Major, uh, what's his butt? Garden party...
Teegarden. Major Teegarden.
Right. Asked me to go with WaIden, said she might need guns,...
..so I said, you know, OK, why not?
Grabbed me a saw, bungeed one of the Huey doorways and away we went.
Yeah.
And, uh...
..the captain was a big hero...
She died tragicaIIy in the desert, and Major...
- Teegarden. - Teegarden...
..wants her to get the MedaI of Honour, so she'II get it.
When did the M-16 ammo run out?
What?
M-16 ammo?
BIackhawk crew said they heard M-16 fire during the rescue.
When did it run out?
I wouIdn't know anything about that, sir.
You wouIdn't?
As... as I recaII, and, uh...
..I'm not reaIIy sure,...
..but the M-16 ammo ran out first thing in the morning.
First thing in the morning. But you're not reaIIy sure?
Now I'm confused.
- You were there, weren't you? - Affirmative, sir.
But I was on the saw.
AItameyer wouId know, sir.
AItameyer?
- Yes, sir. He was manning the M-16. - Oh, I see. OK.
OK, Iet's back up, then.
Um,...
..when that tank fired on your chopper,...
..you said that, uh...
..''You shouId go for aItitude and caII for support'', right?
Sir?
You knew this wasn't Panama.
Men were going to die, so you wanted to get out, right?
Wh... who toId you that, sir? Tea Party? IIario?
It doesn't matter who toId me that. You teII me.
You don't want to know what happened out there, sir.
Yes, I do.
You just want me to sign off on the story...
..so you can finish yourjob and the Iady can get her medaI.
Are you refusing to teII me?
CoIoneI, you know what to do ifyou get a hang fire...
..when you puII the trigger and the round doesn't go off?
You wait, with your weapon pointed in a safe direction, cos the primer burns sIow.
You open your weapon and take the round out,...
..it bIows up in your face.
Leave this round in the chamber, CoIoneI.
I work at the Pentagon, Sergeant,...
..so I admit I'm a IittIe sIow on the uptake.
Otherwise I'd say you just threatened me.
Did you just threaten me, soIdier?
Because, ifyou did, Iet me respond to you.
Let me respond to you this way.
I'm an officer, and therefore, by procIamation, a gentIeman,...
..but don't abuse that, son.
Don't get in my cross hairs, because I'II have no compunction...
..about getting up to my neck in your ass, understand?
She was afraid, CoIoneI.
That's the bottom Iine on Captain WaIden. She was a fucking coward, sir.
Get me around so I can fire!
- Go back. Let me have another shot! - I don't know.
I'm going for aItitude, caII for support.
There's no time!
AII right, one more!
But then I'm caIIing for support.
Unhook the aux fueI ceIIs! Prepare to toss them overboard.
IIario, get me the fIare gun.
So it was your idea to use the fueI ceII?
Yeah.
Me, Rady, somebody.
AdrenaIine was pumping. You can't expect me to remember everything.
Try.
Now!
- Yay! - Whoo!
So what happened during the night?
WaIden and IIario,...
..they wouIdn't shut up about being rescued.
Like the Army had nothing eIse to do.
Dust is bIowing hard out there.
- Think they'II find us tonight? - AWACS Iost us when the ADT got hit.
SOP is for search and rescue to begin Iooking...
Christ, Captain, are you crying?
It's OK. It's just tension.
Hey, you're going to be OK, OK?
They'II find us. It'II be OK.
I can hear the ragheads moving, as soon as you girIs stop gabbing.
They're going away.
It was just a probe.
- Shit! - I'm OK.
- (Monfriez) I took one. - How's Rady?
Hanging in. Captain?
Ah! Oh!
So the rest ofthe night went without incident?
Yeah.
Wasn't that enough for one night?
You want to continue this tomorrow?
I don't get emotionaI about this shit.
I've been there, you know?
OK. Go on.
WeII, after the firefight, we argued mainIy.
IIario was freaked out by the dark, and WaIden wanted to surrender at first Iight.
She was a wreck, kept asking about the ammo, worrying we didn't have enough.
I knew they'd attack at dawn.
So what happened during the evacuation?
Evacuation.
(gunfiire)
AII right, Iet's go.
There's the rescue.
AItameyer, give me a hand with Rady.
- Come on, Captain! - Ow!
Come on!
- No! Don't move me! - Get away!
Suck it up!
I got you covered! Ready?
Go! Go! Go!
- IIario, move! - Not without the Captain!
I'II get her.
No! I'm not Ieaving!
I'm not Ieaving! It's not safe!
They're taking fire! The choppers are waiting!
No! No! No!
Get the fuck outta here!
Come on!
She fired at you?
Near us, yeah.
Then why did you Iie to the investigators about how she performed?
They'd aIready put together their own buIIshit version ofthe story...
..before they taIked to me. I toId them what they wanted to hear. We aII did.
But that's the truth, so forget about the medaI, or Ieave it as it is. I don't give a fuck.
So nobody from your Huey crew fired an M-16 any time during the rescue?
That's affirmed, sir.
Monfriez, you ready?
You sure about that?
That's affirmative, sir.
We had no ammo.
So how about it, CoIoneI?
Want to go a few rounds?
Are you threatening me, soIdier?
- Where's your brain bucket? - I don't need it.
Don't step in here without one.
I have to teII you again, you won't have a head to stick it on.
Come on, Jersey. Right here.
Let's see what you got.
You got nothing, man.
Come on!
(ringing tone)
- (Meredith) Hello. - HeIIo? Baby?
How're you doing?
Hi.
How',s itgoing?
Outstanding.
I was caIIing, I wondered...
What... what kind of...
What size T-shirts the kids wear?
I want to get the kids some T-shirts.
You know their sizes as weII as I do.
Are you OK?
Nat?
I got a pint of, um...
..Scotch here in a paper bag.
I don't want to drink any of it.
Can you teII me why you need it?
Want me to prattIe on for a minute? I can do that.
(Nat) Please.
OK. Um...
The new refrigerator doesn't work.
The Iight doesn't come on when you open the door.
I had to drive aII the way over to Wagner, 12 bIocks,...
..just so that Brian couId practise riding his bike.
He's afraid offaIIing in front of his friends.
He refuses to letanyone see him riding with training wheels.
They've both taken to sIeeping in our bed since you Ieft.
It's Iike sIeeping between two tornadoes.
I better go, baby.
Don BoyIar caIIed.
Jesus.
I better go.
- Nat, taIk to me. - I can't.
- Why not? - I can't!
BuIIshit. BuII! TaIk to me!
(dialling tone)
Oh, Christ.
CoIoneI?
Can we get some coffee, pIease?
You're not a happy man.
A woman? The Army?
AI Bathra?
TaIk to me.
Off the record, ifyou want.
Way, way offthe record.
Rangers' honour.
SerIing,...
How Iong you been back?
Six months.
And you... you've been in the service how Iong?
17 years.
Ah, they got me running this inquiry...
..on this girI piIot.
Captain Karen WaIden.
She'II be the first woman to get the MedaI of Honour for combat.
Oh, boy.
And everybody in the beItway wants a piece ofthis one, right?
I just want to get something cIear.
This time, just want somebody to be a hero.
I want to get something right.
Yeah.
Cos AI Bathra, you know...
AI Bathra.
You taIked to BoyIar's parents?
Yeah.
Do they know?
They heard from a few of his friends.
Aw, Jesus...
You know...
They toId BoyIar's parents he died from enemy fire.
I toId them that.
I carried the message, went to the funeraI,...
..watched his mother cry her eyes out.
I stood there and Iooked his father in the eye...
..and toId him his son died brave under fire.
And I was the one who gave the order to fire.
I did it.
Then the Army gave me a medaI...
..for bravery and vaIour.
Then they buried me...
..in medaIs.
Got a sense of humour, don't they?
Yeah.
Can't remember anything eIse except being in the Army.
Either being in it or wanting to be in it.
It's aII I know.
Look, you need to sIeep.
You caII me any time.
Anything you want to say about anything, on or offthe record.
I'm going to Ieave you aIone for a whiIe.
IIario. Are you saying you can't find him, or that he's absent without Ieave?
(man) Sir, that',s an l... l...
That's right, speciaIist IIario.
Well, we contacted the MPs, sir...
Roger.
Roger that.
Thank you.
Did she displayfear when she had to make these life-and-death decisions?
(IIario) No, never.
Karen,... the captain... she had this quality.
The heavier the pressure, the calmershe got.
And she... you know, she put up with a lot ofshit to become an offiicer.
Had to work twice as hard as everybody else, be twice as good.
She',d neverletherguard down, show anysign ofweakness.
But she was tough. She couldhandle it.
So, Iadies and gentIemen, what I have to say to you in cIosing...
..is to go forth,...
..to command wiseIy,...
..to advise prudentIy,...
..to protect with vigiIance...
..and to judge with care.
And above aII,...
..to defend with aII your heart, aII your souI...
..and aII your courage...
..the Iives ofthe men and women under your command,...
..and the United States ofAmerica.
Are you nowsaying you',ll reportagainsthergetting the medal?
As I expIained to the White House, there shouId be a further investigation...
..before we move forward. The discrepancies...
Another matter compIeteIy. Write up a second report.
That's my point, sir!
IIario's disappeared. AItameyer's missing.
- Who? - AItameyer, sir. WaIden's crew chief.
VA hospitaI's transferred him out three weeks ago.
Paperwork's missing.
Doesn't he have any famiIy?
Negative.
Fucking VA. We can't wait, Nat.
You cannot imagine the kind of heat I'm getting on this.
Everybody wants it.
Senators, congressmen, one shiny piece of something for peopIe to beIieve in.
WhoIe episode.
WaIden or AI Bathra?
Both, damn it, both.
Submit your report today.
I'm sorry, sir.
I won't put my name on an incompIete report.
May I remind you who recommended you for this when no-one eIse'd touch you?
You saying you chose me because I wouIdn't rock the boat?
DereIiction of duty, drunk and disorderIy, conduct unbecoming.
At best, a dishonourabIe discharge.
At worst, AI Bathra gives us pIenty of grounds, ifwe want 'em.
At Ieast somebody has finaIIy said it.
Nat, don't do this. I couId give you a direct order to submit your report.
Yes, you couId.
Put HiIIerman back on the WaIden fiIe!
I handed this to you, Nat, as a way back.
You couId've had one heII of a career.
And you give Meredith my best.
TeII her I didn't have any choice.
I'm going to finish this report.
On my own, if I have to.
I'm going to get this one right.
You want one?
No, thank you.
Why is it peopIe never want to eat when they got something important to say?
I aIways want to eat.
Need you to heIp me find somebody.
You want my heIp?
Yeah. Name's AItameyer. Steven AItameyer.
He was the crew chief on the medevac chopper, piIoted by Karen WaIden.
- One supposed to get a MedaI of Honour? - The very one.
- The Army's usuaIIy tidy about its peopIe. - Yeah, usuaIIy, but not this time.
First he demobbed, then they had him in a VA hospitaI.
They transferred him. Now no-one can find him.
Why do you need me?
Can't someone in the Pentagon heIp?
I'm out ofthe Ioop.
Somebody pissed at you?
- I'm out ofthe Ioop. - Somebody important?
- You want to heIp me or not? - Hey, who caIIed who here?
Yeah, sure, I'II heIp.
Just teII me why I'm doing it.
When you go after stories, you want them to be right, yes?
Yeah.
So do I.
OK.
So, I heIp you find this AItameyer,...
..and in return...?
There's a tape.
Sweet Jesus. There's aIways a tape.
- D'you want to hear this? - Yeah.
Yeah, go on.
There's a tape of aII communications between our tanks that night in AI Bathra.
Are they trying to make it disappear?
I don't think so, but they're not advertising its existence, either.
The Army and its image.
Where do I reach you when I find this AItameyer?
The Bethesda Arms.
A moteI?
- Bet everything's great in your Iife. - Outstanding.
SerIing,...
..eat something.
You Iook awfuI.
(Karen) # Make me an angeI
# FIies from Montgomery
# Make me a poster
# From an oId rodeo
# Just give me one thing
# That I can hoId on to
# To beIieve in this Iivin'
# It's just a...
# Hard way to go
# To beIieve in this Iivin'
# It's just a...
# Hard way
# To go
(telephone rings)
HeIIo.
(Gartner) FoundAltameyer.
Got any compIaints?
Excuse me?
Rashes, fatigue, bIeeding gums,...
..muscIe and joint pain, Ioss ofweight, Ioss of appetite,...
..insomnia, reactions to bright sunIight. You name it, we're seeing it.
I drink too much. Does that count?
HeII, we aII drink too much.
Here he is.
AItameyer, you want a shave?
GentIeman here to see you. You want a shave?
What's wrong with him?
AbdominaI cancer. That's what's kiIIing him.
There's many things wrong with him.
He's never awake very Iong with aII the pain.
I'II Ieave you two, then.
Thank you.
How you doing, Steven?
I'm CoIoneI SerIing.
Nat SerIing.
I want to taIk to you about Captain Karen WaIden.
They want to give her the MedaI of Honour,...
..and I know that you were there in AI Kufan with her.
Roger?
I was...
..hit.
In the back.
Roger.
But you were stiII abIe to get Rady out.
Rady.
Yeah.
Good man Rady.
I was...
..afraid.
I understand, son.
(groans)
That's OK. Take your time.
She was afraid.
She... she was afraid.
The Captain was afraid?
Not...
..the Captain.
Who then? Was it Rady or IIario?
Was IIario afraid?
Me.
Did... didn't teII.
You didn't teII what, son?
The major.
Monfriez.
You didn't teII the major Monfriez...
You... you and Monfriez didn't teII the major?
He...
..and then they...
You and Monfriez didn't teII the major.
(mumbles)
You and Monfriez what, Steven?
Oh, Jesus.
What? What is it?
TeII me son, pIease. What is it?
Jesus.
What? What?
The fire.
- What? What fire? - Oh, Jesus, the fire.
What fire?
The napaIm fire?
Jesus.
- You see the napaIm fire. - Jesus.
TeII me about the fire.
You and Monfriez didn't teII the major what about the fire?
- PIease, Jesus. - Steven!
Jesus, pIease.
Is it napaIm fire? Steven?
PIease, Jesus.
Jesus, pIease.
Steven.
Jesus.
PIease.
Jesus.
What's he doing?
He's upping his meds. SeIf-medication.
WeII, can you get him to stop?
I mean, I need to taIk to him.
Give him a break. He's feeIing no pain now.
(men singing marching cadence)
Left.
Get off my car, sir.
Think you got something to teII me, Sergeant.
I caIIed around.
You're offthis inquiry, so why you here?
Karen WaIden sent me.
I just Ieft AItameyer.
What happened out there that was so bad...
..that it wouId have AItameyer Iaying up in a hospitaI praying to die,...
..that's got IIario on the run?
That's right, he went AWOL.
What do you think he'II teII them about you when they catch him?
And they're going to catch him, son.
Now, you can teII them,...
..or you can teII me.
What happened out there?
Nothing happened.
Nothing happened, sir.
It was a war.
(slams car door)
Don't Iie to me, soIdier.
Don't Iie to me.
It doesn't matter whether she gets this award or not.
It doesn't matter whether I'm on this inquiry or whether I'm in this Army.
I'm going to find out the truth. I guarantee you that.
You said you were a good poker pIayer. WeII, Iook me in the eye.
You think I'm bIuffing?
No, thank you.
You want it.
I can smeII how much you want it. It's coming out ofyour pores.
TeII me about the fire.
I Iike trains.
Since I was a kid.
Big...
Tough...
Iron.
Used to be iron, anyway.
When I got to boxing pro, I was going to caII myseIfJohnny ''Night Train'' Monfriez.
- Don't that have a nice ring to it? - Very nice.
Don't humour me, man. Say it Iike you mean it.
Don't humour me, either. TeII me about the fire.
Where's my other bottIe?
You ever kiII anyone at cIose range with a smaII arm, sir?
It's messy.
No.
We're not taIking...
..one ofyour great big tank guns here.
Oh, that's OK.
I know what you did.
Your own men.
Guys under your command.
How'd it feeI?
Bad, right?
Very bad, son.
Very bad.
(train whistle)
And you didn't even mean to kiII them.
I've been a good soIdier.
A good soIdier.
(train whistle)
Listen to that whistIe.
Johnny ''Night Train'' Monfriez.
Say it.
Johnny ''Night Train'' Monfriez.
Now get out.
You don't want to do this, son.
Let me heIp you.
- It's too Iate. - It's never too Iate. Look at me.
Things get fucked up in war. I don't care what happened to you.
You can't do this.
Wrong!
I can't do anything eIse.
Yes, you can. You can put the car in reverse. Put the gun down.
We can heIp each other.
I don't want to Iose another good soIdier.
(cocks hammer)
I strongIy urge you...
..to dismount the vehicIe, sir.
Monfriez. Monfriez!
(screeching)
Aah!
(IIario) lmagine that.
lmagine not thinking about the consequences.
lt',s not the doing shit thatgets to you, it',s the consequences.
My folks used to have this place out on Calaveras Lake.
l still go there sometimes.
Guess you toId me about this pIace so I'd know where to find you.
It's beautifuI.
The MPs at Fort Stewart...
..found your stash in your Iocker.
Pretty ingenious pIace to keep it, huh?
Not ifyou wanted it to be found.
Where'd you hide the needIe tracks?
I, uh...
I shoot up between my toes.
Monfriez is dead.
KiIIed himseIf.
AItameyer is dying.
Aren't we aII?
Mayday! Mayday! Dustoff-3, we're going down!
We're going down! Mayday!
Mayday! Mayday! Dustoff-3, we're going down!
We're going down!
And the chopper went down?
What happened next?
What happened next isn't important. It's what happened that night.
Monfriez wanted to make a run for it.
At dawn we're dead. They'II have reinforcements.
Escape and evasion, Captain.
Now's the time to do it. Maybe we'd sIip by them in the dark.
I toId you,...
..Rady can't be moved.
Right, IIario?
That Iung - any movement may kiII him. But he may die Iying here.
You see? Rady wiII never make it. I say we go.
Oh, great.
Great. The Captain's crying.
It's just tension, asshoIe.
It doesn't mean shit.
Come on, Captain. I don't want to wait here to die.
IIario?
- I don't know. - Come on, it's a majority.
That'd be great ifthis was a democracy, but it isn't.
We stay with Rady.
I wouIdn't risk your Iife. I won't risk his.
So ifwe surrender, the Iraqis wouId doctor him up.
No surrender.
(footsteps)
I hear something moving.
- I say we make for the chopper now. - And I say I heard enough ofthat shit.
You don't have to go. We don't need your permission.
I am in command here!
WeII, maybe not any more.
Give me the saw, Monfriez.
I can't stop you from running, but you're not taking our fire power with you.
You're not taking away my weapon.
Yes, I am.
Hey, I can make a white fIag, aII right?
There's no way you're taking away my weapon, cunt.
Section 28-J,...
..code of miIitaryjustice.
Mutiny,...
..an offence punishabIe by death.
Jesus, Monfriez.
Shut up! She's trying to get us kiIIed!
IIario, who you with?
Come on, IIario, shithead, do you want to die?
PIease, Captain.
Oh!
Unh.
They're going away.
It was just a probe.
Oh.
Shit.
(Altameyer) Are you aII right?
(Walden) Shit!
Oh, my God.
Shit.
I don't fucking beIieve it.
Give me your weapon.
Christ, I thought you were firing at me!
(click)
You're wounded, ma'am. Let me see.
You're with him.
You got to Iet me Iook at it.
Christ, Iet him Iook at it!
I gave birth to a nine-pound baby,...
..asshoIe!
I think I can handIe it!
Cap, we got to get you out of here.
We stay with Rady.
- And then? - And then...
- (Altameyer) Incoming! - (explosions)
150 metres and cIosing!
(Altameyer) 140!
(Altameyer) 130!
Give me my weapon!
IIario, how's Rady?
- He's dead! - No, he's aIive!
Come on, Captain, give him his weapon!
- This is insane! Give me my weapon! - Shut up!
90 metres and cIosing!
80!
I'm sorry.
OK. OK.
OK, we'II get you out of here, Captain.
It's aII over.
No, Monfriez,...
..it's not over.
There wiII be a reckoning.
Count on it.
Hey, what's that?
(helicopters)
There's the rescue!
Let's move it! Move it!
Move it! Move it!
No!
Wait.
HeIp Rady.
We're pinned down here!
IIario, give me the M-16.
Give me the goddamn M-16!
I'II cover you.
Go!
I'II cover you!
Negative, ma'am!
Come back for me with a stretcher and more guns!
- Karen, pIease! - Go! It's an order!
Karen, pIease!
Go! Go!
Wait!
Where's WaIden?
She's dead!
No!
Monfriez said she wouId have court-martiaIIed us.
AItameyer was too fucked up to say anything.
She was...
She was probabIy kiIIed by smaII arms...
..before the napaIm ever hit.
Either way,...
..she never couId have survived that stomach wound.
You think that matters?
No.
Hmm.
I couIdn't bear to send this.
Uh, I didn't even want to...
I didn't even want to touch it.
Uh...
Can you get it to her parents for me?
Can you...?
PIease?
Yeah.
Uh, Iisten, I'm going to have to caII you back.
You got offthe phone for me?
- You'II want me there for this. - Meaning?
Remember that stereo you toId me not to buy cos who needs a duaI cassette deck?
When does anyone ever have a reason to copy a tape?
Nat, just the man I wanted to see.
Uh, do you know CoIoneI SerIing?
This is Tony Gartner of the Washington Post.
He was with the 9th in Vietnam.
Mr Gartner.
CoIoneI.
Take a seat, Nat.
He's foIIowing up our investigation ofAI Bathra,...
..and it seems that he has a few questions that he'd Iike to ask us.
Let's give him every faciIity.
- I appreciate that. - Some ground ruIes, though.
I insist we be aIIowed to scheduIe the reIease of aII information...
..to the pubIic regarding casuaIties.
WeII, I wish I couId accommodate you, sir,...
..but, unfortunateIy, we'II be going with a story based on a tape that I've acquired...
..of aII radio communications that night.
So,...
..I'd Iike you to Iisten...
..and then comment for the record.
I can't comment for the record.
This is an ongoing investigation.
(Serling) Firstright! Turn to the right!
Sabre-6, this is Bobcat-5.
Enemy tangos! Say again! Enemy tanks in ourlines. Over.
(BoyIar) Sabre-6, this is Cougar-6. Enemy tangos atphase line delta...
- I don't think any more ofthis... - This is what happened, GeneraI.
(SerIing) Liberty-6, this is Sabre-6. Enemy tanks on ourflank. Out!
Patella, fiindme a target.
- l thinklgot one, sir. - Do you or do you nothave a target?
lt mustbe, sir. They',re fiiring at us.
Loader!
Up, sir!
Fire!
On the way!
- Target! We got thatsucker! - Yeah!
Sabre-6, wejustlost Cougar-6. Repeat, wejustlostBoylar.
Roger that, sir. We gothim.
- Youjustlit up a friendly. - Roger that. We... What?
- Youjustlit up a friendly, goddamn it! - (turns offtape)
Cougar-6 was one ofyour own Abrams, CoIoneI SerIing. Is that correct?
Yes, that's correct.
Sabre-6, Nat, what',s happening? Sabre-6, report.
(Serling) Patella, was that one ofour tanks?
They fiired.
At us orat the T-72s?
l don',tknow.
- At us orat the T-72s, Patella? - l don',tknow!
- Colonel Serling, reportstatus now. - (bang)
They have range on us!
All Sabre elements, stop all tanks, turn on yourlights.
I say again, stop aII tanks and turn on your Iights.
Sabre-6, Nat, what',s happening out there?
Load us up.
PateIIa, find me a target. Snap out of it. Find me a target.
PateIIa, come on!
- Target! - We're up.
- Lights on or off? - Off.
- Fire! - On the way.
- Sir? - Fire!
Colonel Serling, reportstatus now!
Sabre-6, situation under control, General.
GeneraI, CoIoneI SerIing's order to activate Iights,...
..was that a standard response to enemy infiItration ofthe Iines?
At the criticaI moment,...
..in spite ofterribIe Iosses,...
..CoIoneI SerIing didn't hesitate to act.
Ordering those tanks to turn on their Iights...
..saved the Iives of God knows how many of our men.
Heroic acts arise...
..out of desperate circumstances.
I have no troubIe at aII beIieving that CoIoneI SerIing is a hero.
Like Captain Karen WaIden.
Did you know, Mr Gartner, for the first time a woman is being considered...
..for the MedaI of Honour for her performance under fire?
And, um,...
..CoIoneI SerIing...
..is just finishing up the inquiry.
How's that going, Nat?
I think, uh,...
..in order to honour a soIdier Iike Karen WaIden,...
..we have to teII the truth, GeneraI,...
..about what happened over there.
The whoIe, hard,...
..coId truth.
And untiI we do that, uh,...
..we dishonour her...
..and every soIdier who died,...
..who gave their Iife for their country.
My fuII report, GeneraI.
Few of us are given the opportunity,...
..even fewer the courage,...
..to sacrifice ourseIves for the Iives of our comrades.
In daiIy Iife, even as in battIe,...
..each one of us is mysteriousIy and irrevocabIy bound to our feIIow man.
And yet,...
..it is onIy in death that the power ofthis bond...
..is finaIIy tested and proven.
And who among us reaIIy knows...
..how he might respond when that moment comes?
(man) I guess we've been expecting you.
Ahem. First of aII, Iet me, um...
Let me just say that, uh,...
..there was nothing that, uh,...
..Tom and I wouIdn't do for each other.
Nothing.
He was a good soIdier.
He was Iike a brother to me.
That night, uh, 25 February...
..there were enemy tanks in our Iines.
We thought...
I... I thought that, uh,...
..Tom's tank was an enemy tank.
And, uh,...
..I gave the order to fire.
God heIp me.
I, um...
Yeah, I kiIIed him.
As for the funeraI,...
..the Iies the Army toId...
..and the Iies that I toId...
..to you, I can onIy...
..beg for your forgiveness.
As far as the...
As far as that night, um,...
..I guess there's no way that, uh,...
..I can even begin to ask you to forgive me.
I know that,...
..but it's a burden you're going to have to put down sometime.
Thank you, sir.
Mr President.
(engines roaring)
(Karen) Dear Mom and Dad,...
..weII, this is it - the big push.
Looks Iike it's gonna reaIIy happen.
And I'm afraid,...
..not of being hurt or kiIIed,...
..weII, kind of, but not much.
My onIy regret wiII be to never see you two again...
..and that I'II never see Anne Marie grow up.
But I know she's in good hands, the best.
What I'm reaIIy afraid of is that I might Iet my peopIe down, my crew.
These peopIe depend on me. They put their Iives in my hands.
I just can't faiI 'em.
Now, I know ifyou get this Ietter...
..it means I'm dead.
I onIy hope that I've made you proud,...
..that I did myjob,...
..and I didn't Iet down my country,...
..my crew, my feIIow soIdiers.
I Iove you guys.
Never stop teIIing Anne Marie how much I Iove her.
Your daughter, Karen.
You got it? AII right.
(sighs)
(helicopter)
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