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Corpsman!

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For God sakes! Corpsman!

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Corpsman!

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Honey, what's wrong?

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Every jackass thinks he knows
what war is.

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Especially those
who've never been in one.

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We like things nice and simple,

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good and evil, heroes and villains.

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There's always plenty of both.

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Most of the time,
they are not who we think they are.

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Where is he?

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Where... Where is he? Where is he?

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Mr. Bradley?

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Mr. B? You okay?

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-Where is he?
-Where is who?

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Where is he? Where did he go?
Where... Where is he?

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All right. Just stay right here, okay?

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l'm gonna call an ambulance.
lt'll be okay.

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Where is he?

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Most guys l knew would never talk
about what happened over there.

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Probably 'cause they're
still trying to forget about it.

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They certainly didn't
think of themselves as heroes.

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They died without glory.

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Nobody has taken their pictures.

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Only their buddies knew what they did.

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l'd tell their folks
they died for their country.

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l'm not sure that was it.

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Now, there were plenty other photos
taken that day,

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but none anybody wanted to see.

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What we see and do in war,

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the cruelty, is unbelievable.

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But somehow
we gotta make some sense of it.

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To do that,
we need a easy to understand truth

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and damn few words.

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Film's ruined.

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l don't know. This one looks all right.

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And if you can get a picture...

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Now, the right picture
can win or lose a war.

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You're gonna want to see this.

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Look at Vietnam.

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The picture of that
South Vietnamese officer

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blowing that fella's brains
out of the side of his head, whammo!

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That was it.

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The war was lost.

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We just hung around
trying to pretend it wasn't.

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Took a lot of other pictures that day.
None of them made a difference.

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Thanks. Appreciate it.

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Sounds ridiculous, but it happened.

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Country was bankrupt.

50
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People were becoming
cynical and tired of war.

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Oh, my Lord, that's Harlon!

52
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Where?

53
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Right there.
Planting that flag, that's your brother.

54
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Ma, all you can see is his behind.

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And that's his. l powdered
and diapered it, l know my son.

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That's him. Go get your father.

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Daddy, Ma's got a picture
of Harlon's keister in the paper.

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You watch your mouth, young man.

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Thank you.

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One photo, almost all on its own,
turned that around.

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lt's on the front page
of every major paper.

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Over 200 dailies and they're
all flooded with requests for prints.

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l think we might have found it.

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Corpsman!

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-l gotta go get him.
-Oh, no, you don't.

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lggy, l gotta go.

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l have a whole different theory.

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He wants medical attention bad enough,
he'll come to us.

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Shut up and crawl over here,
you lazy son-of-a-bitch!

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As soon as that flare goes out.

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-Crap. Okay, well, l'll go with you.
-No.

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You're actually gonna leave me here?

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l'll be right back,
just shoot some people. l gotta go.

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Oh, God.

75
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Okay, it's okay.

76
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Don't touch them. Don't touch them.

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Get your hands out of there.
Let me do that. l'll do it, okay?

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Don't look. Keep your head back.
Keep your eyes on me.

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All right, look at me.
l'll get it. l'll take care of it.

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We'll get this bandage on you.
We'll get you taken care of.

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And we'll get you down to the bottom,
all right?

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Look, you're gonna be fine.

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lt's okay.

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l'll do that. l'll do that.

85
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Here, put some pressure on that.

86
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Put your hands on top
and put some pressure on it.

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Keep your head back. Keep breathing.

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Keep looking at me, all right?
Just keep looking at...

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Doc.

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Help me.

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All right. Okay.

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How's that feel?

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-lt feels good.
-lt does? All right.

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-Good.
-All right.

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l'm gonna go get a stretcher and get
you down to the beach. l'll be right back.

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l'm all right.

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Go and help someone who's hurt.

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All right. Hold on there.

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-Where'd he go?
-Who?

100
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The guy who was right here, lgnatowski.
Where did he go?

101
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-l think you jumped in the wrong hole.
-l didn't jump in the wrong hole!

102
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He was right here,
now where the hell is he?

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lggy!

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You shut up. You want every Jap
on the island shooting at us?

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lggy!

106
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Holy shit.

107
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They expect us to climb this?

108
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Or something just like it.

109
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So, where you think they're sending us?

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l think it's the desert, Franklin.

111
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Well, that makes no sense at all.

112
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Well, it's just military psychology.

113
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They always train you for the desert
on a volcano.

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Now you're just having fun with me.

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Harlon, take your men right.

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-Watch for Bedouins.
-Yes, sir.

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-What's a Bedouin?
-lt's a guy with a camel.

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Well, Jeez Louise,
maybe we are going to the desert.

119
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Now, you tilt that to the right, but
what if the bullet comes from the left?

120
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Bullets don't come from the left.
You know any left-handed Japs?

121
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That makes about as much sense
as you showering with your shoes on.

122
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You don't even know why you do it,
do you?

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'Cause l don't tell you
mean l don't know?

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You do it 'cause Mike does it.

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l'll ask him.

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So you cut hair back home?

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Some.

128
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Training to be a barber, are you, Doc?

129
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No, l just studied it a little.

130
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But not in barber school?

131
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Nope.

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-Gosh.
-Let me guess, Hayes is winning.

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Chief, l had very little to do
with Sitting Bull's death,

134
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so maybe you could stop
taking it out on me.

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Different tribe. The Pimas fought
on the side of the white man.

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-See, now that's smart.
-That is smart.

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Yeah. Worked real good for us.

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Good luck, fellas.

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Hey, good night, Lindberg.

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Dead bodies.
He cuts hair on dead bodies.

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What? Even l knew that.

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-Who's in?
-Oh, l'm in. l'm in.

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lt must be a lot easier with them
not moving around and all.

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-There's that.
-Yeah.

145
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You know what l been thinking?

146
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Well, they been telling us
we need to buddy up

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and l think we'd make
pretty good buddies.

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And how do you figure that?

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Well, you know,
in that we have a lot in common.

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So, why do you cut dead people's hair,
anyway?

151
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l'm studying to work in a funeral home.

152
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You tell a lot of people that?

153
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You actually chose the Marines
because they got the best uniform?

154
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No sense being a hero
if you don't look like one.

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Jacks.

156
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Queens.

157
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Shit.

158
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Do anything on that reservation
but play cards, Chief?

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All right, listen up,
you sorry bunch of leathernecks!

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We practice going
over the side tomorrow

161
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which means we ain't long
for this piece of rock.

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All right!

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One more thing, any man who doesn't
have his masturbation papers in order

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better get them signed by tomorrow
night or he ain't going overseas.

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-l got mine already.
-Oh, yeah. l'm square.

166
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Wait. Why am l just hearing about this?

167
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That's horseshit, Franklin. l don't have
to repeat everything twice for you.

168
00:13:52,331 --> 00:13:55,542
No, l didn't hear nothing
about no masturbating papers.

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Heard they were running short.

170
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You know, nobody tells me nothing.
That's real nice, guys.

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00:14:01,715 --> 00:14:03,842
All right, get your ass over
to the officer in charge of records.

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00:14:03,926 --> 00:14:05,760
Maybe he got some more left.

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00:14:06,929 --> 00:14:09,305
-Leave your smokes. l'll play for you.
-Thanks, Mike.

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00:14:09,390 --> 00:14:12,642
Listen, he calls you an idiot,
you take it like a man, okay?

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Just do not leave without signing them.

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00:14:14,770 --> 00:14:17,188
-l appreciate it, Sergeant.
-You got it.

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00:14:22,903 --> 00:14:25,947
What the hell happened to your hair,
Rene?

178
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Look like a goddamn corpse.

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Three points of contact on that rope
at all times.

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Next four. Over the side.

181
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Let's go. Keep moving.

182
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Next four, over the side.

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00:14:45,384 --> 00:14:47,302
Just keep your eye
on the guy below you.

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That's all you gotta look at.

185
00:14:48,762 --> 00:14:50,805
Watch me, Doc, just watch me.

186
00:14:50,890 --> 00:14:54,517
Keep three points of contact
on the rope at all times.

187
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You see? No big thing.

188
00:14:59,481 --> 00:15:02,859
Just one step at a time and keep
your hands on the vertical rope.

189
00:15:02,943 --> 00:15:05,361
Remember, once you're in the boat
move away from the rope.

190
00:15:05,446 --> 00:15:08,448
Just make sure you keep three points
of contact on the rope.

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l got him!

192
00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:11,409
All right, get that man out of the water.

193
00:15:11,493 --> 00:15:12,952
Give me a hand.

194
00:15:13,996 --> 00:15:15,163
Grab his pack.

195
00:15:15,247 --> 00:15:16,331
Don't worry about him, Doc.

196
00:15:16,415 --> 00:15:18,583
All right, quit skylarking! Keep it moving!

197
00:15:18,667 --> 00:15:20,001
He'll be fine.

198
00:15:21,128 --> 00:15:23,838
Our target, lsland X,

199
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is an ugly, smelly,
dirty little scab of rock called lwo Jima.

200
00:15:29,053 --> 00:15:32,221
lt means "Sulfur lsland,"
which accounts for the smell.

201
00:15:33,557 --> 00:15:36,517
Looks sort of like a burnt pork chop,
you ask me.

202
00:15:37,353 --> 00:15:39,187
After 20 straight days of bombing

203
00:15:39,271 --> 00:15:41,648
you won't find a blade of grass
or a twig on it.

204
00:15:41,690 --> 00:15:44,233
lt wasn't that pretty to start with.

205
00:15:44,318 --> 00:15:45,485
Captain?

206
00:15:45,527 --> 00:15:49,155
lwo's just five-and-a-half miles long,
two-and-a-half wide.

207
00:15:49,198 --> 00:15:52,367
There's a lump down at the bottom.
That's Mount Suribachi.

208
00:15:52,409 --> 00:15:54,535
On the maps in front of you
the island is white.

209
00:15:54,578 --> 00:15:56,162
Not much of it.

210
00:15:56,830 --> 00:15:59,707
The black dots represent
known enemy emplacements.

211
00:15:59,792 --> 00:16:02,168
Coastal defense guns,
dual-mount dual-purpose guns,

212
00:16:02,211 --> 00:16:03,711
covered artillery emplacements.

213
00:16:03,754 --> 00:16:05,964
Rifle pits, foxholes, antitank guns

214
00:16:06,048 --> 00:16:09,884
machine guns, blockhouses, pillboxes,
and earth-covered structures.

215
00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:12,804
l don't see any barracks
or any other structures.

216
00:16:12,888 --> 00:16:14,347
That's right.

217
00:16:14,390 --> 00:16:16,265
And we still don't know why.

218
00:16:16,350 --> 00:16:19,143
Now, this isn't just any island to them.

219
00:16:19,228 --> 00:16:23,564
This isn't Tarawa, Guam, Tinian,
or Saipan.

220
00:16:23,649 --> 00:16:26,776
This is Japanese soil, sacred ground.

221
00:16:27,277 --> 00:16:30,071
Twelve thousand Japanese defenders
in eight square miles.

222
00:16:30,114 --> 00:16:32,615
They will not leave politely, gentlemen.

223
00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:34,784
lt's up to us to convince them.

224
00:16:35,327 --> 00:16:38,121
The 28th will land here at Green Beach.

225
00:16:38,205 --> 00:16:41,249
The 8th Ammo Company
will land here to re-supply.

226
00:16:41,291 --> 00:16:43,251
The Suribachi's guns
are the biggest problem.

227
00:16:43,335 --> 00:16:45,044
They can hit any point on the island.

228
00:16:45,087 --> 00:16:47,463
We're sitting ducks
until we take them out.

229
00:16:47,548 --> 00:16:49,090
That's our job.

230
00:16:49,174 --> 00:16:53,177
We cut across the island, right at the
base, slit its throat, lop off its head.

231
00:16:53,262 --> 00:16:54,804
And we take that mountain.

232
00:16:54,888 --> 00:16:57,557
We take that mountain,
we take their big guns.

233
00:16:57,599 --> 00:16:59,350
We take their eyes.

234
00:17:12,614 --> 00:17:14,615
Okay, l'm heading in. Follow me.

235
00:17:15,617 --> 00:17:17,285
Let's put a good show on
for the Marines.

236
00:17:17,369 --> 00:17:19,537
Close it up.
Take it right down to the deck.

237
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,179
Yeah, boys!

238
00:17:40,309 --> 00:17:42,477
Man overboard portside!

239
00:17:51,487 --> 00:17:52,695
See him?

240
00:17:55,407 --> 00:17:56,657
Throw me a line!

241
00:17:56,700 --> 00:17:58,326
He's right there.

242
00:17:58,535 --> 00:18:00,661
-Where is he?
-Watch out, watch out, watch out.

243
00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:03,748
Hawaii's that way!

244
00:18:07,294 --> 00:18:10,755
Just keep paddling, Mac,
we'll catch you on the way back!

245
00:18:11,381 --> 00:18:13,883
Hold on, they're gonna lower a raft!

246
00:18:15,177 --> 00:18:16,677
They're not gonna stop.

247
00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:17,845
What?

248
00:18:18,347 --> 00:18:21,307
None of them are. They can't.

249
00:18:28,190 --> 00:18:30,608
So much for "No man left behind."

250
00:18:38,033 --> 00:18:39,617
-Sir.
-Come on in.

251
00:18:39,993 --> 00:18:42,036
Look, l've had to make
a few other changes.

252
00:18:42,079 --> 00:18:44,997
l'm promoting you to platoon sergeant.

253
00:18:46,667 --> 00:18:49,335
-Thank you, sir. l appreciate it.
-You bet.

254
00:18:49,837 --> 00:18:53,214
Trouble is, l already told my men
l'd see them through this.

255
00:18:53,298 --> 00:18:55,466
That your
James Cagney impersonation?

256
00:18:55,551 --> 00:18:57,385
'Cause l've heard better.

257
00:18:57,886 --> 00:19:00,096
Well, l'll keep practicing, then.

258
00:19:01,140 --> 00:19:02,932
Look, this isn't
your first time through this.

259
00:19:03,016 --> 00:19:05,935
-You don't need to prove anything.
-No, sir.

260
00:19:07,813 --> 00:19:09,188
You're not the best sergeant
l've ever had,

261
00:19:09,231 --> 00:19:11,232
you're just the best one
that's still walking.

262
00:19:11,316 --> 00:19:13,109
-Block's a good man.
-Yes, sir, he is.

263
00:19:13,193 --> 00:19:15,361
The men know him, he can step right in.

264
00:19:17,948 --> 00:19:20,449
You know,
l have actually thought this through.

265
00:19:20,534 --> 00:19:23,536
Platoon sergeant puts you further away
from the bullets.

266
00:19:23,579 --> 00:19:26,080
l already gave them my word, sir.

267
00:19:26,123 --> 00:19:28,040
l told them l'd bring them all home
to their mothers

268
00:19:28,083 --> 00:19:31,043
which means l already lied to half
of them. Can't lie to the rest.

269
00:19:34,756 --> 00:19:37,258
-How are your men?
-They'll do fine.

270
00:19:38,427 --> 00:19:40,261
Except maybe Gagnon.

271
00:19:40,596 --> 00:19:42,430
Our own Tyrone Power?

272
00:19:43,348 --> 00:19:48,227
Yes, sir. He's a good man, just might be
better use further back from the lines.

273
00:19:50,063 --> 00:19:52,064
l'll use him as a runner.

274
00:19:53,025 --> 00:19:54,775
All right. Thank you, sir.

275
00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:56,527
Now get out of here.

276
00:20:03,368 --> 00:20:06,287
Hear the good news, Doc?
We're going in with the first waves.

277
00:20:06,330 --> 00:20:09,415
Hey, you do that again
l'll take your head off!

278
00:20:09,458 --> 00:20:11,167
Fucking dominoes.

279
00:20:11,919 --> 00:20:15,755
lggy, have you ever heard news
you considered to be bad?

280
00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:18,466
The first ones off the ship, Doc.

281
00:20:18,508 --> 00:20:20,635
Means we don't go over
the side of the ship.

282
00:20:20,677 --> 00:20:23,471
We hop on a tractor,
they drive us right there.

283
00:20:23,513 --> 00:20:25,765
Oh, shit, that is good news.

284
00:20:25,807 --> 00:20:27,725
You see? What'd l tell you?

285
00:20:35,275 --> 00:20:36,859
What's going on?

286
00:21:02,636 --> 00:21:04,178
Look at that.

287
00:21:05,013 --> 00:21:06,180
We're killing them!

288
00:21:06,223 --> 00:21:08,057
We're killing them, Doc.

289
00:21:34,751 --> 00:21:37,378
l was promised 10 days of shelling.

290
00:21:37,462 --> 00:21:40,631
You're giving me three
and saying that's the best you can do?

291
00:21:40,716 --> 00:21:43,884
l don't give a shit! My men hit
that beach with less than 10

292
00:21:43,969 --> 00:21:46,721
and l'll be taking them home
to their mamas in buckets!

293
00:21:49,433 --> 00:21:51,058
Yeah, l know exactly why.

294
00:21:51,101 --> 00:21:53,894
Because every Navy man with
a scrambled egg on his chest

295
00:21:53,979 --> 00:21:56,981
wants to offload us here
and sail to Japan

296
00:21:57,065 --> 00:21:59,358
so they can be there for the big finish,

297
00:22:00,068 --> 00:22:03,529
tell their kids they captured
the Emperor all by themselves.

298
00:22:03,572 --> 00:22:07,616
Well, you aren't going to Japan
unless we take this piece of shit island!

299
00:22:08,118 --> 00:22:10,202
These little pricks are dug in!

300
00:22:13,415 --> 00:22:17,918
Okay, appreciate that, Jim.
Three days is a fucking beautiful thing.

301
00:22:24,092 --> 00:22:26,177
Sharpen your knife or bayonet?

302
00:22:26,762 --> 00:22:28,012
l'm okay.

303
00:22:29,348 --> 00:22:30,681
Sharpen your knife or bayonet?

304
00:22:30,766 --> 00:22:33,601
Jesus, lggy, just leave me alone,
all right?

305
00:22:34,102 --> 00:22:37,605
How about you guys? Knife? Bayonet?
Kick in the ass?

306
00:22:38,106 --> 00:22:41,025
How about you, Doc?
Sharpen your knife?

307
00:22:41,818 --> 00:22:43,819
You sharpened it three times already.

308
00:22:43,904 --> 00:22:46,697
Well, then l better make sure
l didn't nick it.

309
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,617
Good man, Doc.

310
00:22:54,081 --> 00:22:55,706
-Hey, Doc.
-Yeah.

311
00:22:57,751 --> 00:23:01,253
When we land, try not to wave
this kit around too much.

312
00:23:01,296 --> 00:23:03,422
They got sharpshooters
that are trained to look for them.

313
00:23:03,465 --> 00:23:05,508
And they know that
if they take out a corpsman

314
00:23:05,592 --> 00:23:08,052
another dozen Marines
will die unattended. All right?

315
00:23:08,136 --> 00:23:09,470
Okay, Mike.

316
00:23:16,144 --> 00:23:17,645
Yeah, right there.

317
00:23:48,677 --> 00:23:50,928
Close the damn door. For God's sake.

318
00:23:51,012 --> 00:23:53,139
Yeah, like that's gonna help.

319
00:23:59,438 --> 00:24:01,272
That your girlfriend, Chief?

320
00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:05,860
Bet she's a pretty
damn good-looking squaw.

321
00:24:05,944 --> 00:24:09,488
Bet you're missing her,
and that little wigwam of yours.

322
00:24:18,915 --> 00:24:21,876
Welcome, all Marines off Iwo Jima.

323
00:24:22,544 --> 00:24:24,503
We have a long-time wait...

324
00:24:24,546 --> 00:24:26,881
lt's what they do to prisoners,

325
00:24:30,051 --> 00:24:33,053
-at least the lucky ones.
-Jesus.

326
00:24:34,014 --> 00:24:38,893
lf l were you, cowpokes, l wouldn't think
about waving a white bandanna.

327
00:24:38,977 --> 00:24:43,522
Poor Marines, so far from home
for no good reason.

328
00:24:44,816 --> 00:24:48,319
Think of your girls back home,
waiting for you.

329
00:24:48,403 --> 00:24:51,405
But a girl cannot stay home every night.

330
00:24:51,448 --> 00:24:54,617
So who do you think
they're with tonight?

331
00:24:55,452 --> 00:25:00,372
And will she let him kiss her?
And will he comfort her at your funeral?

332
00:25:00,832 --> 00:25:05,211
This sweet music is to make you think
of your girls back home

333
00:25:05,253 --> 00:25:07,379
who are missing you.

334
00:25:07,422 --> 00:25:10,341
This is all for now.
l'll see you tomorrow night.

335
00:27:27,062 --> 00:27:28,228
Gunners!

336
00:27:35,111 --> 00:27:38,072
Move, let's go!
Let's go, get up on the berm!

337
00:27:45,205 --> 00:27:46,747
Gunners!

338
00:27:57,801 --> 00:27:59,551
We're clear!

339
00:28:02,597 --> 00:28:04,223
Get up the berm!

340
00:28:06,643 --> 00:28:08,727
Baker Company, move out!

341
00:28:08,770 --> 00:28:10,437
-Seen Second Platoon?
-l don't see them.

342
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,022
First Squad, move it out!

343
00:28:12,107 --> 00:28:13,774
God, this place reeks.

344
00:28:27,455 --> 00:28:29,790
-Go, go, go!
-Move out!

345
00:28:29,833 --> 00:28:34,795
Go, go, go, go! Go, go! Go! Go, go!
Drop your packs! Go!

346
00:28:35,964 --> 00:28:37,297
All clear!

347
00:28:41,136 --> 00:28:43,470
-Jesus, you needed some exercise?
-He got lost.

348
00:28:43,513 --> 00:28:46,306
A hundred landing craft heading
for one beach and this guy gets lost.

349
00:28:46,349 --> 00:28:48,392
Now l'm glad we did.
Jesus, what a mess.

350
00:28:49,102 --> 00:28:51,520
Any theories why they ain't shooting?

351
00:28:52,689 --> 00:28:54,773
lt's getting on my nerves.

352
00:28:54,816 --> 00:28:56,900
Maybe they're all dead.

353
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,404
What do you think, Doc?
You think they're all dead?

354
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,847
Mike, take six men
and bring that gun onto the beach.

355
00:29:26,931 --> 00:29:30,267
Second Platoon, let's move out!
Stay down. Come on.

356
00:29:30,769 --> 00:29:32,519
Move! Move!

357
00:30:10,141 --> 00:30:12,100
-Get down!
-Take cover!

358
00:30:13,394 --> 00:30:14,728
Move out!

359
00:30:38,586 --> 00:30:40,587
Cover fire! Pour it on!

360
00:30:43,424 --> 00:30:46,593
Ray, shift your fire to the right, now!

361
00:30:55,979 --> 00:30:57,187
Corpsman!

362
00:30:59,232 --> 00:31:02,484
l'm gonna sling your arm
and then l'll give you a shot for the pain!

363
00:31:03,444 --> 00:31:05,779
Move, move! Off the beach!

364
00:31:05,864 --> 00:31:07,531
Take cover!

365
00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:26,466
You got a girl back home, Marine?

366
00:31:26,509 --> 00:31:29,177
We're gonna make sure
she sees you, all right?

367
00:31:29,262 --> 00:31:31,763
l need pressure on this wound!

368
00:31:39,105 --> 00:31:40,981
Where's the fire coming from?

369
00:31:51,743 --> 00:31:53,493
Where are they?

370
00:31:54,329 --> 00:31:56,538
Look for a flash, shoot at it!

371
00:31:57,707 --> 00:31:59,041
Let's go, let...

372
00:32:16,851 --> 00:32:19,186
Twelve o'clock, take out the bunker!

373
00:32:20,355 --> 00:32:21,688
You're over!

374
00:32:32,033 --> 00:32:34,326
Third Squad, forward! Move!

375
00:32:45,797 --> 00:32:47,673
Where are they, sir?

376
00:32:47,715 --> 00:32:50,884
We got ten o'clock!
Ten o'clock, pillbox! Sergeant!

377
00:32:52,428 --> 00:32:55,055
-Sergeant! l think l can clear that out.
-What?

378
00:32:55,139 --> 00:32:56,765
All right, you go. Here.

379
00:32:56,849 --> 00:32:59,559
Take these. Check your weapon.

380
00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:01,561
Yeah? Go! Cover!

381
00:33:01,604 --> 00:33:03,021
Cover him!

382
00:33:09,070 --> 00:33:10,529
Cover, cover!

383
00:33:16,077 --> 00:33:17,577
Son-of-a-bitch.

384
00:33:22,709 --> 00:33:24,292
Let's go! Go!

385
00:33:24,377 --> 00:33:25,752
Move it out!

386
00:33:28,965 --> 00:33:30,590
Go, go, go!

387
00:33:33,594 --> 00:33:35,262
Down, down, down!

388
00:33:54,073 --> 00:33:55,365
lt's clear.

389
00:33:55,450 --> 00:33:56,825
Good work.

390
00:34:05,293 --> 00:34:06,877
l thought you said it was clear!

391
00:34:06,961 --> 00:34:08,295
lt was!

392
00:34:14,135 --> 00:34:17,345
Shit, l guess they're not in there
firing at us then.

393
00:34:18,681 --> 00:34:20,140
Lindberg!

394
00:34:20,224 --> 00:34:21,349
Yeah!

395
00:34:21,434 --> 00:34:22,934
Light it up!

396
00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:27,314
l'll cover you, lce!

397
00:34:27,398 --> 00:34:31,318
Don't cover shit! There's already
enough people shooting!

398
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,488
One bullet and this thing goes up
like a Roman candle!

399
00:34:34,530 --> 00:34:36,615
Go! Shift fire!

400
00:34:36,657 --> 00:34:37,949
Shift your fire!

401
00:34:37,992 --> 00:34:40,368
Go, go! Shift your fire!

402
00:34:40,661 --> 00:34:42,913
Shift your fire!

403
00:34:48,461 --> 00:34:50,337
Go! Move it out!

404
00:35:17,532 --> 00:35:20,200
Hit the deck!
Stay down! Wait for support!

405
00:35:21,494 --> 00:35:23,745
ls this a bad battle or what?

406
00:35:23,830 --> 00:35:25,872
lt's a fucking slaughter.

407
00:35:36,843 --> 00:35:38,552
Christ Jesus!

408
00:35:45,393 --> 00:35:48,353
Get a machine gun team
set up over here, now!

409
00:35:53,234 --> 00:35:55,152
Thank God! Tanks!

410
00:35:55,236 --> 00:35:58,155
Runner! Get those tanks up here!

411
00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:01,241
Oh, shit.

412
00:36:01,868 --> 00:36:03,160
Get down!

413
00:36:03,744 --> 00:36:06,037
Corporal, watch your left flank!

414
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,374
Let's go without them!
Move out! Move out!

415
00:36:36,485 --> 00:36:38,904
lggy, you gotta lift your side,
he's gonna roll off.

416
00:36:38,946 --> 00:36:40,405
Got it, Doc!

417
00:36:43,618 --> 00:36:44,910
lncoming!

418
00:36:50,708 --> 00:36:52,792
Move, move, move, move!

419
00:37:20,738 --> 00:37:22,239
Keep moving!

420
00:37:22,323 --> 00:37:24,991
Get that LVT up on the beach!

421
00:37:26,327 --> 00:37:27,661
Keep moving!

422
00:37:33,834 --> 00:37:35,961
You're next, pal,
we're getting you out of here.

423
00:37:40,508 --> 00:37:41,800
Move it!

424
00:37:56,691 --> 00:37:58,024
Great news.

425
00:37:59,485 --> 00:38:03,363
Maybe if you live up on Camp Tarawa,
'cause that's where we're headed.

426
00:38:04,991 --> 00:38:06,283
Not you and me.

427
00:38:06,367 --> 00:38:08,868
Captain Severance asked me
who else was in that picture,

428
00:38:08,953 --> 00:38:10,704
and Christ if l could remember,

429
00:38:10,788 --> 00:38:13,873
but it was Mike and Doc and Franklin
and me and Hank Hansen

430
00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:16,710
but l just remembered,
you were there, too.

431
00:38:21,757 --> 00:38:23,258
l wasn't there.

432
00:38:23,342 --> 00:38:24,884
'Course you were.

433
00:38:24,927 --> 00:38:27,387
Neither was Hank.
He raised the first flag.

434
00:38:27,471 --> 00:38:29,264
lt was Harlon Block that raised that one.

435
00:38:29,348 --> 00:38:32,183
Shit. l told them it was Hank.

436
00:38:32,977 --> 00:38:35,729
You weren't there, Mr. Smart Ass,
how'd you know it was Harlon?

437
00:38:35,771 --> 00:38:38,481
-You tell them it was me?
-No. Like l said, l just remembered.

438
00:38:38,566 --> 00:38:40,567
Good, keep your mouth shut.

439
00:38:41,027 --> 00:38:43,278
They know there was somebody else,
you can see it in the picture.

440
00:38:43,362 --> 00:38:44,446
Then pick someone dead.

441
00:38:44,530 --> 00:38:46,323
They don't want somebody dead,
you dumb redskin,

442
00:38:46,407 --> 00:38:48,783
they want to ship us back to the States.

443
00:38:49,243 --> 00:38:51,036
What did l tell you?

444
00:38:53,497 --> 00:38:55,040
l wasn't there.

445
00:38:55,082 --> 00:38:56,583
-You hear?
-All right.

446
00:38:57,418 --> 00:38:59,044
Just settle down.

447
00:39:00,254 --> 00:39:03,423
-l'm not going anywhere.
-You're not going anywhere.

448
00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:41,169
Who the hell says?

449
00:39:45,257 --> 00:39:47,092
This is horseshit.

450
00:39:50,679 --> 00:39:52,305
You wounded, son?

451
00:39:52,681 --> 00:39:53,890
No, sir.

452
00:39:53,974 --> 00:39:57,644
Well, did you take out a nest of Japs
butt-naked with your bare hands?

453
00:39:57,686 --> 00:40:00,772
'Cause if l'm gonna give up my seat
to a hero

454
00:40:00,815 --> 00:40:02,690
he better have
a good goddamn story to tell.

455
00:40:02,775 --> 00:40:04,150
No, sir.

456
00:40:04,193 --> 00:40:07,821
Then enjoy it, 'cause they'll forget you
before Christmas.

457
00:40:33,639 --> 00:40:36,182
The sixth man, you got a name?

458
00:40:36,225 --> 00:40:38,309
Sorry, still don't remember.

459
00:40:38,352 --> 00:40:42,021
lt's a damn shame, 'cause l promised
the Major you'd know who it was.

460
00:40:42,064 --> 00:40:44,190
Fact, you not knowing
throws a doubt on you

461
00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:46,526
being one of the flag-raisers yourself.

462
00:40:46,610 --> 00:40:49,446
Since no one wants to be embarrassed,
the moment you land

463
00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:51,364
they'll turn you around,
ship you off to Okinawa

464
00:40:51,449 --> 00:40:54,159
in time to meet your buddies
on the beach.

465
00:40:54,201 --> 00:40:57,871
So, why don't you stop screwing
with me? Give me a damn name.

466
00:41:16,056 --> 00:41:18,558
Gangway! Gangway!
Let's go, let's go! Gangway!

467
00:41:18,642 --> 00:41:22,228
Where the hell is that son-of-a-bitch?
Hayes! Hayes?

468
00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:24,522
Hayes, get your red ass over here!

469
00:41:24,565 --> 00:41:26,441
Make me look like l don't know
what my own men are doing

470
00:41:26,525 --> 00:41:28,693
with a flag the size
of my mother's house?

471
00:41:28,736 --> 00:41:30,695
God damn it, lra,
you shouldn't have lied to me.

472
00:41:30,738 --> 00:41:33,072
You made me look like
a complete asshole.

473
00:41:33,115 --> 00:41:35,909
We're gonna miss you around here.
Good luck.

474
00:41:42,666 --> 00:41:45,001
Now your name's in the paper, too.

475
00:41:49,381 --> 00:41:52,509
Just heard your doctor say
we're postponing your operation.

476
00:41:52,593 --> 00:41:54,677
You're being shipped back
to the mainland.

477
00:41:54,762 --> 00:41:58,681
Everybody who saw that picture
thought planting the flag meant victory.

478
00:41:59,767 --> 00:42:02,477
That's all they wanted to know. Victory.

479
00:42:03,479 --> 00:42:07,774
Within a few weeks of that picture being
taken, half the men in it were dead.

480
00:42:07,816 --> 00:42:11,653
Mrs. Hansen! Mrs. Hansen!
Did you know Hank was a hero?

481
00:42:11,737 --> 00:42:13,863
-Are you proud of him, Mrs. Hansen?
-What was he like as a boy?

482
00:42:13,948 --> 00:42:15,031
Look this way, please, ma'am.

483
00:42:15,115 --> 00:42:16,324
What do you have to say
about your son?

484
00:42:18,869 --> 00:42:21,955
But somehow being a part of it
meant something.

485
00:42:22,748 --> 00:42:27,460
Looking at it, you could believe
their sacrifice was not a waste.

486
00:42:31,966 --> 00:42:34,884
Yeah, l might have thought
that was Harlon, too.

487
00:42:34,969 --> 00:42:36,135
lt is.

488
00:42:37,638 --> 00:42:41,057
Belle, their names are right here.
lt's not him.

489
00:42:42,142 --> 00:42:46,771
And he would be alive
and sitting right here if it wasn't for you.

490
00:42:47,481 --> 00:42:51,109
You think about that
when you look at his picture, Ed.

491
00:43:58,552 --> 00:44:00,887
And l need to rush home and change

492
00:44:00,971 --> 00:44:04,849
because there's the Governor's banquet
and then there's the parade.

493
00:44:04,892 --> 00:44:08,144
lmagine, the Governor is coming here
to meet us.

494
00:44:08,228 --> 00:44:10,063
Now, l'm wearing blue so, if...

495
00:44:10,105 --> 00:44:12,357
-Are you going to change?
-We interrupt this program to bring you

496
00:44:12,399 --> 00:44:13,941
a special news bulletin
from CBS World News.

497
00:44:14,026 --> 00:44:18,071
A press association has just announced
that President Roosevelt is dead.

498
00:44:18,113 --> 00:44:20,698
The President died
of a cerebral hemorrhage.

499
00:44:20,741 --> 00:44:25,119
All we know so far is that the President
died at Warm Springs in Georgia.

500
00:44:26,413 --> 00:44:28,748
Further updates every hour.

501
00:44:28,916 --> 00:44:31,084
Temperatures will remain
the same today,

502
00:44:31,168 --> 00:44:34,045
in the mid-30s to low 40s
with clear skies.

503
00:44:34,088 --> 00:44:35,421
Hello?

504
00:44:36,131 --> 00:44:38,257
Yes. Of course.

505
00:44:39,009 --> 00:44:42,136
No, we understand. lt wouldn't be right.

506
00:44:44,181 --> 00:44:45,515
Thank you.

507
00:44:49,353 --> 00:44:52,522
Here he is, gentlemen.
Senator Boyd, Senator Robson.

508
00:44:52,606 --> 00:44:56,275
Senator Haddigan. l'd like you to meet
Private First Class lra Hayes.

509
00:44:56,402 --> 00:44:58,277
Damn good to meet you.

510
00:44:58,362 --> 00:45:00,738
Proud to make your acquaintance, son.

511
00:45:05,536 --> 00:45:06,703
Sorry?

512
00:45:08,622 --> 00:45:11,332
That's Pima lndian talk, boy,
don't you know your own language?

513
00:45:11,417 --> 00:45:14,043
Took forever to memorize
the damn gibberish.

514
00:45:14,128 --> 00:45:17,630
Sorry, l've been away from
the reservation too long, Senator.

515
00:45:23,554 --> 00:45:24,887
-Doc.
-lra.

516
00:45:24,972 --> 00:45:27,932
And now, the heroes of Iwo Jima!

517
00:45:27,975 --> 00:45:31,269
-That's you.
-Go, go, go, go. Go.

518
00:45:31,311 --> 00:45:33,020
Please welcome

519
00:45:33,731 --> 00:45:37,358
Navy Corpsman John "Doc" Bradley,

520
00:45:38,610 --> 00:45:42,071
Private First Class lra Hayes,

521
00:45:43,449 --> 00:45:47,410
Private First Class Rene Gagnon!

522
00:46:17,024 --> 00:46:19,859
Holy shit.

523
00:46:20,444 --> 00:46:23,404
Come in, come in, come in.
Bud Gurber, Treasury Department.

524
00:46:23,489 --> 00:46:25,114
-Rene Gagnon.
-Bud Gurber.

525
00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:27,867
-You showing the boys the sights?
-We saw a hell of a ball game.

526
00:46:27,910 --> 00:46:30,203
That's great.
The bar's there, help yourself.

527
00:46:30,287 --> 00:46:32,246
l got some briefing sheets for you here,

528
00:46:32,331 --> 00:46:34,165
just some simple things
we want you to say.

529
00:46:34,208 --> 00:46:37,710
Mostly, "Buy bonds,"
can't say that too often.

530
00:46:37,795 --> 00:46:39,962
ltineraries, those are changing
every couple minutes.

531
00:46:40,047 --> 00:46:42,548
Everybody wants to meet you guys.

532
00:46:42,591 --> 00:46:45,968
l got women sending up envelopes
with stockings in them,

533
00:46:46,053 --> 00:46:49,263
notes written in lipstick. We won't
mention that to the press, am l right?

534
00:46:49,348 --> 00:46:51,808
Have a drink, for Christ's sake.

535
00:46:51,892 --> 00:46:54,227
My God, what you boys
must have seen over there.

536
00:46:54,311 --> 00:46:56,020
l've been watching the newsreels.

537
00:46:56,063 --> 00:46:58,731
Jesus Christ, that was a fight and a half.

538
00:46:59,733 --> 00:47:03,694
So, we got a hell of a lot of money
to raise, not a lot of time.

539
00:47:03,737 --> 00:47:05,822
White House tomorrow,
then we trot you over

540
00:47:05,906 --> 00:47:07,448
to shake hands with
a couple of hundred Congressmen

541
00:47:07,533 --> 00:47:09,075
who won't pull a penny
out of their pockets.

542
00:47:09,117 --> 00:47:10,409
Politicians and actors.

543
00:47:10,452 --> 00:47:11,577
You put them in a restaurant together,

544
00:47:11,620 --> 00:47:13,538
they'd die of old age
before picking up the check.

545
00:47:13,580 --> 00:47:16,541
Then New York City, Times Square,

546
00:47:16,583 --> 00:47:19,585
dinners with various hoi polloi,
then Chicago...

547
00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:21,587
Who are these "Gold Star Mothers"?

548
00:47:21,630 --> 00:47:24,882
That's what we're calling the mothers
of the dead flag-raisers.

549
00:47:24,925 --> 00:47:26,801
You present each mother with a flag,

550
00:47:26,885 --> 00:47:29,428
they say a few words,
people will shit money.

551
00:47:29,471 --> 00:47:31,013
lt'll be so moving.

552
00:47:31,098 --> 00:47:33,766
But this says Hank Hansen's mom.

553
00:47:33,851 --> 00:47:36,310
Lovely woman. She knows how close
you and her son were.

554
00:47:36,395 --> 00:47:37,770
He wrote home about you.

555
00:47:37,855 --> 00:47:40,439
She is very, very much
looking forward to meeting you.

556
00:47:40,482 --> 00:47:42,608
Hank wasn't in the picture.

557
00:47:43,652 --> 00:47:44,861
Sorry?

558
00:47:45,737 --> 00:47:47,864
Hank didn't raise that flag.

559
00:47:48,282 --> 00:47:50,533
He raised the other one, the real flag.

560
00:47:50,617 --> 00:47:54,120
The what? The real...
The real flag? There's a real flag?

561
00:47:54,204 --> 00:47:55,788
Yeah, ours was the replacement flag.

562
00:47:55,831 --> 00:47:58,207
We put it up when they took
the other one down.

563
00:47:58,292 --> 00:48:01,043
Am l the only one getting a headache
here? You know about this?

564
00:48:01,128 --> 00:48:03,129
lt was after it was already in the papers.

565
00:48:03,213 --> 00:48:04,630
The mothers had already
been told, Bud.

566
00:48:04,715 --> 00:48:07,842
That's it, that's beautiful.
Yeah, that's beautiful.

567
00:48:07,926 --> 00:48:09,093
Yeah, why tell me?

568
00:48:09,136 --> 00:48:11,804
l'm only the guy that has to explain it
to 150 million Americans.

569
00:48:11,889 --> 00:48:13,639
Who is in the goddamn picture?

570
00:48:13,682 --> 00:48:15,641
Are any of you guys
in the goddamn picture?

571
00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:17,643
Yeah, we're in the goddamn picture.

572
00:48:17,686 --> 00:48:20,813
Six guys raising a flag over lwo Jima.
Victory is ours.

573
00:48:20,856 --> 00:48:22,273
You're three of them, right?

574
00:48:22,316 --> 00:48:25,443
This was the fifth day, sir.
The battle went on for 35 more.

575
00:48:25,485 --> 00:48:28,738
Well, what'd you do, raise a goddamn
flag every time you stopped for lunch?

576
00:48:28,822 --> 00:48:30,406
Can l hit this guy?

577
00:48:30,490 --> 00:48:32,909
You know what, l don't give a shit,
you're in the picture,

578
00:48:32,993 --> 00:48:35,536
you raised the flag,
that's the story we're selling, boys.

579
00:48:35,621 --> 00:48:39,332
Are you deaf? Hank isn't in the picture.
Harlon is in the picture.

580
00:48:39,374 --> 00:48:41,083
Well, who the fuck is Harlon?

581
00:48:41,168 --> 00:48:45,379
Harlon Block. That's whose mother
should be here if anyone's should be.

582
00:48:45,839 --> 00:48:49,717
You know, l think this whole damn thing
is a farce, you ask me.

583
00:49:09,112 --> 00:49:11,697
You know what they're calling
this bond drive? The Mighty Seventh.

584
00:49:11,740 --> 00:49:12,782
They might've called it the

585
00:49:12,866 --> 00:49:14,617
"We're Flat Fucking Broke
And Can't Even Afford Bullets

586
00:49:14,701 --> 00:49:16,327
"So We're Begging For Your Pennies"
bond drive,

587
00:49:16,370 --> 00:49:19,205
but it didn't have quite the ring.
They could've called it that, though,

588
00:49:19,289 --> 00:49:21,290
because the last four bond drives
came up so short

589
00:49:21,375 --> 00:49:23,459
we just printed money instead.

590
00:49:23,543 --> 00:49:25,711
Ask any smart boy on Wall Street,
he'll tell you

591
00:49:25,754 --> 00:49:28,923
our dollar is next to worthless,
we borrowed so much.

592
00:49:29,007 --> 00:49:31,842
And nobody is lending any more.
Ships aren't being built.

593
00:49:31,885 --> 00:49:35,721
Tanks aren't being built. Machine guns,
bazookas, hand grenades, zip.

594
00:49:35,764 --> 00:49:38,891
You think this is a farce?
You want to go back to your buddies?

595
00:49:38,934 --> 00:49:41,394
Well, stuff some rocks in your pockets
before you get on the plane

596
00:49:41,478 --> 00:49:43,771
because that's all we got left
to throw at the Japanese.

597
00:49:43,855 --> 00:49:46,273
And don't be surprised if your plane
doesn't make it off the runway

598
00:49:46,358 --> 00:49:48,067
because the fuel dumps are empty.

599
00:49:48,151 --> 00:49:50,903
And our good friends, the Arabs,
are only taking bullion.

600
00:49:50,946 --> 00:49:53,280
lf we don't raise $14 billion,

601
00:49:53,365 --> 00:49:57,076
and that's million with a "B,"
this war is over by the end of the month.

602
00:49:57,119 --> 00:49:59,620
We make a deal with the Japanese,
we give whatever they want

603
00:49:59,705 --> 00:50:01,580
and we come home,
because you've seen them fight,

604
00:50:01,665 --> 00:50:04,041
and they sure as shit ain't giving up.

605
00:50:04,084 --> 00:50:05,793
$14 billion.

606
00:50:05,877 --> 00:50:09,088
The last three drives
didn't make that much all together.

607
00:50:11,591 --> 00:50:12,883
People on the street corners,

608
00:50:12,926 --> 00:50:16,178
they looked at this picture
and they took hope.

609
00:50:16,263 --> 00:50:18,347
Don't ask me why,
l think it's a crappy picture myself.

610
00:50:18,432 --> 00:50:20,891
You can't even see your faces.

611
00:50:20,934 --> 00:50:24,770
But it said we can win this war,
are winning this war,

612
00:50:24,855 --> 00:50:27,189
we just need you to dig a little deeper.

613
00:50:27,274 --> 00:50:28,941
They want to give us that money.

614
00:50:28,984 --> 00:50:30,985
No, they want to give it to you.

615
00:50:31,069 --> 00:50:33,863
But you, you don't want to ask for it.
You don't want to give them hope.

616
00:50:33,947 --> 00:50:37,283
You want to explain about
this person and that flag.

617
00:50:37,951 --> 00:50:39,994
Well, that's your choice.

618
00:50:40,746 --> 00:50:44,582
Because if we admit we made a
mistake, that's all anybody'll talk about

619
00:50:44,624 --> 00:50:46,542
and that will be that.

620
00:50:56,261 --> 00:50:57,428
Gentlemen.

621
00:50:59,222 --> 00:51:01,140
Mr. President, here they are.

622
00:51:01,224 --> 00:51:04,226
-Well, hello. Good to see you.
-Mr. President.

623
00:51:04,311 --> 00:51:05,811
Darn good to see you, boys.

624
00:51:05,854 --> 00:51:08,814
Heard you had a hell of a fight
on your hands out there, hell of a fight.

625
00:51:08,857 --> 00:51:09,982
Yes, sir.

626
00:51:10,067 --> 00:51:13,611
lra, you're off the Gila River Reservation
in Arizona, am l right?

627
00:51:13,653 --> 00:51:15,488
Yes, Mr. President.

628
00:51:15,530 --> 00:51:19,116
Being an lndian,
you are a truer American than any of us.

629
00:51:19,659 --> 00:51:21,994
Bet your people are proud to see you
wear that uniform.

630
00:51:22,037 --> 00:51:23,454
Very proud, sir.

631
00:51:23,955 --> 00:51:25,081
They should be.

632
00:51:25,165 --> 00:51:28,834
Well, l want to thank you for coming all
this way to Washington to help us out.

633
00:51:28,919 --> 00:51:30,753
You fought for a mountain in the Pacific,

634
00:51:30,837 --> 00:51:33,798
now we need you to fight
for a mountain of cash.

635
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,509
-And l don't expect you'll let us down.
-No, sir.

636
00:51:36,593 --> 00:51:38,469
Good. Go get it.

637
00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:40,763
That's the end of this ceremony.

638
00:51:40,847 --> 00:51:45,267
Let's take a look at this famous photo
over here, see if l can pick you out.

639
00:51:45,352 --> 00:51:47,728
My gosh. There you are.

640
00:51:56,696 --> 00:52:01,200
Boys. Boys, this one's on me.
To those who can't be with us.

641
00:52:01,910 --> 00:52:03,202
Yes, sir.

642
00:52:05,831 --> 00:52:09,667
Excuse me, Mr. Gagnon.
May we have your autograph?

643
00:52:11,294 --> 00:52:12,545
l suppose.

644
00:52:13,797 --> 00:52:15,548
And your name is?

645
00:52:16,091 --> 00:52:17,758
l don't know about you,
but l get the impression

646
00:52:17,843 --> 00:52:19,593
l'm drinking with the wrong heroes.

647
00:52:19,678 --> 00:52:23,681
You're such a hero.
l feel honored to be in your presence.

648
00:52:24,141 --> 00:52:25,724
That's just not true.

649
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,897
That's professional work.
Here, to professionals.

650
00:52:42,367 --> 00:52:45,077
Here they are. You're the guys
in the photograph, right?

651
00:52:45,162 --> 00:52:46,745
l heard you were on the train.

652
00:52:46,830 --> 00:52:48,747
Let me shake your hands,
John Tennack.

653
00:52:48,790 --> 00:52:50,541
John Bradley.

654
00:52:50,584 --> 00:52:53,419
These boys are with me, Harvard
and Yale types, didn't fight a lick.

655
00:52:53,461 --> 00:52:55,212
Pappies all rich sons-of-bitches.

656
00:52:55,255 --> 00:52:57,715
Boys, shake hands
with some real war heroes.

657
00:52:57,757 --> 00:52:59,466
Excuse me for one moment.

658
00:52:59,968 --> 00:53:01,594
You can buy them a drink
while you're at it.

659
00:53:01,678 --> 00:53:04,597
That's right. Drinks for these men
all the way around.

660
00:53:04,681 --> 00:53:07,266
And you're the other one, aren't you?
John Tennack, Tennack Homes.

661
00:53:07,392 --> 00:53:09,435
-Rene Gagnon.
-Pleased to meet you.

662
00:53:09,477 --> 00:53:12,188
Have a drink, come on.
And here's my card.

663
00:53:12,272 --> 00:53:14,106
Listen to me, Rene,

664
00:53:14,191 --> 00:53:16,942
when you get finished
being famous you come see me

665
00:53:16,985 --> 00:53:19,820
because if you can sell bonds,
you can sell homes.

666
00:53:19,905 --> 00:53:23,157
Now, they're not gonna build homes
anymore, they're gonna deliver them.

667
00:53:23,241 --> 00:53:25,034
-You heard of prefab homes?
-No, sir.

668
00:53:25,118 --> 00:53:29,121
Well, you will. And you hang on to that
card and you come see me, you hear?

669
00:53:29,164 --> 00:53:30,956
-All right?
-Certainly will.

670
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:40,174
All right.

671
00:53:48,391 --> 00:53:50,601
This sure takes it, huh, Doc?

672
00:53:52,145 --> 00:53:54,980
lf Mike and the guys could see us.

673
00:53:56,191 --> 00:53:58,776
Yeah, they'd hardly believe it,
would they?

674
00:54:01,238 --> 00:54:02,655
Harlon!

675
00:54:05,825 --> 00:54:07,243
Franklin!

676
00:54:10,872 --> 00:54:13,290
Can you imagine Franklin

677
00:54:14,584 --> 00:54:16,377
on this train

678
00:54:17,545 --> 00:54:22,549
eating at the dining car
with all the silver?

679
00:54:26,972 --> 00:54:29,098
We shouldn't be here, Doc.

680
00:55:04,634 --> 00:55:08,387
There's gonna be a Hallelujah Day

681
00:55:08,430 --> 00:55:12,266
When the boys
have all come home to stay

682
00:55:12,350 --> 00:55:16,228
And a million bands begin to play

683
00:55:16,313 --> 00:55:19,857
We'll be dancing the Vict'ry Polka

684
00:55:19,899 --> 00:55:23,861
And when we've lit the torch of liberty

685
00:55:23,903 --> 00:55:26,405
ln each blacked-out land across the sea

686
00:55:26,489 --> 00:55:29,908
lra! Hey, lra!
We heard the picture was posed!

687
00:55:29,951 --> 00:55:30,993
What?

688
00:55:31,077 --> 00:55:33,287
We heard you posed the picture!

689
00:55:33,371 --> 00:55:34,621
Hey, Doc!

690
00:55:42,797 --> 00:55:45,049
We're bigger than life, Doc!

691
00:55:45,091 --> 00:55:46,717
And we'll heave a mighty sigh

692
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:50,554
When each gal can kiss the boy
she kissed goodbye

693
00:55:50,597 --> 00:55:54,308
And they'll come marching down
Fifth Avenue

694
00:55:54,392 --> 00:55:58,604
The United Nations in review

695
00:55:58,646 --> 00:56:02,358
When this lovely dream
has all come true

696
00:56:02,442 --> 00:56:08,489
We'll be dancing the Vict'ry Polka

697
00:56:13,078 --> 00:56:14,161
Good job.

698
00:56:14,245 --> 00:56:15,412
Thank you.

699
00:56:24,381 --> 00:56:25,964
Thank you, girls!

700
00:56:26,007 --> 00:56:27,424
And now,

701
00:56:28,468 --> 00:56:31,929
here are the men
you've been waiting to meet,

702
00:56:31,971 --> 00:56:33,847
the men in white.

703
00:56:33,932 --> 00:56:37,976
Right behind me here,
the heroes of Iwo Jima,

704
00:56:38,019 --> 00:56:41,480
Private First Class Rene Gagnon,

705
00:56:41,523 --> 00:56:43,982
Private First Class lra Hayes,

706
00:56:44,025 --> 00:56:47,361
and Navy Corpsman
John "Doc" Bradley!

707
00:56:59,833 --> 00:57:01,208
Thank you.

708
00:57:05,422 --> 00:57:08,924
lt's good of you people to come out
tonight in support of the war effort.

709
00:57:09,008 --> 00:57:11,635
We really need you to buy bonds,
that's for sure.

710
00:57:11,678 --> 00:57:14,346
'Cause we can't win the war
without your help.

711
00:57:14,431 --> 00:57:18,058
As far as us being the heroes
of Iwo Jima,

712
00:57:19,102 --> 00:57:20,811
that's just not the case.

713
00:57:21,479 --> 00:57:23,397
We really didn't do much at all.

714
00:57:23,481 --> 00:57:25,065
Especially him.

715
00:57:25,817 --> 00:57:27,317
Especially me.

716
00:57:28,194 --> 00:57:30,696
l was just a runner. That's it.

717
00:57:31,990 --> 00:57:33,740
We put up a flag.

718
00:57:33,825 --> 00:57:37,661
The pole we attached it to was heavy,
so it took a number of us.

719
00:57:37,704 --> 00:57:40,038
We had our picture taken doing it.

720
00:57:41,082 --> 00:57:44,835
The real heroes are dead on that island.

721
00:57:45,378 --> 00:57:48,922
And we'd appreciate it if you bought
bonds in honor of them. Thank you.

722
00:58:06,399 --> 00:58:08,400
Jump on any grenades, lra?

723
00:58:09,068 --> 00:58:12,196
Take out any machine gun nests
l missed?

724
00:58:12,238 --> 00:58:14,740
At least l fired my weapon.

725
00:58:14,782 --> 00:58:16,116
All right, knock it off.

726
00:58:16,201 --> 00:58:18,118
You hit anything
or were you too drunk then, too?

727
00:58:18,203 --> 00:58:19,286
What?

728
00:58:19,913 --> 00:58:22,039
Guys! Come on!

729
00:58:22,081 --> 00:58:24,416
Stop it. Knock it off.

730
00:58:44,270 --> 00:58:49,024
The tall man with the high hat
will be coming down your way

731
00:58:49,108 --> 00:58:52,277
Get your savings out
when you hear him shout

732
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,780
"Any bonds today?"

733
00:58:54,864 --> 00:58:57,783
Any bonds today?

734
00:58:57,867 --> 00:59:00,369
Bonds of freedom that's what l'm selling

735
00:59:00,453 --> 00:59:01,787
Any bonds today?

736
00:59:01,829 --> 00:59:05,207
Rene, right here.
Sit between these two boys.

737
00:59:05,833 --> 00:59:08,627
Here comes the freedom man

738
00:59:08,670 --> 00:59:13,757
Asking you to buy
a share of freedom today

739
00:59:16,302 --> 00:59:19,054
...for us and they need our help.

740
00:59:19,514 --> 00:59:23,517
And, if you think about it,
l think you'll realize

741
00:59:23,601 --> 00:59:28,522
that buying more bonds
is not just the right thing to do

742
00:59:28,815 --> 00:59:30,691
but the only thing to do.

743
00:59:32,318 --> 00:59:35,362
Yes, this war has gone on too long.

744
00:59:36,573 --> 00:59:40,492
We have given too many lives.
And its cost...

745
00:59:40,577 --> 00:59:42,911
-Chocolate or strawberry, sir?
-Strawberry.

746
00:59:42,996 --> 00:59:45,330
...has been far too high.

747
00:59:45,415 --> 00:59:47,332
But if we waver now,

748
00:59:47,375 --> 00:59:52,170
if we don't dig deep and give more
than we think we can

749
00:59:52,213 --> 00:59:55,299
then those sacrifices would be wasted...

750
00:59:55,341 --> 00:59:56,758
Chocolate or strawberry, sir?

751
00:59:56,843 --> 00:59:59,386
...and those lives lost in vain.

752
01:01:38,111 --> 01:01:41,154
Let's move! Go, go!

753
01:02:03,052 --> 01:02:05,887
Easy Six, this is Easy Two, over.
Where the hell are our tanks?

754
01:02:05,972 --> 01:02:08,515
Stuck in the sand.
Captain says you're to go without them.

755
01:02:08,599 --> 01:02:09,891
Christ.

756
01:02:10,476 --> 01:02:13,311
That's real good work
you're doing there, Rene.

757
01:02:14,981 --> 01:02:17,107
All right, prepare to move out.
Pass the word.

758
01:02:17,150 --> 01:02:19,943
Second Platoon! Move! Move! Move!

759
01:02:19,986 --> 01:02:23,363
All right, Second Platoon, on your feet!
Let's move out!

760
01:02:23,448 --> 01:02:24,781
Jackass.

761
01:02:24,824 --> 01:02:26,450
Let's move out!

762
01:02:28,202 --> 01:02:30,996
Go, go! Move, move, move!

763
01:02:33,875 --> 01:02:48,805
Corpsman!

764
01:02:50,683 --> 01:02:53,185
Second Platoon, move out!

765
01:02:58,024 --> 01:02:59,191
Doc!

766
01:03:00,443 --> 01:03:02,360
Doc, get out of there!

767
01:03:10,870 --> 01:03:12,454
Corpsman!

768
01:03:13,372 --> 01:03:14,664
Doc!

769
01:03:22,924 --> 01:03:24,800
Doc, get the hell out of there!

770
01:03:32,266 --> 01:03:34,017
May l have your attention, please.

771
01:03:34,060 --> 01:03:39,731
Train number 48 with service
from New York City, Boston,

772
01:03:39,816 --> 01:03:43,693
Rochester, New York,

773
01:03:43,736 --> 01:03:48,114
Toledo, Ohio, and South Bend, Indiana
is now arriving on Track 7.

774
01:03:48,199 --> 01:03:52,202
Train number 48 now arriving
on Track number 7.

775
01:03:52,245 --> 01:03:54,287
Okay, let's go. Let's go.

776
01:03:57,792 --> 01:03:59,835
-Come on, boys.
-Let's go.

777
01:04:00,294 --> 01:04:02,671
-Watch your step, ma'am.
-Thank you very much.

778
01:04:23,693 --> 01:04:27,487
Ladies and gentlemen,
may l present the heroes of lwo Jima.

779
01:04:30,032 --> 01:04:32,784
Navy Corpsman John "Doc" Bradley.

780
01:04:34,954 --> 01:04:37,831
Private First Class lra Hayes.

781
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,751
And Private First Class Rene Gagnon.

782
01:04:42,795 --> 01:04:45,046
Rene! That's my boyfriend!

783
01:04:46,799 --> 01:04:48,717
Who the hell is that?

784
01:04:48,801 --> 01:04:50,135
l don't know.

785
01:04:50,219 --> 01:04:52,220
-Rene, is that your girl?
-Hey, what do they call you?

786
01:04:52,305 --> 01:04:54,848
How about a photo? Hey, look at that!

787
01:04:57,435 --> 01:04:59,686
What's your name, doll?
What's your name?

788
01:04:59,770 --> 01:05:01,521
Hey, she's a beauty.

789
01:05:08,070 --> 01:05:09,988
Let's go find a saloon.

790
01:05:20,541 --> 01:05:23,293
Smile, boys.
Give them their money's worth.

791
01:05:24,545 --> 01:05:27,255
Hey, Doc, how's the tour going for you?

792
01:05:28,966 --> 01:05:30,050
Thank you.

793
01:05:30,134 --> 01:05:31,718
Where exactly are you staying?

794
01:05:31,802 --> 01:05:34,179
-l'm not sure yet.
-Just forget about that.

795
01:05:46,525 --> 01:05:48,693
Senator, l'd like you to meet
Corpsman John Bradley.

796
01:05:48,778 --> 01:05:50,528
-Doc, right?
-Yes, sir. Nice to meet you, Senator.

797
01:05:50,571 --> 01:05:52,030
Good to meet you, young man.

798
01:05:52,114 --> 01:05:54,950
Now, we appreciate everything you've
done and everything you're doing.

799
01:05:55,034 --> 01:05:56,785
-Thank you, sir.
-Quite all right.

800
01:05:56,869 --> 01:05:58,495
This is Captain White.

801
01:05:59,455 --> 01:06:01,706
-Colonel Johns.
-We're proud of you, Corpsman.

802
01:06:01,749 --> 01:06:03,333
And then Colonel McCourtney.

803
01:06:03,376 --> 01:06:05,794
-Major General Green.
-Nice to meet you.

804
01:06:08,881 --> 01:06:10,882
Senator, this is
Private First Class lra Hayes.

805
01:06:10,925 --> 01:06:12,300
Of course!

806
01:06:12,718 --> 01:06:16,388
Now l hear you used a tomahawk
on those Japs. ls that true, Chief?

807
01:06:16,472 --> 01:06:17,931
No, sir.

808
01:06:18,015 --> 01:06:21,059
Well, tell them you did,
makes a better story, huh?

809
01:06:22,645 --> 01:06:24,729
-Attaboy.
-This is Captain Green.

810
01:06:26,565 --> 01:06:27,774
John?

811
01:06:28,234 --> 01:06:32,237
Madeline Evelley. l recognize you from
all the photographs. l'm Hank's mom.

812
01:06:33,572 --> 01:06:37,242
lt's so nice to meet you, ma'am.
Hank was always talking about you.

813
01:06:37,284 --> 01:06:39,744
This is PFC Rene Gagnon.

814
01:06:39,829 --> 01:06:42,622
Pleasure to meet you, son.
Thanks for everything.

815
01:06:42,707 --> 01:06:44,541
-My pleasure.
-Not at all.

816
01:06:44,917 --> 01:06:48,920
lra, l'd like you to meet Mrs. Strank,
Mike's mom.

817
01:07:03,352 --> 01:07:04,894
lt's all right.

818
01:07:05,688 --> 01:07:08,231
When l got the telegram, l...

819
01:07:09,525 --> 01:07:12,152
l don't know what l'm trying to say here.

820
01:07:13,904 --> 01:07:18,450
Knowing he was with you that day
and seeing him in that photograph,

821
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:22,328
l don't know why it makes me
feel better, but it does.

822
01:07:22,913 --> 01:07:25,749
-lt's so silly, isn't it?
-No, it's not.

823
01:07:26,625 --> 01:07:29,169
How are you, son?
Thank you very much.

824
01:07:29,795 --> 01:07:33,423
We're the largest furniture wholesaler
in lllinois.

825
01:07:33,466 --> 01:07:35,300
Thank you. Excuse me.

826
01:07:35,926 --> 01:07:38,887
-l'll make sure he calls.
-Well, thank you. Thank you.

827
01:07:40,264 --> 01:07:41,681
Are you Rene?

828
01:07:42,433 --> 01:07:43,725
Yes, ma'am.

829
01:07:48,481 --> 01:07:50,273
l'm Franklin's mother.

830
01:07:54,111 --> 01:07:56,404
lt's an honor to meet you, ma'am.

831
01:07:58,324 --> 01:08:00,617
l'm Pauline, Rene's girlfriend.

832
01:08:02,912 --> 01:08:04,496
Would you mind?

833
01:08:12,421 --> 01:08:14,297
Paper said that's Hank,

834
01:08:15,257 --> 01:08:17,342
and l honestly can't tell.

835
01:08:18,010 --> 01:08:21,805
lt's horrible of a mother
not to know her own son, isn't it?

836
01:08:21,847 --> 01:08:23,681
But that's him, isn't it?

837
01:08:25,851 --> 01:08:28,269
Well, to be honest, ma'am,
it happened so quick,

838
01:08:28,354 --> 01:08:29,813
and with everything that was going on

839
01:08:29,855 --> 01:08:32,690
it's kind of hard to remember
who was where.

840
01:08:34,610 --> 01:08:35,819
But...

841
01:08:38,239 --> 01:08:40,573
Yeah, l think...
l think that's where he was.

842
01:08:40,658 --> 01:08:42,200
That's Hank.

843
01:08:42,243 --> 01:08:43,618
Thank you.

844
01:08:44,203 --> 01:08:45,578
Excuse me.

845
01:08:47,540 --> 01:08:49,666
l'm so sorry for your loss.

846
01:08:53,963 --> 01:08:55,296
Excuse us.

847
01:09:10,855 --> 01:09:12,522
Take him outside.

848
01:09:14,525 --> 01:09:15,775
l'm Pauline.

849
01:09:15,860 --> 01:09:18,862
-Very nice to meet you.
-Hi, nice to meet you.

850
01:09:20,447 --> 01:09:23,116
He was the best Marine l ever knew.

851
01:09:24,285 --> 01:09:25,660
Thank you.

852
01:09:35,379 --> 01:09:38,339
-You okay, Chief?
-Oh, Christ!

853
01:09:38,424 --> 01:09:39,924
l'm okay.

854
01:09:40,009 --> 01:09:43,720
Yeah, you look it.
You're gonna screw this up, aren't you?

855
01:09:43,762 --> 01:09:46,139
You're gonna screw it up for all of us.

856
01:09:47,224 --> 01:09:48,558
l've got him.

857
01:09:48,601 --> 01:09:50,476
Get some sleep, lra.

858
01:11:17,106 --> 01:11:18,523
-Mike?
-Yeah?

859
01:11:19,191 --> 01:11:20,525
-You see this?
-What?

860
01:11:20,609 --> 01:11:22,944
-Mike!
-Oh, shit, go!

861
01:11:29,285 --> 01:11:31,035
He's killing me!

862
01:12:10,951 --> 01:12:12,827
Hey, Doc, you think they got them all?

863
01:12:12,911 --> 01:12:14,078
What?

864
01:12:14,580 --> 01:12:17,582
Well, they're not shooting at us.
Maybe we killed them all.

865
01:12:17,624 --> 01:12:19,042
Or they ran off in the night
or something.

866
01:12:19,084 --> 01:12:21,044
Or they're waiting for us
to start climbing.

867
01:12:21,086 --> 01:12:23,880
Third Platoon!
Grab your gear, we're going up the hill.

868
01:12:23,922 --> 01:12:26,007
-Just us?
-Yeah, just us, lgg.

869
01:12:26,091 --> 01:12:28,634
All right, Third Platoon, move!

870
01:12:28,719 --> 01:12:30,386
l tag along?

871
01:12:30,429 --> 01:12:33,639
Yeah, you can lead the way if you want.
Get a good shot of my face.

872
01:12:33,724 --> 01:12:36,100
lt's your ass
l'm gonna make famous, Hank.

873
01:12:36,185 --> 01:12:38,436
Hey, that'll work for me, too.

874
01:12:40,773 --> 01:12:42,273
Lieutenant,

875
01:12:42,900 --> 01:12:45,777
if you make it to the top, put this up.

876
01:12:45,861 --> 01:12:47,111
Yes, sir.

877
01:12:53,619 --> 01:12:56,245
Don't worry, lggy.
They never shoot at the first patrol.

878
01:12:56,288 --> 01:12:57,914
-They don't?
-No.

879
01:12:58,415 --> 01:13:01,501
They want us to go up to the top,
signal to the others that it's okay,

880
01:13:01,585 --> 01:13:03,586
then shoot everybody else
as they come up the mountain.

881
01:13:03,629 --> 01:13:05,546
-Really?
-Yeah.

882
01:13:05,631 --> 01:13:07,632
Unless of course they want to
make an example of us

883
01:13:07,716 --> 01:13:09,300
and discourage all the others.

884
01:13:09,385 --> 01:13:11,928
l think you're full of crap,
you know that, Hank?

885
01:13:11,970 --> 01:13:13,221
Really?

886
01:13:14,014 --> 01:13:15,515
Jesus.

887
01:13:17,267 --> 01:13:19,102
Thank God that ain't us.

888
01:13:31,573 --> 01:13:32,824
Told you.

889
01:13:35,077 --> 01:13:37,620
Boots, spread them out
and put them on a line.

890
01:13:37,663 --> 01:13:40,456
Set up a perimeter! First Squad!

891
01:13:46,130 --> 01:13:48,005
-Hank? Find me a pole.
-Yeah.

892
01:13:51,844 --> 01:13:53,553
Let's put this flag up.

893
01:14:00,352 --> 01:14:01,644
Watch it.

894
01:14:02,438 --> 01:14:03,771
Right over here.

895
01:14:09,194 --> 01:14:11,654
Right here. That's good. That's good.
Right here, right here.

896
01:14:11,697 --> 01:14:13,906
Got that end? Hold that steady.

897
01:14:15,159 --> 01:14:16,492
Lindberg.

898
01:14:18,829 --> 01:14:20,955
-Hey, who's got rope?
-Right here.

899
01:14:25,043 --> 01:14:26,878
Give me something. Yeah, good.

900
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:28,171
That work?

901
01:14:33,010 --> 01:14:34,552
Do it, fellas.

902
01:14:36,472 --> 01:14:37,805
Keep it coming.

903
01:14:44,396 --> 01:14:47,648
USMC! USMC!

904
01:14:48,734 --> 01:14:49,901
Shit, look at that!

905
01:15:24,436 --> 01:15:26,103
Jeez, look at that.

906
01:15:33,946 --> 01:15:36,197
Get down! Take cover!

907
01:15:36,949 --> 01:15:38,199
Cover with that .30!

908
01:15:38,283 --> 01:15:41,369
-Watch it! Twenty yards down, Hank!
-You see them?

909
01:15:42,246 --> 01:15:45,957
-l got about 20 yards, left side.
-Lindberg, get the flamethrower!

910
01:15:47,167 --> 01:15:49,835
-Boots, you see them?
-Cover right!

911
01:15:50,379 --> 01:15:53,172
-About 20 yards down! Duck one!
-You see them?

912
01:15:53,257 --> 01:15:55,258
Keep the cover on!

913
01:15:55,300 --> 01:15:57,301
Second Squad, you see them?

914
01:15:57,719 --> 01:15:59,720
Get me some grenades!

915
01:15:59,805 --> 01:16:01,222
l see them!

916
01:16:12,526 --> 01:16:13,651
You see them?

917
01:16:13,694 --> 01:16:15,903
Right flank, over to the right!

918
01:16:19,324 --> 01:16:21,200
Cover me, l'm going down!

919
01:16:21,618 --> 01:16:22,827
Careful, lggy.

920
01:16:22,911 --> 01:16:23,911
Easy.

921
01:16:25,998 --> 01:16:26,998
All clear!

922
01:16:35,215 --> 01:16:38,676
Okay, guys, who wants to be famous?

923
01:16:41,013 --> 01:16:42,930
Yes, sir. Right away, sir.

924
01:16:43,015 --> 01:16:45,725
-God damn it. Strank!
-Sir?

925
01:16:45,809 --> 01:16:48,185
They want a phone line run up
to the top of the mountain.

926
01:16:48,270 --> 01:16:50,104
Let me guess, they picked us.

927
01:16:50,188 --> 01:16:53,065
Second Platoon, let's go.
Get some exercise.

928
01:16:58,780 --> 01:17:01,240
Let's go! Get off your ass.

929
01:17:05,370 --> 01:17:06,954
Oh, shit!

930
01:17:07,331 --> 01:17:10,625
Hope it still works,
'cause you're not getting mine!

931
01:17:11,209 --> 01:17:13,586
-Get Forrestal!
-All right, then.

932
01:17:17,424 --> 01:17:19,759
l don't know whose idea it was,
Mr. Secretary.

933
01:17:19,843 --> 01:17:24,055
Well, it was goddamn brilliant.
l want that flag, Holland.

934
01:17:24,097 --> 01:17:26,390
Mark my words,
raising that son-of-a-bitch

935
01:17:26,433 --> 01:17:29,602
means a Marine Corps
for the next 500 years.

936
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:32,438
l want that flag.

937
01:17:33,398 --> 01:17:36,233
Yes, sir.
l'll make sure no one touches it.

938
01:17:36,276 --> 01:17:38,110
You can count on me.

939
01:17:39,071 --> 01:17:42,740
Fuck that. That flag belongs
to the men in this battalion.

940
01:17:42,783 --> 01:17:45,409
That son-of-a-bitch thinks
that our men died taking this ground

941
01:17:45,494 --> 01:17:48,537
so we could hand over our flag
to some politician to pin to his wall?

942
01:17:48,580 --> 01:17:50,748
He's out of his goddamn mind!

943
01:17:51,833 --> 01:17:54,126
Get me that flag,
and find another one to replace it.

944
01:17:54,211 --> 01:17:56,420
You've gotta be shitting me.

945
01:17:56,505 --> 01:17:57,755
Gagnon!

946
01:17:59,132 --> 01:18:00,883
Get your ass over here.

947
01:18:06,682 --> 01:18:09,517
Hey. Hi, fellas. How's it going?

948
01:18:12,938 --> 01:18:15,231
Missed a beautiful shot, Joe.

949
01:18:16,149 --> 01:18:18,025
lt's that kind of day.

950
01:18:39,506 --> 01:18:41,966
-Hey, Mike.
-Hell of a view, Lieutenant.

951
01:18:42,968 --> 01:18:44,301
Lieutenant!

952
01:18:50,475 --> 01:18:52,643
Captain says he wants that flag.

953
01:18:53,812 --> 01:18:55,229
He wants this flag?

954
01:18:55,313 --> 01:18:56,480
Yes, sir.

955
01:18:57,816 --> 01:19:00,359
-We just put the damn thing up.
-Yes, sir.

956
01:19:00,986 --> 01:19:03,070
Some kind of flag shortage?

957
01:19:03,155 --> 01:19:05,531
He wants you to put this one up instead.

958
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:13,330
Hey, Mike.

959
01:19:15,167 --> 01:19:17,084
Do me a favor and put this up, will you?

960
01:19:17,169 --> 01:19:18,627
Yes, sir.

961
01:19:18,670 --> 01:19:20,588
All right, let's find a pole.

962
01:19:23,008 --> 01:19:24,967
Take the flag down, boys.

963
01:19:25,969 --> 01:19:27,511
Captain's orders.

964
01:19:29,306 --> 01:19:31,098
You heard him, let's do it.

965
01:19:33,727 --> 01:19:34,935
There you go.

966
01:19:35,020 --> 01:19:37,021
Lordy, she's a heavy one.

967
01:19:41,526 --> 01:19:44,236
All right, hang on. Put this on.

968
01:19:50,202 --> 01:19:51,368
One hell of a view, huh?

969
01:19:51,453 --> 01:19:54,455
Good view from up here.
Yes, l'd say so myself.

970
01:20:03,590 --> 01:20:04,715
All right.

971
01:20:08,553 --> 01:20:11,764
-Not in your way here, am l, Joe?
-Nah, l'm fine, thanks.

972
01:20:11,848 --> 01:20:14,225
Hey, Doc,
you wanna give us a hand here?

973
01:20:18,313 --> 01:20:20,940
Oh, Jesus, Bill, here she goes.

974
01:20:21,024 --> 01:20:22,441
Ready? Ready?

975
01:20:22,526 --> 01:20:23,776
Let's go.

976
01:20:26,738 --> 01:20:27,905
You get it?

977
01:20:31,618 --> 01:20:34,703
l don't know.
l wish l could've seen their faces.

978
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:39,583
Nobody even noticed
that second flag going up.

979
01:20:42,712 --> 01:20:46,799
Everybody saw that damn picture
and made up their own story about it.

980
01:20:47,342 --> 01:20:50,010
But your dad and the others
knew what they had done

981
01:20:50,095 --> 01:20:52,179
and what they had not done.

982
01:20:54,224 --> 01:20:56,141
All your friends dying,

983
01:20:56,810 --> 01:21:00,563
it's hard not to be called a hero
for saving somebody's life.

984
01:21:01,565 --> 01:21:03,983
But for putting up a pole?

985
01:21:08,738 --> 01:21:10,281
You gotta be kidding.

986
01:21:10,782 --> 01:21:14,702
Hey! lt took a lot of talented folks
a long time to make that thing.

987
01:21:15,412 --> 01:21:17,288
Just wait till tonight when it's lit properly

988
01:21:17,330 --> 01:21:19,331
and there's thousands
of cheering people in the stands.

989
01:21:19,416 --> 01:21:20,416
lt's gonna look a lot better.

990
01:21:20,458 --> 01:21:22,877
So, stadium lights come down,

991
01:21:22,961 --> 01:21:24,420
spotlight comes up
and you get your cue.

992
01:21:24,462 --> 01:21:26,964
You charge up this thing with the flag,
you plant it at the top.

993
01:21:27,048 --> 01:21:29,758
You smile, you wave. You know the drill.

994
01:21:29,801 --> 01:21:33,012
You want us to plant the flag
on a pile of papier-mâché.

995
01:21:33,096 --> 01:21:35,222
Hey, that's show biz.

996
01:21:36,057 --> 01:21:38,642
And try and stand how you stood
the first time you planted it.

997
01:21:38,727 --> 01:21:41,562
Just, you know, pretend
the other three guys are with you.

998
01:21:41,646 --> 01:21:42,855
The dead guys.

999
01:21:44,357 --> 01:21:46,191
Yeah. Yeah.

1000
01:21:48,236 --> 01:21:49,778
Okay, not a problem.

1001
01:21:50,322 --> 01:21:51,322
Good.

1002
01:21:52,032 --> 01:21:54,450
But where do we imagine
Hank is standing?

1003
01:21:54,868 --> 01:21:56,243
Sorry?

1004
01:21:56,328 --> 01:21:57,661
Well, seeing that he wasn't there,

1005
01:21:57,746 --> 01:22:00,789
it'll be kind of hard for us
to leave a space for him.

1006
01:22:01,124 --> 01:22:05,252
l think you know exactly where he was.
You pointed him out to his mother.

1007
01:22:08,173 --> 01:22:09,882
This is bullshit.

1008
01:22:11,426 --> 01:22:14,762
l planted that damn thing once,
and l'm not doing it again.

1009
01:22:17,349 --> 01:22:19,224
-Hayes!
-Oh, for Christ's sake.

1010
01:22:19,309 --> 01:22:23,437
Hayes. Hayes, get your ass back here
or you're going on report.

1011
01:22:23,521 --> 01:22:24,521
Hayes!

1012
01:22:26,024 --> 01:22:27,983
You wanna do your damn job?

1013
01:22:32,739 --> 01:22:36,116
Let go of me! Let go of me!

1014
01:22:36,201 --> 01:22:37,660
Come on!

1015
01:22:41,289 --> 01:22:42,957
He's with me!

1016
01:22:43,041 --> 01:22:44,875
Hey, he's with me!

1017
01:22:46,169 --> 01:22:48,754
-Back off!
-Sir, he's with me. Okay? He's with me.

1018
01:22:48,838 --> 01:22:51,173
lra, put the goddamn chair down!

1019
01:22:51,216 --> 01:22:53,634
-Put the chair down, son!
-Put the chair down, lra!

1020
01:22:53,718 --> 01:22:56,637
Tell them drop their sticks!

1021
01:22:56,721 --> 01:22:59,223
lra, they're cops,
they're supposed to have nightsticks.

1022
01:22:59,265 --> 01:23:01,475
You're not supposed to be in the street
swinging a chair.

1023
01:23:01,559 --> 01:23:04,061
-Calm down, son.
-Sir, turn around, please.

1024
01:23:04,145 --> 01:23:06,397
That poster right there?
The one on the end, that's him.

1025
01:23:06,481 --> 01:23:08,983
-That's him?
-Yes, sir. You read the papers?

1026
01:23:09,067 --> 01:23:10,234
Christ.

1027
01:23:11,152 --> 01:23:13,320
We got another fucking hero.
Get him out of here.

1028
01:23:13,405 --> 01:23:15,197
-Can you do that?
-Yes, sir.

1029
01:23:16,408 --> 01:23:20,577
Put the goddamn chair down.
And let's go.

1030
01:23:27,961 --> 01:23:29,712
Did you start this?

1031
01:23:30,171 --> 01:23:32,214
He didn't serve me!

1032
01:23:32,549 --> 01:23:35,259
l don't make the rules.
We don't serve lndians.

1033
01:23:40,890 --> 01:23:42,891
He needs to go sleep it off.

1034
01:23:53,528 --> 01:23:55,112
Soldier Field.

1035
01:24:00,118 --> 01:24:01,368
You hear that?

1036
01:24:01,870 --> 01:24:03,537
What the hell is that?

1037
01:24:03,621 --> 01:24:05,748
l can't figure it out.

1038
01:24:05,790 --> 01:24:07,458
Keep an eye out.

1039
01:24:07,542 --> 01:24:10,335
lt sounds like it's coming from up there.

1040
01:25:19,364 --> 01:25:21,198
They're using grenades.

1041
01:25:22,742 --> 01:25:24,535
They're killing themselves.

1042
01:25:32,794 --> 01:25:34,795
lra, let's go.

1043
01:25:35,547 --> 01:25:36,755
Come on.

1044
01:25:40,468 --> 01:25:42,970
Let's go, lra. Come on.

1045
01:26:04,409 --> 01:26:07,452
Thank God. Jesus. Look at you, Chief.

1046
01:26:10,582 --> 01:26:11,915
You found him.

1047
01:26:12,709 --> 01:26:15,752
Holy shit. You would have to pick today.

1048
01:26:15,837 --> 01:26:18,338
Vandegrift is here with enough brass
to start a fucking band.

1049
01:26:18,423 --> 01:26:21,008
Come on, let's go. Can you walk?

1050
01:26:21,092 --> 01:26:23,218
-Yes, sir.
-By yourself?

1051
01:26:23,261 --> 01:26:25,429
All right, look.
l don't care if you have to carry him

1052
01:26:25,471 --> 01:26:28,891
get him to the top, plant that flag,
and don't fucking fall off.

1053
01:26:28,933 --> 01:26:33,604
Get him in his stuff. l'll stall these guys
for as long as l can. Hurry up.

1054
01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:35,814
Jesus Christ.

1055
01:26:35,899 --> 01:26:40,152
And now, the heroes of Iwo Jima!

1056
01:26:44,782 --> 01:26:46,366
Cover!

1057
01:26:49,829 --> 01:26:51,163
Harlon!

1058
01:26:54,626 --> 01:26:57,544
Harlon! Get your fire team
up in that position!

1059
01:26:57,629 --> 01:26:59,004
O'Hare!

1060
01:26:59,464 --> 01:27:00,797
First Fire Team!

1061
01:27:02,508 --> 01:27:04,218
Work around!

1062
01:27:04,302 --> 01:27:06,553
BAR, you, on the side of the ridge!

1063
01:27:11,559 --> 01:27:13,518
Covering fire, boys, go, go, go!

1064
01:27:13,603 --> 01:27:16,313
Jackson, work your team
around to the left!

1065
01:27:16,397 --> 01:27:18,023
Cover!

1066
01:27:26,866 --> 01:27:28,659
Left flank! Left flank!

1067
01:27:33,665 --> 01:27:35,874
Franklin, Gust, go check it out!

1068
01:27:39,671 --> 01:27:41,255
Hustle up, boys!

1069
01:27:46,594 --> 01:27:48,011
We got them!

1070
01:27:48,721 --> 01:27:49,888
Clear!

1071
01:28:06,072 --> 01:28:08,115
One hell of an experience.

1072
01:28:15,290 --> 01:28:16,540
Move out!

1073
01:28:22,922 --> 01:28:26,508
Cease fire! They're my men!
You're targeting our men!

1074
01:28:30,722 --> 01:28:32,973
You're targeting our...

1075
01:28:34,100 --> 01:28:36,059
Get me another radio!

1076
01:28:40,565 --> 01:28:43,108
Sergeant? Sergeant!

1077
01:28:43,192 --> 01:28:44,401
Mike!

1078
01:28:44,444 --> 01:28:46,320
Mike, Mike, Mike.

1079
01:28:48,906 --> 01:28:51,116
Mike? Mike.

1080
01:28:58,875 --> 01:29:00,876
Hey, where's Doc?

1081
01:29:01,336 --> 01:29:03,003
Corpsman!

1082
01:29:05,256 --> 01:29:06,673
Oh, shit.

1083
01:29:09,427 --> 01:29:11,970
How's his breathing?
Harlon, move, buddy.

1084
01:29:12,638 --> 01:29:15,766
Hey, Mike. Mike, Mike, can you hear us?

1085
01:29:16,684 --> 01:29:20,437
lt's okay.

1086
01:29:21,939 --> 01:29:23,273
Come on, Mike.

1087
01:29:24,901 --> 01:29:27,277
Mike? Mike, can you hear us?

1088
01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:40,791
All right, let's go!

1089
01:29:41,542 --> 01:29:42,959
Move out!

1090
01:29:45,046 --> 01:29:46,588
l'm gonna get a stretcher.

1091
01:29:46,631 --> 01:29:49,174
Let's take him down,
move him off the beach.

1092
01:30:01,229 --> 01:30:05,399
Ladies and gentlemen,
the heroes of lwo Jima!

1093
01:30:07,151 --> 01:30:08,527
Corpsman!

1094
01:30:16,119 --> 01:30:19,496
Hank!

1095
01:30:38,349 --> 01:30:41,226
Doc, they killed me.

1096
01:30:49,777 --> 01:30:50,986
Harlon!

1097
01:30:53,406 --> 01:30:54,531
Doc,

1098
01:30:56,784 --> 01:30:58,326
they killed me.

1099
01:30:59,620 --> 01:31:02,247
Come on, Harlon. Harlon, stay with me.

1100
01:31:14,218 --> 01:31:15,510
Franklin!

1101
01:31:21,934 --> 01:31:23,560
l'm fine, lra.

1102
01:32:10,107 --> 01:32:11,775
Corpsman!

1103
01:32:14,695 --> 01:32:16,488
-Where'd he go?
-Who?

1104
01:32:16,572 --> 01:32:18,949
The guy who was right here, lgnatowski.
Where did he go?

1105
01:32:19,033 --> 01:32:21,743
-l think you jumped in the wrong hole.
-l didn't jump in the wrong hole!

1106
01:32:21,786 --> 01:32:24,371
He was right here,
now where the hell is he?

1107
01:32:25,248 --> 01:32:28,500
lggy!

1108
01:32:28,584 --> 01:32:31,586
You shut up. You want every Jap
on the island shooting at us?

1109
01:32:31,629 --> 01:32:32,712
lggy!

1110
01:32:47,311 --> 01:32:48,812
Does it open?

1111
01:32:50,314 --> 01:32:54,359
lggy!

1112
01:32:56,112 --> 01:32:58,113
lggy, are you down there?

1113
01:32:59,699 --> 01:33:01,324
lggy!

1114
01:33:02,326 --> 01:33:05,287
Can't tell who it is, but he's one of ours.

1115
01:33:06,038 --> 01:33:08,206
l had to go outside to throw up.

1116
01:33:09,834 --> 01:33:12,502
Look what they did
to the poor son-of-a-bitch.

1117
01:34:26,994 --> 01:34:28,370
You okay, Chief?

1118
01:34:28,913 --> 01:34:30,413
Just let it go.

1119
01:34:30,956 --> 01:34:33,958
lf that doesn't pry open their wallets,
nothing will.

1120
01:34:42,426 --> 01:34:44,427
Jesus Christ, he's drunk.

1121
01:34:49,058 --> 01:34:50,642
Goddamn lndians.

1122
01:35:01,821 --> 01:35:03,947
Come on, Chief. Let's get you home.

1123
01:35:13,916 --> 01:35:17,460
That's not what l hear.
l called around, l'm not stupid.

1124
01:35:17,503 --> 01:35:19,504
He's been drunk
since he started this damn tour,

1125
01:35:19,588 --> 01:35:21,297
making a spectacle of himself.

1126
01:35:21,382 --> 01:35:24,676
Just about choked that poor woman
at the reception, blubbering.

1127
01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:27,429
Jesus Christ, you're supposed to be
watching these men.

1128
01:35:27,471 --> 01:35:28,555
Yes, sir.

1129
01:35:28,639 --> 01:35:30,807
Well, he's making us
look like regular asses.

1130
01:35:30,891 --> 01:35:31,933
Well, with all due respect, sir,

1131
01:35:31,976 --> 01:35:34,018
he never wanted to come on this trip
in the first place.

1132
01:35:34,103 --> 01:35:36,479
We had to pull him,
kicking and screaming, off that boat.

1133
01:35:36,564 --> 01:35:38,565
He wants to be with his unit.

1134
01:35:38,649 --> 01:35:41,317
What unit? They're all fucking dead.

1135
01:35:41,986 --> 01:35:45,655
This is how he honors those men?
By drinking and throwing up, and...

1136
01:35:45,698 --> 01:35:48,366
You know what?
He wants it, great, we'll send him back.

1137
01:35:48,451 --> 01:35:52,412
Get him packed and on a train today.
He's an embarrassment to the uniform.

1138
01:35:53,789 --> 01:35:55,039
Yes, sir.

1139
01:36:02,173 --> 01:36:03,548
l'll do it.

1140
01:36:23,027 --> 01:36:26,488
Yeah, no, that's...
That's good. That's what l want.

1141
01:36:28,824 --> 01:36:30,533
l know it's a good thing,

1142
01:36:31,410 --> 01:36:34,662
raising the money and that,
'cause we need it.

1143
01:36:37,041 --> 01:36:38,124
But,

1144
01:36:38,918 --> 01:36:41,753
l can't take them calling me a hero.

1145
01:36:43,839 --> 01:36:46,674
All l did was try not to get shot.

1146
01:36:52,056 --> 01:36:55,016
Some of the things l saw done,

1147
01:36:55,059 --> 01:36:56,893
things l did,

1148
01:36:58,729 --> 01:37:02,065
they weren't things to be proud of,
you know?

1149
01:37:12,076 --> 01:37:13,117
Mike...

1150
01:37:17,581 --> 01:37:19,707
Mike was a hero.

1151
01:37:23,045 --> 01:37:24,712
You ever meet him?

1152
01:37:26,841 --> 01:37:27,882
No.

1153
01:37:34,056 --> 01:37:35,932
Best Marine l ever met.

1154
01:37:40,980 --> 01:37:44,941
You know, Chief, l think
if Mike was sitting here instead of you

1155
01:37:46,443 --> 01:37:48,945
he'd be saying the same thing
about himself,

1156
01:37:50,990 --> 01:37:52,782
not being a hero.

1157
01:37:59,957 --> 01:38:01,165
Maybe.

1158
01:38:03,002 --> 01:38:05,920
He was a good guy.

1159
01:38:06,922 --> 01:38:09,757
But l think that
he would be ashamed of me,

1160
01:38:11,510 --> 01:38:13,636
seeing me the way l am.

1161
01:38:32,823 --> 01:38:36,743
Think l could see my ma
before they ship me off?

1162
01:38:38,162 --> 01:38:40,663
Think they'd do that? See my ma?

1163
01:38:45,669 --> 01:38:47,211
l'm sorry, lra.

1164
01:38:59,183 --> 01:39:02,352
We got stories now to tell our kids,
l guess.

1165
01:39:02,436 --> 01:39:04,187
Keep your head down.

1166
01:39:13,864 --> 01:39:15,406
All aboard.

1167
01:39:15,491 --> 01:39:16,866
Good luck, Chief.

1168
01:39:49,191 --> 01:39:51,651
l think l saw him once after that.

1169
01:39:51,735 --> 01:39:54,737
lt was maybe six or seven years
after the war.

1170
01:39:54,780 --> 01:39:57,865
l was working as a salesman,
doing a lot of driving.

1171
01:39:57,908 --> 01:39:59,742
l was driving west across Texas.

1172
01:39:59,827 --> 01:40:02,745
l was just trying to get where
l was going so l could get home.

1173
01:40:02,788 --> 01:40:05,581
And l saw this guy
hitchhiking on the side of the road.

1174
01:40:05,624 --> 01:40:08,960
And, for a second,
l thought it might've been him.

1175
01:40:13,382 --> 01:40:16,968
l always regret that l didn't stop,
but l was in a hurry.

1176
01:40:18,095 --> 01:40:20,096
And he was an lndian.

1177
01:40:20,139 --> 01:40:22,724
We always told the press
that lra insisted

1178
01:40:22,766 --> 01:40:25,143
that he was going back to fight
with his unit

1179
01:40:25,227 --> 01:40:28,604
which was at least partially true, but

1180
01:40:30,858 --> 01:40:33,109
that isn't what got the headlines.

1181
01:40:33,777 --> 01:40:35,445
We're engaged.

1182
01:40:39,867 --> 01:40:41,576
Excuse me a minute, darling.

1183
01:40:41,618 --> 01:40:43,786
-Hey, Doc?
-Yeah?

1184
01:40:43,829 --> 01:40:45,955
-Got a minute?
-Yeah.

1185
01:40:45,998 --> 01:40:47,957
l'll see you at the car.

1186
01:40:49,376 --> 01:40:52,795
-You hear l'm getting married?
-l did, Rene. That's great.

1187
01:40:54,506 --> 01:40:58,384
Yeah, it's something she wants.
She waited for me all this time.

1188
01:40:59,470 --> 01:41:02,555
She's not used to all this,
but she's a good girl.

1189
01:41:02,639 --> 01:41:04,682
l'm sure you'll be very happy.

1190
01:41:05,225 --> 01:41:08,144
So, l was wondering
if you'd be my best man.

1191
01:41:08,228 --> 01:41:09,270
Me?

1192
01:41:11,231 --> 01:41:16,110
Don't you have somebody at home,
a buddy, you'd rather ask?

1193
01:41:16,528 --> 01:41:18,654
Well, l didn't really make many.

1194
01:41:18,697 --> 01:41:22,825
The ones who didn't go, it's...
Well, it's hard to even talk to them.

1195
01:41:22,910 --> 01:41:24,160
You know?

1196
01:41:24,203 --> 01:41:25,620
Yeah, l know.

1197
01:41:28,832 --> 01:41:30,625
l'd be proud to.

1198
01:41:31,502 --> 01:41:32,835
Thank you.

1199
01:41:34,088 --> 01:41:36,839
l better go drag her away from them
before she announces

1200
01:41:36,924 --> 01:41:40,343
l'm gonna be president
of General Motors or something.

1201
01:41:40,969 --> 01:41:42,178
All right.

1202
01:41:42,262 --> 01:41:45,515
-Congratulations.
-Thank you so much. Thank you.

1203
01:41:45,599 --> 01:41:47,183
Rene, you're a lucky man.

1204
01:41:57,402 --> 01:41:59,570
-Big smile, Mrs. Gagnon!
-Say cheese!

1205
01:42:00,906 --> 01:42:03,533
l couldn't complain
because the press loved them,

1206
01:42:03,575 --> 01:42:07,120
so they wrote more articles
and people bought more bonds.

1207
01:42:10,290 --> 01:42:13,751
The tour went on
with just Rene and your dad.

1208
01:42:18,298 --> 01:42:22,260
And the true heroes are the men
who didn't make it home from Iwo Jima,

1209
01:42:22,886 --> 01:42:26,222
the men who died at lwo Jima
and in other campaigns.

1210
01:42:27,099 --> 01:42:29,976
We ask that you honor
the memory of those men

1211
01:42:30,060 --> 01:42:32,562
by buying the war bonds
and helping us to win this war.

1212
01:42:33,897 --> 01:42:35,231
Thank you.

1213
01:42:39,153 --> 01:42:42,572
City after city,
l thought the damn thing'd never end.

1214
01:42:43,490 --> 01:42:47,702
And this rumor kept going around
that the photograph had been staged.

1215
01:42:49,913 --> 01:42:51,247
l remember your dad telling them

1216
01:42:51,290 --> 01:42:53,249
that he wished he'd known
he was having his picture taken

1217
01:42:53,292 --> 01:42:55,751
because he would've ducked
the hell out of it.

1218
01:42:55,836 --> 01:42:58,546
Whose idea was it?
Who wanted to stage the thing?

1219
01:42:58,589 --> 01:43:00,089
Come on, it was you?

1220
01:43:00,174 --> 01:43:03,301
Was there truth to the rumor
that that picture was staged, Doc?

1221
01:43:03,385 --> 01:43:05,845
-Come on! Doc?
-Can you answer that?

1222
01:43:07,973 --> 01:43:12,310
l remember when your dad got shot.
All hell was busting loose.

1223
01:43:12,394 --> 01:43:14,437
People back home saw that picture

1224
01:43:14,479 --> 01:43:18,232
and thought it was over
when we took Suribachi.

1225
01:43:19,985 --> 01:43:21,402
We wished.

1226
01:43:22,112 --> 01:43:24,739
Anyways, we're pinned down.

1227
01:43:24,781 --> 01:43:27,617
Mortars, shells, machine guns.

1228
01:43:28,660 --> 01:43:31,454
Fire coming from
every which direction, right?

1229
01:43:32,372 --> 01:43:36,083
And we hear somebody call,
"Corpsman down."

1230
01:43:37,544 --> 01:43:39,212
Corpsman down!

1231
01:43:45,969 --> 01:43:50,097
Blood was spurting out of his throat,
and Doc was doing everything he could.

1232
01:43:52,351 --> 01:43:54,477
And the Corpsman looks up at him

1233
01:43:55,938 --> 01:43:59,315
and he knows what this means,
to be shot in the neck.

1234
01:44:00,317 --> 01:44:02,944
He knows he's dying, you can see that.

1235
01:44:03,445 --> 01:44:04,737
But still

1236
01:44:06,198 --> 01:44:10,326
in his eyes, he's pleading with Doc
to save his life.

1237
01:44:16,667 --> 01:44:18,167
And Doc can't.

1238
01:44:56,081 --> 01:44:58,708
-You okay, Doc?
-Yeah, l'm fine.

1239
01:44:59,960 --> 01:45:03,129
-Yeah, you look fine.
-l'm okay.

1240
01:45:03,213 --> 01:45:06,549
Keep down, all right?
l'm gonna go get a stretcher.

1241
01:45:06,633 --> 01:45:07,717
Okay.

1242
01:45:15,058 --> 01:45:17,393
Corpsman. Corpsman!

1243
01:45:18,353 --> 01:45:20,563
For God sake, Corpsman!

1244
01:45:40,292 --> 01:45:41,584
Corpsman?

1245
01:45:44,004 --> 01:45:45,004
Corpsman.

1246
01:45:46,840 --> 01:45:48,632
lncoming!

1247
01:45:52,596 --> 01:45:53,929
Let me see.

1248
01:45:57,100 --> 01:46:00,144
lt's not that bad.
You're gonna be okay. All right?

1249
01:46:00,228 --> 01:46:02,271
Just stay with me. Look at me.

1250
01:46:03,065 --> 01:46:07,026
Took us a half-hour to find your dad.
He could've bled to death.

1251
01:46:07,110 --> 01:46:08,444
Coming down.

1252
01:46:15,410 --> 01:46:16,619
Thanks.

1253
01:46:21,041 --> 01:46:25,461
Vets'll tell you about being hit
but not wanting to leave their buddies.

1254
01:46:26,254 --> 01:46:27,880
Usually, they're lying.

1255
01:46:28,590 --> 01:46:31,425
You'll take any excuse
to get out of there.

1256
01:46:32,469 --> 01:46:34,011
But it happens.

1257
01:46:36,223 --> 01:46:39,141
You get the feeling
you're letting them down.

1258
01:46:40,477 --> 01:46:42,978
l could see that in your dad's face.

1259
01:46:44,481 --> 01:46:47,983
He wanted to go, he'd seen enough.

1260
01:46:49,653 --> 01:46:51,654
But he didn't want to leave us.

1261
01:46:53,824 --> 01:46:56,325
Now, he was a hell of a good man,
your dad.

1262
01:46:59,788 --> 01:47:00,871
Yeah.

1263
01:47:01,373 --> 01:47:05,418
While we were sitting there
on the beach, we heard this great roar.

1264
01:47:05,502 --> 01:47:06,961
And we looked up.

1265
01:47:12,592 --> 01:47:16,178
That was the first
of thousands of landings on lwo.

1266
01:47:16,263 --> 01:47:18,055
-Look at that.
-Yeah.

1267
01:47:18,682 --> 01:47:20,266
How about that.

1268
01:47:26,481 --> 01:47:28,023
l'm gonna head back, all right?

1269
01:47:28,066 --> 01:47:29,233
Good luck.

1270
01:47:32,362 --> 01:47:34,989
That island saved a lot of lives.

1271
01:47:38,618 --> 01:47:40,369
A lot of lives.

1272
01:47:44,583 --> 01:47:46,750
l don't know what else to tell you.

1273
01:47:55,635 --> 01:47:59,263
After the bond tour
my dad finally got his operation.

1274
01:48:10,734 --> 01:48:13,736
By the time he got home
the war was over.

1275
01:48:17,824 --> 01:48:20,659
First thing he did
was ask my mom to marry him.

1276
01:48:25,081 --> 01:48:27,833
lra tried to get on with his life
and put it all behind him.

1277
01:48:29,586 --> 01:48:31,962
Thank you for having me here today.

1278
01:48:33,006 --> 01:48:37,885
lt's an honor to be in front of
such a strong people.

1279
01:48:41,431 --> 01:48:43,098
Because of the war

1280
01:48:44,726 --> 01:48:48,103
white men will understand lndians
a lot better.

1281
01:48:51,608 --> 01:48:54,109
And it's going to be a better world.

1282
01:49:14,256 --> 01:49:16,632
But life had other plans for him.

1283
01:49:30,146 --> 01:49:32,856
You're... You're him, aren't you?

1284
01:49:32,941 --> 01:49:34,608
You're the hero, right?

1285
01:49:38,530 --> 01:49:41,699
Great. All right, kids,
go get your picture taken.

1286
01:49:44,244 --> 01:49:46,328
Oh, that's great. That's great.

1287
01:49:46,371 --> 01:49:47,997
All right, now say cheese.

1288
01:49:48,081 --> 01:49:49,331
Cheese!

1289
01:49:49,874 --> 01:49:53,794
That's great! Okay.
Hey, thanks a lot. Thanks.

1290
01:49:54,212 --> 01:49:56,463
-Come on.
-That's a hero, kids.

1291
01:50:07,809 --> 01:50:11,770
Hero, lift this basket, will you?
lt's too heavy for me.

1292
01:50:37,213 --> 01:50:40,633
Rene tried to take advantage of those
offers he'd received on the bond tour.

1293
01:50:40,717 --> 01:50:44,553
Yes. G-A-G-N-O-N.

1294
01:50:45,722 --> 01:50:49,099
Right. Pronounced Rene. Rene, yes.

1295
01:50:50,143 --> 01:50:54,480
-Okay, l actually called last week.
-Yes. Okay, yes. Mr. Gagnon.

1296
01:50:55,190 --> 01:50:59,109
l gave Mr. Tennack your message.
l'm sure he'll call you.

1297
01:50:59,736 --> 01:51:01,904
Okay. All right.

1298
01:51:03,031 --> 01:51:04,114
Thank you.

1299
01:51:04,699 --> 01:51:06,909
But he was yesterday's hero.

1300
01:51:06,951 --> 01:51:10,245
He even applied for a job
at the local police station.

1301
01:51:12,415 --> 01:51:14,750
They said he wasn't qualified.

1302
01:51:14,834 --> 01:51:17,795
After working the factory with Pauline
he tried a few things

1303
01:51:17,879 --> 01:51:20,547
but spent the rest of his life as a janitor.

1304
01:51:23,093 --> 01:51:24,134
But lra...

1305
01:51:24,219 --> 01:51:26,637
lra! You got a visitor.

1306
01:51:30,016 --> 01:51:31,975
lra always made the news.

1307
01:51:38,525 --> 01:51:42,695
l could never find out why he did it,
but one day lra just took off.

1308
01:52:25,864 --> 01:52:29,324
He walked and hitched over 1,300 miles

1309
01:52:29,409 --> 01:52:31,326
from Arizona to Texas.

1310
01:52:34,956 --> 01:52:38,250
He found Harlon Block's father
working his field.

1311
01:52:38,334 --> 01:52:42,588
His wife, Belle, had left him
soon after they discovered Harlon died.

1312
01:52:43,423 --> 01:52:46,967
She never forgave him
for letting her son go off to war.

1313
01:53:05,028 --> 01:53:07,070
And Ira told him the truth,

1314
01:53:08,323 --> 01:53:11,533
that it had been his son
who raised the flag with them,

1315
01:53:12,285 --> 01:53:14,328
his son in the photograph.

1316
01:53:17,081 --> 01:53:19,792
And then
he just turned and walked away.

1317
01:53:21,127 --> 01:53:24,004
Though the flag-raising
meant nothing to him,

1318
01:53:24,547 --> 01:53:27,716
he somehow knew
it would mean everything to them.

1319
01:53:43,900 --> 01:53:45,651
Thanks for calling.

1320
01:53:49,739 --> 01:53:51,949
Just as Belle knew all along.

1321
01:54:01,417 --> 01:54:03,252
The press soon found out

1322
01:54:03,294 --> 01:54:07,256
and called Hank's mom with the news
that it wasn't her son after all.

1323
01:54:20,520 --> 01:54:22,187
The last time they all saw each other

1324
01:54:22,272 --> 01:54:25,649
was at the unveiling
of the Marine Corps War Memorial.

1325
01:54:27,193 --> 01:54:30,737
And even though he planted
the first flag above lwo Jima,

1326
01:54:30,780 --> 01:54:33,198
Hank's mother and father
weren't invited.

1327
01:55:10,570 --> 01:55:11,653
lra.

1328
01:55:24,417 --> 01:55:26,168
lt's good to see you, lra.

1329
01:55:34,719 --> 01:55:36,553
Hell of a statue.

1330
01:55:49,734 --> 01:55:52,736
lt wasn't long after that
that they found lra.

1331
01:55:53,196 --> 01:55:57,324
The papers said he died of exposure.
There was no autopsy.

1332
01:56:12,090 --> 01:56:13,715
lt was about that same time

1333
01:56:13,800 --> 01:56:16,343
when my father got in his car
early one morning

1334
01:56:16,386 --> 01:56:18,845
telling my mom he had something to do.

1335
01:56:25,603 --> 01:56:30,023
He drove to a town on the other side
of Wisconsin where lggy's mom lived.

1336
01:56:40,076 --> 01:56:42,244
Ever since
she heard the news about her son

1337
01:56:42,328 --> 01:56:46,373
she'd been trying to find out
how he died, and no one would tell her.

1338
01:56:48,626 --> 01:56:51,169
I never found out what he told her,

1339
01:56:51,254 --> 01:56:54,464
but l can pretty much guarantee
it wasn't the truth.

1340
01:56:56,009 --> 01:56:58,427
My mother would ask him
what was troubling him.

1341
01:56:58,511 --> 01:57:00,095
He would never say.

1342
01:57:07,937 --> 01:57:10,939
And every year,
as it got close to Memorial Day,

1343
01:57:10,982 --> 01:57:14,818
the reporters would start calling
asking to interview my father.

1344
01:57:15,945 --> 01:57:18,613
No, l'm sorry. He's fishing in Canada.

1345
01:57:19,449 --> 01:57:21,867
We were always instructed
to say the same thing.

1346
01:57:21,951 --> 01:57:23,869
Okay. Thanks.

1347
01:57:27,206 --> 01:57:29,249
When Mr. McCandless retired,

1348
01:57:29,292 --> 01:57:32,961
my father bought the funeral home
where he'd worked since coming home.

1349
01:57:33,046 --> 01:57:37,090
He spent the rest of his life running
the business and raising his family.

1350
01:58:25,181 --> 01:58:28,433
He never spoke about the war
or about the flag-raising,

1351
01:58:29,143 --> 01:58:31,144
never told us anything.

1352
01:58:31,479 --> 01:58:35,315
The first time l heard any
of these stories was after he died.

1353
01:58:52,291 --> 01:58:55,252
Where is he? Oh, God.

1354
01:58:57,463 --> 01:58:58,964
He's not here, Dad.

1355
01:59:00,049 --> 01:59:01,133
He died.

1356
01:59:03,386 --> 01:59:05,095
Who? Who died?

1357
01:59:06,514 --> 01:59:10,767
lggy.

1358
01:59:12,228 --> 01:59:15,730
Christ, poor lggy.

1359
01:59:16,732 --> 01:59:19,234
l hadn't thought of him for years.

1360
01:59:21,195 --> 01:59:23,572
How do you know about lggy?

1361
01:59:24,073 --> 01:59:27,576
You were calling for him,
when you collapsed.

1362
01:59:32,665 --> 01:59:34,875
l wasn't looking for lggy.

1363
01:59:36,961 --> 01:59:38,837
l was looking for you.

1364
01:59:41,090 --> 01:59:42,591
l wanted to...

1365
01:59:45,428 --> 01:59:49,556
l wanted to tell you
l'm sorry l wasn't a better father.

1366
01:59:51,017 --> 01:59:52,767
Talked to you more.

1367
01:59:54,228 --> 01:59:55,478
l just...

1368
01:59:59,567 --> 02:00:00,901
l'm sorry.

1369
02:00:02,987 --> 02:00:04,154
Sorry?

1370
02:00:06,282 --> 02:00:09,117
You were the best father
a man could have.

1371
02:00:18,961 --> 02:00:22,839
Did l ever tell you
they took us swimming?

1372
02:00:27,303 --> 02:00:28,803
No, Dad.

1373
02:00:30,389 --> 02:00:34,976
After we planted the flag,
we came down off the mountain

1374
02:00:36,103 --> 02:00:37,896
and they let us swim.

1375
02:00:39,398 --> 02:00:41,942
lt was the funniest thing.

1376
02:00:42,818 --> 02:00:44,569
All this fighting

1377
02:00:45,529 --> 02:00:49,491
and we were jumping around
in the water like kids.

1378
02:00:52,703 --> 02:00:55,872
That's the way l remember lggy now.

1379
02:01:32,451 --> 02:01:36,204
l finally came to the conclusion
that maybe he was right.

1380
02:01:36,247 --> 02:01:39,499
Maybe there's no such thing as heroes.

1381
02:01:39,542 --> 02:01:42,168
Maybe there are just people
like my dad.

1382
02:01:43,379 --> 02:01:44,879
l finally came to understand

1383
02:01:44,922 --> 02:01:48,383
why they were so uncomfortable
being called heroes.

1384
02:01:49,135 --> 02:01:52,929
Heroes are something we create,
something we need.

1385
02:01:57,268 --> 02:02:01,563
lt's a way for us to understand
what is almost incomprehensible,

1386
02:02:01,647 --> 02:02:04,899
how people could sacrifice
so much for us.

1387
02:02:05,526 --> 02:02:07,777
But for my dad and these men,

1388
02:02:07,862 --> 02:02:11,072
the risks they took,
the wounds they suffered,

1389
02:02:11,157 --> 02:02:13,366
they did that for their buddies.

1390
02:02:13,868 --> 02:02:17,662
They may have fought for their country,
but they died for their friends.

1391
02:02:17,747 --> 02:02:20,498
For the man in front,
for the man beside them.

1392
02:02:21,792 --> 02:02:24,878
And if we wish to truly honor these men,

1393
02:02:24,920 --> 02:02:27,922
we should remember them
the way they really were,

1394
02:02:27,965 --> 02:02:30,300
the way my dad remembered them.

1395
02:03:10,299 --> 02:03:11,716
Come on, Doc!