Gardens of Stone

You know, er... Sergeant Major is a friend of your dad's 631 00:37:36,463 --> 00:37:38,250 from the Korean war days. 632 00:37:45,221 --> 00:37:46,507 Now, then, 633 00:37:46,598 --> 00:37:51,013 as to results of recent battalion inspection... 634 00:37:51,686 --> 00:37:55,305 You see, kid, as the good book says, 635 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,604 "Some days the bear eats you, some days you eat the bear." 636 00:37:58,693 --> 00:38:01,106 Which means that we won the inspection, 637 00:38:01,196 --> 00:38:02,732 Wildman and all. 638 00:38:02,947 --> 00:38:05,360 - Hey! - Damn good today, kid. 639 00:38:05,492 --> 00:38:08,075 Sharpest-looking trooper I've seen all week. 640 00:38:08,161 --> 00:38:11,780 That includes them prima-donna geeks over at Honor Guard Company. 641 00:38:11,915 --> 00:38:13,955 - Congratulations. - Thanks, Sergeant Major. 642 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,868 Well, er... the, er... Willow here, 643 00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:18,918 he, er... 644 00:38:19,005 --> 00:38:21,213 he wants to go to Vietnam. 645 00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:23,541 He feels that an infantryman's place 646 00:38:23,635 --> 00:38:25,092 in the time of war is at the front. 647 00:38:25,178 --> 00:38:27,465 There ain't no front in Vietnam. 648 00:38:27,639 --> 00:38:28,959 That's what Sergeant Hazard says. 649 00:38:29,015 --> 00:38:30,222 Yeah. 650 00:38:30,350 --> 00:38:32,888 It's a funny little war, kid. 651 00:38:32,977 --> 00:38:34,434 Things have changed. 652 00:38:34,521 --> 00:38:35,728 Like what? 653 00:38:37,732 --> 00:38:40,941 Well, to begin with, "the peace-loving people of Vietnam..." 654 00:38:41,027 --> 00:38:42,814 Aw, "the peace-loving..." 655 00:38:42,904 --> 00:38:45,066 If I hear that one more time, I'm gonna puke. 656 00:38:45,198 --> 00:38:47,941 That is the most bellicose race of people I've ever seen. 657 00:38:48,076 --> 00:38:50,012 They've been fightin' somebody for a thousand years, 658 00:38:50,036 --> 00:38:51,902 - and they like it. - Damn right. 659 00:38:52,455 --> 00:38:56,745 And I... I don't really give a rat's ass about Vietnam. 660 00:38:58,044 --> 00:39:01,537 Matter of fact, I... I don't give a wombat's shit 661 00:39:01,673 --> 00:39:04,757 about who's running Vietnam. As a matter of fact, to be very honest, 662 00:39:04,843 --> 00:39:07,256 I really don't care about who's running the US of A. 663 00:39:07,345 --> 00:39:09,177 Don't you care about anything? 664 00:39:09,264 --> 00:39:12,928 Oh, yeah. Yeah. I care about the United States Army. 665 00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:14,516 That's my family. 666 00:39:14,686 --> 00:39:16,018 The only one I got. 667 00:39:16,145 --> 00:39:18,933 And I don't like it when it's in trouble. 668 00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:19,763 Trouble? 669 00:39:19,858 --> 00:39:23,602 Sarge, we beat King George when we were the guerrillas, 670 00:39:23,695 --> 00:39:25,982 - and we beat Hitler. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 671 00:39:26,114 --> 00:39:28,606 And... and we beat everybody in between. 672 00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:30,817 Now, we're not gonna go out and lose the first one 673 00:39:30,910 --> 00:39:33,493 to a bunch of gutty little Asian farmers. 674 00:39:33,580 --> 00:39:34,616 Yeah? 675 00:39:34,706 --> 00:39:36,197 You take a look at that farmer. 676 00:39:36,291 --> 00:39:39,125 He can march a hundred miles on no food, 677 00:39:39,252 --> 00:39:41,209 through jungle you would not believe, 678 00:39:41,337 --> 00:39:44,000 slaughter his own people, babies if he has to, 679 00:39:44,090 --> 00:39:45,501 and that is a soldier. 680 00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:48,376 Firepower. He can't keep soaking up our firepower. 681 00:39:48,469 --> 00:39:50,176 I saw a photo, wire photo. 682 00:39:50,305 --> 00:39:52,592 One of our choppers coming back with arrows in it. 683 00:39:52,682 --> 00:39:53,422 Arrows. 684 00:39:53,516 --> 00:39:54,848 High-technology helicopter. 685 00:39:54,934 --> 00:39:57,051 How do you beat a helicopter with bows and arrows? 686 00:39:57,145 --> 00:39:58,386 How you gonna beat an enemy 687 00:39:58,521 --> 00:40:00,808 that fights helicopters with bows and arrows? 688 00:40:00,899 --> 00:40:02,686 Well, one thing's for sure. 689 00:40:02,817 --> 00:40:05,150 You sure as hell can't beat 'em from here, 690 00:40:05,278 --> 00:40:07,019 Fort Goddamn Benning. 691 00:40:07,155 --> 00:40:10,068 <i>Wait. Hey. What...? What do you want, man?</i> 692 00:40:10,158 --> 00:40:11,302 <i>What do you want?</i> 693 00:40:11,326 --> 00:40:13,238 <i>Don't like what I said?</i> 694 00:40:13,328 --> 00:40:14,034 Yeah. 695 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:14,951 <i>You want it.</i> 696 00:40:15,038 --> 00:40:17,826 <i>Too late for that, man. What's going on?</i> 697 00:40:17,916 --> 00:40:19,873 <i>Well, let's go at it.</i> 698 00:40:21,419 --> 0