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Quotes from the Miniseries
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“Why not? It’s been thirty years Pete. Thirty years I’ve been
waiting, wondering, where it’s all gonna end.”
- Sam to his ADC
*****
“Honey, I’ve changed. It’s the Army. Cele, I like it. I mean really like
it. I been playing at it or dreaming about being a soldier
ever since I was a kid. It’s like if I was ever going to do
anything with my life, the place I was going to do it was the
Army. Maybe it’s this war coming. I don’t know but I do
know that I belong there.”
- Sam to his hometown girl
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“Hell’s fire Major … Old Sarge (Sam), he done it hisself. He just busted right on in there and shot it out with a whole passel of Prussians just like a hangtown drawfighter.”
- Raebyrne to Maj. Caldwell
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“It’s really bogged down now Mom. Advance a few hundred yards and lose it a week later. I’ts hard and it’s tough, but we’re still together, Dev and Brewster, Kraz and Fergy and Reb. Somehow we’re going to get through this. I can’t explain it but there’s something about doing what’s asked of you, of doing it well, of fighting harder than ever when you think you’re going to drop, cause you’re doing what’s right, doin’ what’s gotta be done.”
- Sam, in a letter to his mother
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“Captain. If you think Private Raebyrne is better off dead than alive with one leg, then you just go and tell him but don’t tell me and don’t tell the doctor. We didn’t send him out into those trenches. You can take full credit for that.”
- Nurse Caldwell to Sam
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“I know exactly what you meant. Look son. This war isn’t being fought for your personal gratification. Those men aren’t dying so you can make major. Try to be patient. You have all the qualities to get to the top, all the qualities. I just feel sorry for anyone who gets in your way.”
- Col. Sheffield to Massengale
*****
“I hope that you are killed Captain. I pray that
you will be wounded horribly, that you will suffer and that your
death will come slowly.”
- Michelle to Sam
*****
“You’re that kind of guy Sam. You see a thing
and that’s the only way it can be. You pull people right along,
because you’re so sure. But you’re wrong Sam. What good is it?
What good is any of it? They’re going to roll me in a poncho and
shovel me under. And who’s better off for it? Anybody? Oh Jesus,
I don’t want to die!”
- Devlin to Sam
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“I’m going to carry a piece of that with me for quite a while,
wherever I go. I’m not sure why he (Devlin) died, why any of ‘em
died but the colonel’s right. It’s coming again and it’s scary.
That’s why I’m staying in, to help make sure we’re ready. The next
time we’ve got to be ready.”
- Sam, in a letter to his mother
*****
“Be careful that you do not learn to love war too
well.”
- Lin Tso han to Sam
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“You’re in a class all by yourself. You’re the
knight errant of the drill field, a misguided dreamer who
can’t tell the difference between top soil and plain old manure.
- Tommy to Sam
*****
“I just don’t belong here. I could stay around
here and go through the motions. I would do pretty good at
it too, make some money, but that’s just not me Tommy. I
know that now. I really know it. I’m a soldier not a shipping
clerk, not a banker, -- a soldier.”
- Sam to Tommy
*****
“You’ve got two loves Sam and there’s nothing I can do about
it short of making you choose, and I won’t do that.”
-Tommy
to Sam
*****
“Hey Major, knock it off, huh? Plant your
sweet and rosy kisses on somebody else’s backside. I don’t
like you. You don’t like me. Let’s leave it at that.”
-Ben to Massengale
*****
“You can’t. You really can’t. Emily said once
that…she was drunk. I thought it was a joke. Oh Court, I
didn’t know. I’m sorry, so sorry.”
- Tommy to Massengale
*****
“I’ll make you a promise. Our son is not going
to fight in your war. I’ll see to that.”
- Tommy to Sam
*****
“You’re too good a soldier to walk away from the
division now. We both know it. I don’t ask you to like the
order, just obey it.”
- Massengale to Sam
*****
“What you did was plain murder and I’m going to
see you pay for it.”
- Sam to Massengale
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