42,016 --> 01:28:42,954
it felt good.
1496
01:28:42,979 --> 01:28:45,646
- You did feel something.
- Yeah, I felt the shame!
1497
01:28:52,859 --> 01:28:54,535
You're not a coward, Tom.
1498
01:28:57,898 --> 01:28:59,721
You're a hero.
1499
01:29:02,375 --> 01:29:04,378
Deal with that.
1500
01:29:07,148 --> 01:29:08,621
Just let me..
1501
01:29:09,391 --> 01:29:11,234
Let me have it for a while.
Come on.
1502
01:29:28,016 --> 01:29:29,171
You, uh,
1503
01:29:29,273 --> 01:29:30,671
know what I want?
1504
01:29:30,945 --> 01:29:33,117
I do.
1505
01:29:36,172 --> 01:29:38,015
I want some grace.
1506
01:29:38,133 --> 01:29:40,001
I want some serenity.
1507
01:29:40,258 --> 01:29:42,937
I want country to
honor my brother
1508
01:29:43,219 --> 01:29:45,070
before his parents.
1509
01:29:46,945 --> 01:29:49,332
I want my friend, your friend,
1510
01:29:52,085 --> 01:29:53,829
I want his father to
1511
01:29:54,101 --> 01:29:56,622
leave this place in peace.
1512
01:30:01,585 --> 01:30:02,593
Oh..
1513
01:30:21,461 --> 01:30:22,812
Can I get you anything else, Senator?
1514
01:30:22,837 --> 01:30:24,327
- No, thanks, hon.
- You can put out my number.
1515
01:30:24,351 --> 01:30:25,522
- Okay.
- Thank you.
1516
01:30:25,523 --> 01:30:27,281
Gentlemen. Hey, Carl.
1517
01:30:27,757 --> 01:30:29,120
Colonel.
1518
01:30:29,398 --> 01:30:30,551
Do I know you?
1519
01:30:30,632 --> 01:30:32,058
I'm sure hope so.
1520
01:30:32,297 --> 01:30:33,981
Master Sergeant Thomas Tully.
1521
01:30:34,023 --> 01:30:36,734
38th rescue squadron,
Operation Abilene.
1522
01:30:36,773 --> 01:30:38,633
Uh, you want to speak
to the Senator
1523
01:30:38,658 --> 01:30:40,623
- you get a few channels.
- It's alright, Colonel.
1524
01:30:41,180 --> 01:30:42,443
I'll talk to these men.
1525
01:30:43,430 --> 01:30:44,830
Sir, this is a
1526
01:30:45,039 --> 01:30:48,914
1966 routing memo between
you and General Heckmyer,
1527
01:30:49,078 --> 01:30:52,149
downgrading the William H.
Pitsenbarger's Medal of Honor request
1528
01:30:52,174 --> 01:30:53,248
to an Air Force Cross.
1529
01:30:53,273 --> 01:30:55,593
It's dated on October 7th, 1966.
1530
01:30:55,725 --> 01:30:57,230
Guys, you might give
us a second?
1531
01:30:57,578 --> 01:30:58,851
Good.
1532
01:31:01,977 --> 01:31:03,269
Take a seat.
1533
01:31:05,711 --> 01:31:07,375
We have an opportunity
1534
01:31:07,758 --> 01:31:09,338
to upgrade the Cross
1535
01:31:09,813 --> 01:31:11,386
to the Medal of Honor.
1536
01:31:11,781 --> 01:31:13,167
To cut through the bullshit
1537
01:31:13,641 --> 01:31:15,523
we need a Congressional sponsor.
1538
01:31:15,750 --> 01:31:17,562
Mr.Stanton doesn't
think you'd favor
1539
01:31:17,587 --> 01:31:20,592
the publicity of being associated
with Operation Abilene
1540
01:31:20,617 --> 01:31:21,858
during an election year.
1541
01:31:21,883 --> 01:31:23,649
You have no idea
what you're starting.
1542
01:31:24,554 --> 01:31:26,116
I think I do, Carl.
1543
01:31:27,047 --> 01:31:28,399
1544
01:31:28,406 --> 01:31:30,929
Did you ever been the subject
of opposition research?
1545
01:31:31,171 --> 01:31:34,274
Because of even twitch on this
I will have them on you like
1546
01:31:34,299 --> 01:31:35,568
spray paint.
1547
01:31:36,750 --> 01:31:38,281
Information was removed
1548
01:31:38,376 --> 01:31:40,103
from the original package
1549
01:31:40,211 --> 01:31:42,860
to disqualify the
Decorations Board's review
1550
01:31:42,885 --> 01:31:44,586
for Congressional reapplication.
1551
01:31:44,672 --> 01:31:46,782
We have since recovered
those documents.
1552
01:31:47,242 --> 01:31:49,719
This -- This communication
1553
01:31:49,744 --> 01:31:52,515
simply response to the
Colonel’s MOH request,
1554
01:31:52,540 --> 01:31:55,711
saying that Air Force Cross
was awarded instead.
1555
01:31:55,922 --> 01:31:58,149
That's pretty opened
to interpretation.
1556
01:31:58,174 --> 01:32:01,446
Uh, you're under no obligation
to respond any of this.
1557
01:32:01,471 --> 01:32:04,453
If you'd send it up the chain
1558
01:32:04,765 --> 01:32:06,422
why didn't he get it then?
1559
01:32:07,930 --> 01:32:09,351
Honestly, I don't know.
1560
01:32:09,945 --> 01:32:11,041
Maybe it
1561
01:32:11,469 --> 01:32:13,126
fell through the cracks somewhere.
1562
01:32:13,250 --> 01:32:14,844
Maybe Mcfee didn't wanna
1563
01:32:15,008 --> 01:32:16,577
call too much attention
to one of them
1564
01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:18,351
bloodiest days of the war.
1565
01:32:19,125 --> 01:32:20,133
Or
1566
01:32:20,625 --> 01:32:21,785
maybe I just didn't
1567
01:32:21,844 --> 01:32:24,209
fight hard enough to get this
man what he deserves.
1568
01:32:24,234 --> 01:32:27,912
Senator, your political enemies
will take full advantage
1569
01:32:27,937 --> 01:32:30,453
of any admission
of wrong doing, your
1570
01:32:30,478 --> 01:32:32,814
Military judgment would
be called into question,
1571
01:32:32,839 --> 01:32:34,645
and they will turn this whole
deal to a Medina snare.
1572
01:32:35,016 --> 01:32:36,842
He's right, sir.
They might.
1573
01:32:40,141 --> 01:32:41,659
What happened on
1574
01:32:42,891 --> 01:32:44,220
Operation Abilene
1575
01:32:44,758 --> 01:32:46,614
one of the darkest
days of my life.
1576
01:32:47,344 --> 01:32:48,677
You're hurt, Lieutenant.
1577
01:32:49,492 --> 01:32:50,790
Why are you still here?
1578
01:32:52,305 --> 01:32:54,508
I won't leave till you
have all my wounded.
1579
01:32:58,977 --> 01:33:00,273
What happened here?
1580
01:33:02,070 --> 01:33:04,020
You marched us
right into a kill sack
1581
01:33:04,045 --> 01:33:05,919
with no idea how we
were gonna get out.
1582
01:33:07,414 --> 01:33:08,837
That's what happened here.
1583
01:33:09,242 --> 01:33:12,352
Can somebody explain this to me?!
1584
01:33:13,844 --> 01:33:15,055
Can somebody
1585
01:33:15,203 --> 01:33:17,167
explain this to me?!
1586
01:33:18,328 --> 01:33:19,601
You tell me!
1587
01:33:19,938 --> 01:33:22,013
You know, I think we all
died a little bit that day.
1588
01:33:22,038 --> 01:33:23,605
You tell me!
1589
01:33:24,297 --> 01:33:26,927
Mistakes were made,
this was probably one of 'em.
1590
01:33:27,546 --> 01:33:30,226
We went to see General
Heckmyer, at the VA.
1591
01:33:30,359 --> 01:33:31,902
He verifies your story, sir.
1592
01:33:32,094 --> 01:33:33,441
Senator, please.
1593
01:33:33,547 --> 01:33:35,545
It's my job to protect you.
1594
01:33:35,648 --> 01:33:38,219
- Protect me from what, Carl?
- From everything.
1595
01:33:42,844 --> 01:33:45,279
Usually we're judged
by what we do,
1596
01:33:47,008 --> 01:33:49,086
but I find that
what we don't do
1597
01:33:49,938 --> 01:33:51,261
is what haunts us.
1598
01:33:52,023 --> 01:33:53,310
Here's the plan.
1599
01:33:54,508 --> 01:33:56,638
We're gonna roll the dice,
we're gonna go
1600
01:33:56,663 --> 01:33:58,203
with the truth,
1601
01:33:59,141 --> 01:34:02,717
no matter how uncommon
or uncomfortable that maybe.
1602
01:34:03,443 --> 01:34:04,531
Mr.Chairman.
1603
01:34:04,633 --> 01:34:05,865
I refer you to
1604
01:34:05,890 --> 01:34:07,759
S-2549,
1605
01:34:07,773 --> 01:34:09,560
page 44,
1606
01:34:09,710 --> 01:34:12,133
title 5, Military Personnel Policy,
1607
01:34:12,820 --> 01:34:14,627
subtitle E, Other Matters.
1608
01:34:15,094 --> 01:34:17,734
- Yes?
- This amendment authorizes..
1609
01:34:17,789 --> 01:34:19,337
A posthumous Medal Of Honor
1610
01:34:19,422 --> 01:34:22,938
For Air Force Staff Sergeant,
William H. Pitsenbarger.
1611
01:34:23,945 --> 01:34:26,250
For conspicuous gallantry in action
1612
01:34:26,311 --> 01:34:29,276
in Vietnam, 11th April, 1966
1613
01:34:29,310 --> 01:34:32,327
- during Operation Abilene.
- Uh, Mr.Chairman, point of order?
1614
01:34:32,969 --> 01:34:36,357
The Chair recognizes the distinguished
gentleman from North Carolina.
1615
01:34:36,750 --> 01:34:39,756
The rules of this committee
prohibit Authorization language
1616
01:34:39,781 --> 01:34:42,263
to be included in this
Appropriations bill.
1617
01:34:42,288 --> 01:34:43,296
Will the chair yield?
1618
01:34:43,383 --> 01:34:44,391
Chair apologizes
1619
01:34:44,438 --> 01:34:45,867
to the gentleman of Ohio
1620
01:34:45,938 --> 01:34:47,266
but this committee
has much business
1621
01:34:47,367 --> 01:34:48,375
before it today,
1622
01:34:48,523 --> 01:34:49,531
and so, we must move on.
1623
01:34:49,633 --> 01:34:50,867
Mr.Chairman, I
1624
01:34:50,945 --> 01:34:53,234
- sincerely appreciate it, but it should be
- Mr. Chairman!
1625
01:34:53,266 --> 01:34:55,400
Obvious there is absolutely
nothing in this amendment--
1626
01:34:55,425 --> 01:34:57,066
The Vietnam war was over.
1627
01:34:57,555 --> 01:34:59,738
- Long ago.
- I know, Bob, I was there.
1628
01:34:59,776 --> 01:35:01,652
Then maybe you
should take a rest.
1629
01:35:02,382 --> 01:35:04,076
Stop kicking that dead horse.
1630
01:35:04,874 --> 01:35:06,469
Gentleman, this is point of order.
1631
01:35:06,502 --> 01:35:08,142
I'm sorry, we must move on.
1632
01:35:09,047 --> 01:35:11,086
Chair recognizes
the lady from Florida.
1633
01:35:11,228 --> 01:35:13,164
Uh, yes.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
1634
01:35:15,968 --> 01:35:17,793
Senator, what the hell
happened in there?
1635
01:35:18,125 --> 01:35:20,507
That distinguished gentleman from
North Carolina shut us down,
1636
01:35:20,532 --> 01:35:22,318
- that's what the hell happened.
- Just like that?
1637
01:35:22,836 --> 01:35:24,656
Look, it's payback, alright?
1638
01:35:24,681 --> 01:35:27,164
I Harpooned the tobacco
subsidies in his last session.
1639
01:35:27,189 --> 01:35:28,179
Unfortunately,
1640
01:35:28,219 --> 01:35:30,812
he's a ranking member so
there is not a lot I can do about it.
1641
01:35:32,016 --> 01:35:33,140
But I promise you,
1642
01:35:33,305 --> 01:35:36,355
I will get this in
next years bill.
1643
01:35:36,594 --> 01:35:39,101
Hopefully, by that time the distinguished
gentleman would be dead.
1644
01:35:39,313 --> 01:35:41,037
So will Pitsenbargers father.
1645
01:35:41,234 --> 01:35:42,882
- What?
- He's dying, sir.
1646
01:35:45,016 --> 01:35:46,295
Oh, Jesus.
1647
01:35:46,391 --> 01:35:47,637
I didn't know about that. I'm..
1648
01:35:47,750 --> 01:35:48,850
Sorry.
1649
01:35:49,086 --> 01:35:50,278
I'm truly sorry.
1650
01:35:57,078 --> 01:35:58,220
So that's it?
1651
01:35:59,297 --> 01:36:03,976
Unless he give the tobacco subsidy
to the Senator from North Carolina.
1652
01:36:05,516 --> 01:36:06,843
What about those men?
1653
01:36:09,156 --> 01:36:10,528
What about Pits?
1654
01:36:11,828 --> 01:36:14,109
Holt says he will get it
on the bill next year.
1655
01:36:17,391 --> 01:36:18,812
And Frank?
1656
01:36:21,797 --> 01:36:24,288
I can't cure a cancer, Tara.
1657
01:36:27,594 --> 01:36:30,869
If I push this any harder
I really ruin my career.
1658
01:36:37,109 --> 01:36:38,513
It's interesting.
1659
01:36:38,797 --> 01:36:39,805
What?
1660
01:36:40,695 --> 01:36:41,888
In 12 years
1661
01:36:42,031 --> 01:36:44,921
I have never seen you
back off of anything.
1662
01:36:46,594 --> 01:36:47,908
I'm scared.
1663
01:36:57,844 --> 01:36:59,074
Fear
1664
01:36:59,195 --> 01:37:00,499
is good.
1665
01:37:01,148 --> 01:37:03,281
Fear is a survival instinct.
1666
01:37:04,641 --> 01:37:07,013
You're supposed to be afraid.
1667
01:37:09,015 --> 01:37:10,742
Use it.
1668
01:37:20,211 --> 01:37:23,820
You turned down a significant
career opportunity to finish this.
1669
01:37:26,813 --> 01:37:28,154
Did you figured out why
1670
01:37:28,250 --> 01:37:31,782
four star Generals and Presidents
would trade legacies for a medal?
1671
01:37:35,757 --> 01:37:38,281
Because they know that
guys like Pitsenbarger
1672
01:37:38,306 --> 01:37:40,042
don't do what
they do for them.
1673
01:37:42,125 --> 01:37:43,564
They do it for each other.
1674
01:37:45,023 --> 01:37:46,397
A life for a life.
1675
01:37:47,297 --> 01:37:48,579
That's big stuff.
1676
01:37:51,812 --> 01:37:54,019
There are worst things that
can happen to a man
1677
01:37:54,109 --> 01:37:55,911
than getting killed in a war.
1678
01:37:56,469 --> 01:37:57,477
Like?
1679
01:37:57,633 --> 01:37:58,641
Like..
1680
01:37:58,750 --> 01:37:59,758
Losing men,
1681
01:38:00,406 --> 01:38:01,414
losing a child,
1682
01:38:02,445 --> 01:38:03,453
a father,
1683
01:38:04,445 --> 01:38:05,453
having to live with that.
1684
01:38:08,078 --> 01:38:10,469
And you think a piece of ribbon
is gonna change that?
1685
01:38:20,195 --> 01:38:21,719
I'm gonna go
public with the story.
1686
01:38:22,914 --> 01:38:24,248
I'm gonna name names.
1687
01:38:25,703 --> 01:38:29,195
Shaming the Appropriations in
front of the Washington press core
1688
01:38:29,220 --> 01:38:31,977
on the eve of a national
election sounds
1689
01:38:32,664 --> 01:38:34,071
a little dangerous.
1690
01:38:35,688 --> 01:38:36,695
Yeah.
1691
01:38:37,500 --> 01:38:38,916
But it will be great.
1692
01:38:43,101 --> 01:38:44,195
Well done.
1693
01:38:45,031 --> 01:38:45,874
Thank you.
1694
01:38:47,843 --> 01:38:48,735
Mr. Huffman.
1695
01:38:48,868 --> 01:38:50,453
I'm Mary,
1696
01:38:50,478 --> 01:38:52,053
- We're gonna put a wire on you.
- Okay.
1697
01:38:52,289 --> 01:38:53,349
We have you on the split screen
1698
01:38:53,374 --> 01:38:54,922
so the anchors are
gonna be able to hear you,
1699
01:38:54,947 --> 01:38:56,344
but they're not gonna
be able to see you.
1700
01:38:56,656 --> 01:38:58,500
- Okay.
- Alright, come with me.
1701
01:39:03,460 --> 01:39:04,858
Daddy, are you nervous?
1702
01:39:05,765 --> 01:39:06,960
I am, but
1703
01:39:07,107 --> 01:39:08,298
I'm not afraid.
1704
01:39:14,098 --> 01:39:15,698
Alright. All set.
1705
01:39:16,195 --> 01:39:19,476
In an unusual move today, a member
of the Department of the Air Force
1706
01:39:19,501 --> 01:39:21,155
a gentleman named
Scott Huffman
1707
01:39:21,286 --> 01:39:25,031
went before cameras to accuse high
ranking Senators and their staffs
1708
01:39:25,195 --> 01:39:28,178
of playing political football
with Military valor.
1709
01:39:28,203 --> 01:39:30,789
--HR to send
Appropriations bill,
1710
01:39:30,814 --> 01:39:34,234
it stalled in the Senate when a
Pentagon staffer and his lawmakers--
1711
01:39:34,259 --> 01:39:38,054
It's a bill including a recommendation
for a posthumous Medal of Honor
1712
01:39:38,132 --> 01:39:41,397
for William H. Pitsenbarger is
now heading to The Oval Office
1713
01:39:41,422 --> 01:39:44,554
and President Clinton is
expected to sign that bill.
1714
01:39:46,203 --> 01:39:48,859
- Hi. Thank you. Thank you.
- Good afternoon, sir.
1715
01:39:48,914 --> 01:39:50,313
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
1716
01:39:50,338 --> 01:39:51,967
1717
01:39:53,429 --> 01:39:55,327
An airman named
Bill pitsenbarger
1718
01:39:55,352 --> 01:39:56,914
will be awarded the Medal of Honor
1719
01:39:56,939 --> 01:39:58,708
today for his service in Vietnam.
1720
01:39:58,945 --> 01:40:01,745
He gave his country what
Abraham Lincoln once called:
1721
01:40:02,000 --> 01:40:03,790
"The last full measure."
1722
01:40:04,338 --> 01:40:07,822
The US Air Force Museum
1723
01:40:13,844 --> 01:40:14,822
I'll be right back.
1724
01:40:26,969 --> 01:40:27,793
Hey.
1725
01:40:31,032 --> 01:40:33,223
- It's good to see you, man.
- It's good to be here.
1726
01:40:36,079 --> 01:40:38,407
So.. The..
1727
01:40:39,695 --> 01:40:41,498
Lady in red behind me,
1728
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:44,563
she is, uh,
1729
01:40:45,508 --> 01:40:47,279
the address on this letter.
1730
01:40:55,735 --> 01:40:59,095
1731
01:41:12,086 --> 01:41:13,416
Bill gave me this.
1732
01:41:13,617 --> 01:41:15,102
He asked me to give it to you.
1733
01:41:19,766 --> 01:41:21,614
I'm sorry I took so long.
1734
01:41:28,467 --> 01:41:29,296
Thank you.
1735
01:41:33,109 --> 01:41:33,920
Thank you.
1736
01:41:43,417 --> 01:41:45,235
1737
01:41:45,352 --> 01:41:46,852
Amid the gloom
1738
01:41:47,181 --> 01:41:48,952
and waste of war,
1739
01:41:49,274 --> 01:41:51,852
we occasionally witness a brief but
1740
01:41:53,148 --> 01:41:55,789
brilliant flash of
personnel valor
1741
01:41:55,891 --> 01:41:57,563
so radiant it becomes
1742
01:41:57,727 --> 01:41:59,828
impossible to ignore.
1743
01:42:00,163 --> 01:42:01,975
Such is the heroism
1744
01:42:02,531 --> 01:42:04,478
of William Hart Pitsenbarger,
1745
01:42:04,734 --> 01:42:07,431
who was moved by
higher angels of duty,
1746
01:42:08,016 --> 01:42:10,112
courage and sacrifice
1747
01:42:10,359 --> 01:42:12,827
to make on behalf of
men he did not know
1748
01:42:13,094 --> 01:42:16,086
and a nation that until now
did not know his story.
1749
01:42:16,180 --> 01:42:19,157
The most supreme sacrifice.
1750
01:42:20,914 --> 01:42:23,172
Frank, Alice,
1751
01:42:23,844 --> 01:42:26,979
on behalf of the President of the
United States of America
1752
01:42:27,603 --> 01:42:29,055
in the name of Congress
1753
01:42:29,337 --> 01:42:31,177
for conspicuous gallantry,
1754
01:42:31,649 --> 01:42:34,359
extreme valor and intrepidity,
1755
01:42:34,977 --> 01:42:36,541
at the risk of his own life
1756
01:42:36,566 --> 01:42:39,079
above and beyond the call of duty,
1757
01:42:39,853 --> 01:42:41,556
I award the Medal of Honor
1758
01:42:41,837 --> 01:42:43,359
to airman first class
1759
01:42:43,814 --> 01:42:46,108
William Hart Pitsenbarger.
1760
01:42:52,171 --> 01:42:53,544
1761
01:43:18,946 --> 01:43:20,320
Alright.
1762
01:43:20,345 --> 01:43:23,160
Alright, now, this-- this isn't
on your program, but
1763
01:43:23,185 --> 01:43:26,379
if you could give me just
moment more of your time,
1764
01:43:28,976 --> 01:43:31,944
I'd like to recognize some guys
1765
01:43:32,891 --> 01:43:35,219
who are going to
hate me for doing it.
1766
01:43:36,641 --> 01:43:40,624
Now we have with us today some
of the veterans of Operation Abilene.
1767
01:43:42,063 --> 01:43:43,338
Charlie Company,
1768
01:43:43,570 --> 01:43:45,718
Second of the 16th Infantry.
1769
01:43:46,383 --> 01:43:50,070
Now these man were the witnesses
to Bill Pitsenbargers heroism
1770
01:43:50,141 --> 01:43:52,563
and they've worked and worked
1771
01:43:52,813 --> 01:43:55,390
for 32 years
1772
01:43:56,563 --> 01:43:58,093
to see this day come.
1773
01:44:02,484 --> 01:44:04,398
Would you honor us, please,
1774
01:44:04,883 --> 01:44:06,162
by standing
1775
01:44:06,609 --> 01:44:07,944
and being recognized?
1776
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:33,609
And with the Airman of Pits's unit,
1777
01:44:34,061 --> 01:44:36,601
The Airspace rescue
and recover service,
1778
01:44:37,007 --> 01:44:38,531
also please stand.
1779
01:44:40,273 --> 01:44:42,750
And any other PJ's from Vietnam,
1780
01:44:43,656 --> 01:44:44,945
would you rise?
1781
01:44:47,688 --> 01:44:51,824
If there are any other US veterans
here today, will you please stand?
1782
01:44:56,546 --> 01:44:59,936
If there are wife’s or parents
here, would you stand?
1783
01:45:03,608 --> 01:45:06,664
And any children or grand-children,
would you join us?
1784
01:45:08,625 --> 01:45:10,680
And other friends or family
1785
01:45:10,705 --> 01:45:12,461
anyone who has been touched
1786
01:45:12,734 --> 01:45:14,461
or moved in any way
1787
01:45:14,486 --> 01:45:17,453
by the actions of this
Medal of Honor recipient
1788
01:45:17,789 --> 01:45:20,281
would you also stand?
1789
01:45:28,640 --> 01:45:29,759
Look around.
1790
01:45:31,711 --> 01:45:33,789
This is the power
1791
01:45:34,148 --> 01:45:36,641
of what one person can do.
1792
01:46:39,265 --> 01:46:40,720
Thank you, son.
1793
01:46:49,703 --> 01:46:51,447
So you don't forget us.
1794
01:46:53,672 --> 01:46:54,864
Thank you.
1795
01:47:16,507 --> 01:47:18,136
- Daddy!
- Hah!
1796
01:47:18,740 --> 01:47:19,943
Hey, little man.
1797
01:47:20,078 --> 01:47:21,428
I'm glad we got to come.
1798
01:47:21,493 --> 01:47:22,967
Oh, me too.
1799
01:47:23,477 --> 01:47:25,069
Where is your mommy?
1800
01:47:27,914 --> 01:47:29,849
Looking good in
that uniform, Jimmy.
1801
01:47:32,180 --> 01:47:33,781
This is my son, Luke.
1802
01:47:35,414 --> 01:47:36,785
Nice to meet you, soldier.
1803
01:47:36,922 --> 01:47:38,277
1804
01:47:40,516 --> 01:47:41,955
I wanted to say
1805
01:47:44,015 --> 01:47:45,513
I wanted to say thank you.
1806
01:47:48,461 --> 01:47:49,943
You understand
what I'm saying, sir?
1807
01:47:51,430 --> 01:47:52,642
Your welcome, Jimmy.
1808
01:47:54,797 --> 01:47:57,148
But, you really don't
have to call me sir.
1809
01:47:58,274 --> 01:47:59,572
Sure, I do.
1810
01:48:00,602 --> 01:48:01,846
Why is that?
1811
01:48:03,883 --> 01:48:05,177
You earned it, sir.
1812
01:48:07,109 --> 01:48:08,852
Yeah, you take care now.
1813
01:48:09,359 --> 01:48:10,852
Because there is
a jungle out there.
1814
01:48:24,734 --> 01:48:25,916
What's your name?
1815
01:48:26,336 --> 01:48:27,212
Luke.
1816
01:48:27,398 --> 01:48:28,564
I'm Tommy.
1817
01:48:31,422 --> 01:48:32,576
Early on,
1818
01:48:32,789 --> 01:48:34,093
you said
1819
01:48:34,758 --> 01:48:36,938
there was nothing
in this for you.
1820
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Subtitled By NILNUWAN
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Of the millions of men and women who served in the American military,
3,498 received the medal of honor
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18 of them were from
the United States Air Force.
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Three of them were Airmen.
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One of them was William Hart Pitsenbarger.
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On April 11th 1966, when we
took off on that mission,
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Pits made a statement, he said:
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"Sir, I don't feel good
about this mission."
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They were prepared for us,
they knew we were coming.
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They were in ground holes,
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in trees
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in underground and
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as we walk they just simply
closed the back door.
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So they started calling us to help
them get out the wounded,
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and Pit said let me put me on the
ground, I can organize this much better.
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I said: sI don't want
to lose you, Pits.
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And it's hotter than hell down
there because the war, and
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fire fights going on all the
time, you could hear the stuff.
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So down he went.
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My initial thought when
I'd seen him repelling out--
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coming out of the helicopter was
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"What in the hell this guy is
thinking coming down here?"
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There is not a one of us that
wouldn't have left there if we could
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and the only guy that could leave
is Pitsenbarger, and he didn't.
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Marty Collin was on the
ground and he sent for me
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because
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he said "I want somebody
to know what Pits did
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so that he get to reported
it back in case I die."
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At that time Marty had
been shot five times.
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When we found
out the next morning
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that he had been killed,
we were just...
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it was a sad time
everybody.
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To me, this is one of the most
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important thing I did as
The secretary of the Air Force.
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Well' it should have been
humbled by itself
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It was just a fundamental wrong
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It was wrong to Bill Pitsenbarger,
it was wrong to his family
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wrong to the airmen
who supported him.
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And when we think about
it was extraordinary to
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have people worked for
it over 30 years
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to get this done.
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I mean, these people had their own
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lives, wives, children, grand children.
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And this was a passion for them,
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and I just thought
that was extraordinary.
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And I just, I felt
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and I ordered to Pits.
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Not just myself, there were other
people who feels the same way,
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specially our whole crew.
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We owe it to him.
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Bill's blood is mixed
with ours forever.
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I mean, he is our brother.
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