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We Were Soldiers (2002)
R | 138 min | Action, Drama, History | 1 March 2002 (USA)

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

Director: Randall Wallace

Writers: Harold G. Moore (book) (as Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore) , Joseph L. Galloway (book)

Stars: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear
Transcript
00:00Daddy, what is a war?
00:25It's when some people try to take the lives of other people, and then soldiers like your
00:32daddy have to, you know, it's my job to go over there and stop them.
00:40Welcome to the new cavalry.
00:42We will ride into battle, and this will be our horse.
00:47Flying to hostile territory outnumbered 10,000 miles from home, they want to fly with you
00:52for some reason.
00:53I guess it's because they think you're the best.
00:54I'm supposed to have a choice in all this.
00:57You sure don't.
00:58I have today ordered to Vietnam 125,000 men.
01:04Additional forces will be needed later.
01:06We'll be landing under fire, gentlemen.
01:13Men will die.
01:14We are going into battle against a tough and determined enemy.
01:21It's pitch black.
01:22I can't see anything.
01:23We need illumination on the perimeter.
01:28Men are so young, and when I look at them, I see our boys.
01:33What do you think about being a soldier and a father?
01:36I hope that being good at the one makes me better at the other.
01:40When we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the
01:47last to step off.
01:50But we will all come home together.
01:53Do you know the most common thing an American soldier says when he's dying on the battlefield?
02:15Tell my wife.
02:16I love her.
02:17Those are my men out there.
02:18I'm going in to get them.
02:19You men have done a hell of a job today.
02:20They won't get through us, sir.
02:21You can count on it.
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