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so

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sop number 54

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execution of death sentence imposed by

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court martial

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the place of execution will be prepared

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to provide for a back wall made of

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absorbent material

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for which the prisoner will be placed

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an upright post will be placed in front

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of the back wall

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and will be used to support the prisoner

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if necessary

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well they don't miss a trick do they

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if while the condemned is being prepared

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for or march 2 the place of execution

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collapse has taken place or resemblance

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a suitable backboard and strap shall be

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attached

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what did he do around here before the

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war uh coal mining town a slug smoke old

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town any i don't know no somebody told

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me detroit

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carrier from army headquarters i got

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delivered here for major filming all

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right so i have to come in by foot

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courier's here sir

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send him in

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sergeant bowen sir how do you sergeant

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are these the sops yes sir

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i uh had to call headquarters for some

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advanced specifics but i'll still need

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these

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all right that'll be all sergeant yes

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sir

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sergeant yes sir

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is there much talk about this among the

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men yes sir

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well how do they feel about it

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well i guess they figure he's got it

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coming sir

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thank you sergeant

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uh you'll do soldier step over here

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this man is more or less the same size

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and height as the prisoner

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now it might help if you think of the

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heart as a circle it's a semi-round

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organ and it's found in the

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area of the lower third of the

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breastbone in other words here not up

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here some people think but here right

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here

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sir uh maybe it would help if they

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pinned a piece of paper over the

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prisoner's heart i mean it would give us

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a target name for well it's a bit

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theatrical don't you think

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you're all expert marksmen so you

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shouldn't have any difficulty

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just go for a grouping at this specific

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area

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any other questions

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then that completes the medical

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orientation thank you soldier

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i believe the chaplain has a few words

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to say i'll see all of you in the

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morning

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that's hardly necessary under the

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circumstances

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excuse me son

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i think some of you gentlemen may know

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me

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i'm father stafford

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now i've been assigned to this uh

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same as you

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my main job is to be with a prisoner but

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i thought maybe until he

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arrives at uh

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some of you boys might want to talk

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hmm

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no huh

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that's funny i don't think i've ever met

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12 soldiers before didn't have something

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to say

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well sir i guess

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if you want to know the truth

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all of us feel pretty bad about this

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yeah that's uh only natural sir

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i mean i

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i tried to get out of it

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i went to my ceo and asked if there was

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some way i could be relieved he said not

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unless you want to take his place

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well no you've seen combat

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so it can't be the idea of killing a man

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is it no sir

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but i don't have much stomach for

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shooting one of our own

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he's a deserter

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there's lots of deserters nobody ever

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shot one before

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at least not in this war

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any catholics here

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and he was catholic

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how about you soldier any problems

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well i've been half tempted to aim a

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little high

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you know maybe kind of miss

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but i guess i probably won't

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i'll do what i'm told

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but i'm not going to like it

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the point isn't it

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nobody

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is asking you to like it huh

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but you're going to do as you're told

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how you're all going to perform to the

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best of your ability i know you will

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and boys none of us made this decision

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but we're the men who are

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ordered to carry it out

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a higher authority

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has accepted the moral responsibility

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i'll say mass for the prisoner out grant

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him absolution

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and you'll execute him

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when you get out there

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when you fire

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remember he's already in god's hands and

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you've got nothing to be ashamed of

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right here

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i'm not going to miss i'll tell you that

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he didn't give a damn how many of us got

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the hell shot out of us so why should we

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care about him

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i was here before uh remember uh have

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you acquired the uh cloth

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post

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good

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boom

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i want you to make uh

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the in um

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a hood

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hood

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for the face

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put la visage

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it must be ready by this evening

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comprehensive

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no

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no holes for the eyes

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[ __ ] swab

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when the hood has been adjusted and

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signaled given that the prisoner's in

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final readiness the firing squad will be

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formed facing the prisoner and not less

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than 20 paces from him the members of

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the firing squad will be armed with

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regulation rifles each of which will

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have been loaded and the pieces locked

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one of the rifles will contain a blank

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round and the identity of this piece

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will not be disclosed each of the

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remaining rifles will contain one round

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of service ammunition

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the officer charged with the execution

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of the sentence will take over the

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firing squad in command

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one squad two ready three aim for fire

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at the command fire each member of the

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firing squad will discharge his piece

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point blank at the prisoner's heart if

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in the opinion of the medical officers

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the prisoner has not sustained a mortal

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wound the rifles will be reloaded and

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the procedure will be repeated until

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there is inflicted a mortal wound from

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which extinction of life

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is immediately imminent

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by command of general eisenhower

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all right

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we'll have a dry run

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are the pieces unloaded lieutenant yes

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sir

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all right here we go

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squad

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in hut

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arms

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squad

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ready

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aim

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fire

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order

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arms

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daddy

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any questions

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all right

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now you know what's required of you

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just make sure that your aim is good

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make one shot do the job

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and don't mess it up

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all right lieutenant take over squat ten

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hut

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right

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face

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right shoulder

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arms

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come left

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march

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call left

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march

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did you have a talk on them

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they'll be fine they're good boys any

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word on when he's getting here

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ali's due tonight they already left

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paris but there's a

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no in the mountains they could be held

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up

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had a bunch of letters from his wife

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hope he has time to read them

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yeah

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what is this thing

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that's a collapse board

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collapse lord

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well the man is a condemned coward

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father he may not be able to walk out

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here under his own steam they'd carry

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them huh

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if they have to look father i don't like

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it either but it has to be done

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well

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i bought some coffee

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now you tell me we'll be bunking

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together tonight

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probably won't get much sleeping done

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so we should get to know each other

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pretty well

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like herod and pilate

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that's two coffees and some sandwiches

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yo what about you eddie you want

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something no thanks you sure we'll

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probably get some warm soup inside no

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it's okay i'm not hungry thanks anyway

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okay damn snow

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i probably won't get there until morning

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yeah

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if we're lucky

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you guys mind if i stretch my life

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i guess it don't matter gotta keep the

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cuffs on though yeah sure

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ready

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stay inside eh i will

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boy what's he want to go and freeze his

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butt out for

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so it catch it cold

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doesn't much matter does it

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come on boy

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come on

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come here phil come on come on come on

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over here come on come on

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come on

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is it cool huh

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that's a good one

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okay filming

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can you guys do me a favor

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well what's that eddie

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let me start running

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what do you mean

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i just take off you know

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we'd have to shoot you

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at know i get it over with

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can eddie they got a big show planned

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for you tomorrow

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well what difference does it make if

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it's now or tomorrow

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sorry eddie you know we can't

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what's going on

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all right he's just getting some air

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come on we gotta get going

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00:16:51,279 --> 00:16:53,839
well he was weak as dishwater

299
00:16:53,839 --> 00:16:57,519
but he was a friendly good-hearted kid

300
00:16:57,519 --> 00:16:58,720
we had him at the michigan state

301
00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,199
reformatory for three years until he was

302
00:17:01,199 --> 00:17:04,000
paroled in 1942

303
00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,559
never had a boy i liked more

304
00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:08,720
he'd had a few scrapes with the law

305
00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:10,319
minor stuff mostly

306
00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:12,799
but he wasn't resentful i mean he didn't

307
00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:14,079
hate anybody

308
00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:15,599
and as for the army

309
00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:17,119
that was no problem

310
00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:18,959
he was automatically 4f like all our

311
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boys

312
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[Music]

313
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you take care of yourself eddie yes sir

314
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i will

315
00:17:26,319 --> 00:17:29,200
a lot of opportunity out there nowadays

316
00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,360
half the menard war you shouldn't have

317
00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:34,000
any trouble moving up i'll be fine sir

318
00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,480
you just report to your parole board

319
00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,360
find yourself a good woman

320
00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:41,600
stay away from bad company don't worry

321
00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,039
sir i will

322
00:17:43,039 --> 00:17:44,880
only one out of four of our boys makes

323
00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,559
it it's not the best odds

324
00:17:48,559 --> 00:17:50,559
but i think you've got a good chance i

325
00:17:50,559 --> 00:17:53,280
think so sir

326
00:17:55,039 --> 00:17:56,559
got a way to get home yes sir my sister

327
00:17:56,559 --> 00:17:59,120
come up there oh well goodbye sir

328
00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:00,000
good-bye

329
00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000
uh mr anhert uh

330
00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,360
do you mind if i write to you let you

331
00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:04,640
know how i'm getting on

332
00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:06,080
i'd like that

333
00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,760
okay i will

334
00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,000
you do me a favor yes sir

335
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,720
don't come back

336
00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,120
i won't

337
00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:17,520
goodbye

338
00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:20,480
after he died

339
00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,400
they tell me they found my name on him

340
00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:23,760
in a notebook

341
00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:25,760
strange in a way

342
00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,120
well i'm not going to criticize the

343
00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:29,200
united states for shooting them

344
00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:30,960
when you've got a big war to win you

345
00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:32,080
don't have time to give too much

346
00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,960
consideration to one weak little man

347
00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:36,640
but i could have told them this

348
00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,240
i could have said

349
00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,000
you can take eddie slovik and teach him

350
00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,760
how to march instead

351
00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,520
and you can hand him a gun

352
00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:44,799
and you can march him right up to the

353
00:18:44,799 --> 00:18:47,280
battle line and make him dig a hole but

354
00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:48,640
when it gets dark

355
00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,400
and that first shell goes off over his

356
00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,120
head he's either going to freeze right

357
00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:54,960
there in the bottom of that hole

358
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,520
or else he's gonna jump out and run

359
00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:58,799
and there's nothing you can do to

360
00:18:58,799 --> 00:19:02,200
prevent it

361
00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,320
the first time i saw him he was wearing

362
00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,960
a new gray suit

363
00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,520
he was with his sister

364
00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,080
good morning morning margaret

365
00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,080
well this must be eddie

366
00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:23,600
uh

367
00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:24,400
eddie

368
00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,360
this is antoinette visniewski

369
00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:30,320
it's nice to meet you how do you do

370
00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:34,320
your sister talks about you all the time

371
00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:36,840
mr

372
00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,760
cirelli won't you sit down

373
00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,160
margaret

374
00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:44,799
did you have any trouble with the car it

375
00:19:44,799 --> 00:19:48,960
worked perfectly that's wonderful

376
00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:52,320
uh

377
00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,000
i guess i should tell you how grateful i

378
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,760
am for riding the parole board and

379
00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:57,440
trying to get me this job oh it's

380
00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,280
nothing really yeah you didn't even know

381
00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:00,559
me

382
00:20:00,559 --> 00:20:02,559
you already took a chance well if anyone

383
00:20:02,559 --> 00:20:04,640
regrets it i'm afraid it'll be you

384
00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,240
50 cents an hour isn't very much

385
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,520
and you'll earn every penny

386
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,640
joe cirelli how you do sir eddie slovak

387
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,480
antoinette here thinks i'm a tight man

388
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,240
with a buck but if you work hard i just

389
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,080
might give you a raise

390
00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:25,919
you got any objection to digging ditches

391
00:20:25,919 --> 00:20:27,440
no sir i'll do anything

392
00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,440
good plumbing's a dirty business but

393
00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,120
there's money in it

394
00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:32,840
so when can you

395
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,520
start you want me to sir

396
00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,679
well now's as good a time as any come on

397
00:20:37,679 --> 00:20:41,039
upstairs i'll get you some overalls

398
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,360
you're the bookkeeper can we afford to

399
00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:45,280
uh give this young man an advance on his

400
00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,320
salary i'll juggle a few figures he

401
00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,480
thinks he runs the place trouble is she

402
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,320
does

403
00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,720
come on

404
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:56,799
oh sorry

405
00:20:56,799 --> 00:20:57,919
thank you

406
00:20:57,919 --> 00:20:59,760
vices

407
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:01,200
he told me that he fell in love the

408
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:02,880
first time he saw me

409
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,559
it's funny but i think i knew it

410
00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,919
eddie made himself so handy that he got

411
00:21:13,919 --> 00:21:15,919
raises every two or three weeks he went

412
00:21:15,919 --> 00:21:18,000
from 50 cents an hour to a dollar five

413
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,159
with time and a half for overtime

414
00:21:20,159 --> 00:21:22,480
but he wasn't much for working late he

415
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,880
told me that it interfered with his

416
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,880
courting

417
00:21:31,150 --> 00:21:34,359
[Music]

418
00:21:38,159 --> 00:21:40,960
okay thank you

419
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,500
here you go

420
00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:48,640
[Music]

421
00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,400
how did you get in trouble

422
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,240
well i was uh helping out in this drug

423
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,320
store in detroit

424
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:13,200
and uh

425
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:13,919
i

426
00:22:13,919 --> 00:22:16,240
just took home some gum and candy and

427
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,480
stuff

428
00:22:18,559 --> 00:22:20,640
and uh

429
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,159
i used to

430
00:22:22,159 --> 00:22:26,360
pocket some change every now and then

431
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,919
if i get set up for embezzlement

432
00:22:29,919 --> 00:22:32,400
bottoms up

433
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,200
a lot

434
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,720
from six months to ten years

435
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,679
no i mean money well

436
00:22:41,679 --> 00:22:46,039
the amount in the complaint was 59.60

437
00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:51,520
how old were you

438
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,840
17.

439
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,200
candy gum and cigarettes how's it

440
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,280
becoming better

441
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,320
and you served a year

442
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,880
nine months

443
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:04,720
buyers were smart you know

444
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,240
as soon as i got out i started hanging

445
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,840
around with the guys and

446
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,320
one night um

447
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,440
we all got bearded up and

448
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,640
i always stole the car

449
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,159
just to go for a ride

450
00:23:22,159 --> 00:23:24,240
anyway we

451
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,320
just get it on some ice and smashed into

452
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,720
a building

453
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,240
i wasn't driving or anything but

454
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,840
i turned myself

455
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,320
in this time i got three years

456
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,279
but that's it i swear that's it

457
00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:42,559
most i have a drink of these anymore

458
00:23:42,559 --> 00:23:45,039
it's just two

459
00:23:45,039 --> 00:23:46,640
why

460
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,880
well

461
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,720
in my neighborhood

462
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,279
you did what your friends did

463
00:23:53,279 --> 00:23:54,880
everybody was quitting school so i quit

464
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,120
school

465
00:23:57,120 --> 00:23:59,279
everybody's father was out of work

466
00:23:59,279 --> 00:24:00,080
you know

467
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,039
the depression and all

468
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:04,799
and uh

469
00:24:04,799 --> 00:24:07,130
there's just never enough money

470
00:24:07,130 --> 00:24:10,389
[Music]

471
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,799
and

472
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:18,799
now well you

473
00:24:18,799 --> 00:24:20,720
you know mr anhart at the reformatory

474
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,039
told me

475
00:24:23,039 --> 00:24:24,960
yeah he said uh

476
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,520
i find myself a job

477
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,919
and a good woman

478
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,300
so far i got the job

479
00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:40,660
[Music]

480
00:24:43,679 --> 00:24:47,840
i'm really having a swell time me too

481
00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:54,400
[Music]

482
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:55,919
see when i was

483
00:24:55,919 --> 00:24:57,679
three years old i had to get operated on

484
00:24:57,679 --> 00:24:59,520
because i was born bull legged

485
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:00,799
oh

486
00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:01,760
yeah

487
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,360
and the way they do it is they have to

488
00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:05,120
break your legs in four different places

489
00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:05,760
and

490
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,720
then they straighten them out

491
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:10,799
although i was only three i don't

492
00:25:10,799 --> 00:25:12,720
remember it but i still have pain even

493
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,039
now you know here

494
00:25:15,039 --> 00:25:17,120
oh thanks when i was in jail i used to

495
00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:18,960
work in the furniture shop

496
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:19,919
and uh

497
00:25:19,919 --> 00:25:22,320
i used to take the alcohol and rub it on

498
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,240
my legs to kill the pain and

499
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:25,440
everybody thought i was using it to get

500
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,110
drunk

501
00:25:27,110 --> 00:25:30,730
[Laughter]

502
00:25:30,799 --> 00:25:32,880
how did you hurt your leg

503
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,720
oh i was born with one like shorter than

504
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,080
them

505
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,640
i don't care

506
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,400
and then when i was 12 i had imprototype

507
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,799
paralysis well

508
00:25:42,799 --> 00:25:46,080
was it said yeah

509
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:51,120
you folks pay this off uh-huh

510
00:25:51,679 --> 00:25:52,799
would you believe it i've never been in

511
00:25:52,799 --> 00:25:54,080
the house was owned by the people who

512
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,799
lived there

513
00:25:56,799 --> 00:25:59,600
do you want to come in

514
00:26:01,279 --> 00:26:02,640
no

515
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,600
maybe next time though

516
00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:09,600
uh

517
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,400
well it was really nice eddie thank you

518
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,960
good night good night

519
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,120
hey

520
00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:18,400
oh thanks

521
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:19,360
you want to go to the movies again

522
00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:20,799
tomorrow night the show's gonna change

523
00:26:20,799 --> 00:26:22,240
oh i already have a day i'm gonna marry

524
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:23,039
you

525
00:26:23,039 --> 00:26:26,240
what i'm gonna marry you

526
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:29,919
has she agreed to this

527
00:26:29,919 --> 00:26:33,520
um no sir not yet but she will

528
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,000
eddie look at the facts

529
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,640
she's older than you are she's better

530
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,880
educated she makes more money

531
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,120
i know i'm just getting started you got

532
00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:44,960
nothing in common

533
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,640
is that the basis for a good marriage

534
00:26:48,799 --> 00:26:51,120
i don't know sir

535
00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:52,559
but

536
00:26:52,559 --> 00:26:55,520
i just really love her

537
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,440
eddie i'm your parole officer it's my

538
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,279
job to keep you clean

539
00:27:01,279 --> 00:27:03,919
now i'm sure she's a perfectly nice lady

540
00:27:03,919 --> 00:27:06,000
maybe too nice

541
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,080
you both live different lives but that's

542
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,360
what i mean sir

543
00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:11,279
i want to live her life from now on

544
00:27:11,279 --> 00:27:13,120
she's real good for me why don't you let

545
00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:14,480
it ride for a while

546
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,640
think it over

547
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,600
i'm sorry sir

548
00:27:19,679 --> 00:27:22,799
i've already made up my mind

549
00:27:26,559 --> 00:27:29,039
all right

550
00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:31,279
but i have to meet her okay

551
00:27:31,279 --> 00:27:32,640
and she has to be willing to let us

552
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,880
investigate our background right

553
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,240
then you'll both be hearing from us by

554
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,320
mail as well thanks a lot sir

555
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,120
eddie whoa

556
00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:44,480
aren't you putting a card before the

557
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:45,360
horse

558
00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,840
sir we may say yes but what about the

559
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,000
lady oh don't worry she'll go along she

560
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,559
just doesn't know yet

561
00:27:54,710 --> 00:27:59,700
[Applause]

562
00:28:02,399 --> 00:28:05,520
edward donald slowly yes ma'am

563
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:10,320
[Applause]

564
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,159
you've served two sentences in the

565
00:28:12,159 --> 00:28:15,039
michigan state reformatory yes ma'am

566
00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:16,720
then why are you here you know you've

567
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,000
been classified for it

568
00:28:21,039 --> 00:28:23,200
we just wanted to make sure

569
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,120
it's standard procedure when a man has a

570
00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:26,799
record

571
00:28:26,799 --> 00:28:28,880
can that

572
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:33,679
change i'd say it's very unlikely

573
00:28:37,279 --> 00:28:41,039
thank you yes thanks for your time

574
00:28:41,290 --> 00:28:42,480
[Applause]

575
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,399
didn't i tell you

576
00:28:44,399 --> 00:28:46,159
so what do you say well i guess it's

577
00:28:46,159 --> 00:28:48,960
official sure it is they don't want me i

578
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,640
get all the time in the world

579
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,240
i can get a better job and save some

580
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,080
money but see it doesn't mean anything

581
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,679
if i just do it for myself

582
00:28:55,679 --> 00:28:58,240
i want it to be for us now look eddie we

583
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,399
don't have to rush into into oh i'm

584
00:29:00,399 --> 00:29:02,399
sorry there are so many practical

585
00:29:02,399 --> 00:29:04,159
considerations i need you

586
00:29:04,159 --> 00:29:05,679
i really do

587
00:29:05,679 --> 00:29:09,200
you can make me into something special

588
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:10,799
you better marry me everybody else is

589
00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:14,320
going overseas i'll be the only guy left

590
00:29:17,919 --> 00:29:22,279
okay i have one more

591
00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:28,080
[Music]

592
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,159
a little more smile

593
00:29:30,159 --> 00:29:32,159
we were married on a saturday

594
00:29:32,159 --> 00:29:34,880
the church was our savior of golgotha in

595
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,240
detroit

596
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,240
and then everybody came to my parents

597
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,000
house

598
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,880
i must have been delirious but i paid

599
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,480
700

600
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,480
for the bridal gown unveil it's a nice

601
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,799
smile now everybody here we go

602
00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:53,720
here we go a nice smile thank you

603
00:29:56,010 --> 00:29:59,190
[Applause]

604
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,679
it was a polish wedding and it lasted

605
00:30:01,679 --> 00:30:03,039
for days

606
00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:05,200
we decided to hire help so that all of

607
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,640
us could be free for the dancing and

608
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,840
mingling with the guests

609
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,679
i wanted it to be the best time eddie

610
00:30:13,679 --> 00:30:16,000
ever had he could forget about prison

611
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,039
and

612
00:30:17,039 --> 00:30:19,200
digging ditches and start thinking of

613
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,360
himself as a married man with friends

614
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,020
and responsibilities

615
00:30:24,020 --> 00:30:27,160
[Music]

616
00:30:30,470 --> 00:30:35,579
[Applause]

617
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:43,540
[Laughter]

618
00:30:44,350 --> 00:30:57,890
[Applause]

619
00:30:59,310 --> 00:31:01,030
[Music]

620
00:31:01,030 --> 00:31:07,930
[Applause]

621
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,880
[Music]

622
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,880
left

623
00:31:33,330 --> 00:31:40,059
[Applause]

624
00:31:40,159 --> 00:31:43,159
ah

625
00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:01,660
many many years together

626
00:32:01,660 --> 00:32:02,560
[Applause]

627
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:21,200
[Music]

628
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,480
he promised to bring me roses

629
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,000
and he asked me to make him a success

630
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,960
i told him i would

631
00:32:36,399 --> 00:32:38,399
in the papers it said that the american

632
00:32:38,399 --> 00:32:40,240
army was beginning the invasion of north

633
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,960
africa but that was somebody else's

634
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,960
world

635
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,360
we went to the movies a lot that first

636
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,360
year we had a basement apartment and the

637
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,679
picture show was a way to get out

638
00:33:05,679 --> 00:33:07,279
and that's mostly how we learned about

639
00:33:07,279 --> 00:33:08,240
the war

640
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,720
in the newsreels wasn't very important

641
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:11,760
to us

642
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:16,200
but we had other things to worry about

643
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,960
hmm

644
00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:42,399
eddie what are you doing

645
00:33:42,399 --> 00:33:44,720
nothing go back to sleep i can't sleep i

646
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,640
haven't i haven't slept all night i'm

647
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,080
just going out for samara don't worry

648
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,919
it's 2 30 in the morning maybe i'll get

649
00:33:53,919 --> 00:33:56,320
me a beer

650
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:57,679
i have five dollars in my pocket you

651
00:33:57,679 --> 00:33:59,840
seen it you haven't said a word all day

652
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,519
why don't you tell me what's bothering

653
00:34:01,519 --> 00:34:03,279
you nothing's bothering me that's not

654
00:34:03,279 --> 00:34:06,320
true sin nothing's bothering me

655
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,159
and you're pregnant okay

656
00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:09,520
you're gonna have a baby in six months

657
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,040
i'm bringing home forty dollars a week

658
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:12,320
forty dollars

659
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:13,760
a lot of people have homes other people

660
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,359
have money in the bank i don't know

661
00:34:15,359 --> 00:34:16,960
nothing all i want is five dollars so i

662
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,399
can go and buy myself a beer now where's

663
00:34:18,399 --> 00:34:19,918
my money did you take it what do you

664
00:34:19,918 --> 00:34:21,440
mean did i take it i'll bet you did

665
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,760
didn't you

666
00:34:24,399 --> 00:34:26,320
there was some

667
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:27,359
look at this

668
00:34:27,359 --> 00:34:29,440
eddie stop eddying me will you look at

669
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,000
all this money you got 30 30 bucks here

670
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,280
boy you really take charge of the dough

671
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:34,639
don't you well you asked me to take

672
00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:36,239
charge of it what am i supposed to do i

673
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:37,119
don't know what you're supposed to do

674
00:34:37,119 --> 00:34:38,399
but i sure as hell know what you do dude

675
00:34:38,399 --> 00:34:39,839
what what what does that mean what do i

676
00:34:39,839 --> 00:34:41,040
do it means you got all the money all

677
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,639
the time you make all the payments i

678
00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:44,159
don't even see any of it i work hard for

679
00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:45,119
my share but i never see it cause you

680
00:34:45,119 --> 00:34:46,639
got it socked away someplace you don't

681
00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:47,760
give a damn about me you don't give a

682
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:48,879
damn about anything as long as you got

683
00:34:48,879 --> 00:34:50,719
control of that

684
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,399
i don't i don't give a damn about you

685
00:34:52,399 --> 00:34:54,000
all i care about is money is that right

686
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,199
money that's all i care about well

687
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:56,800
there's how much i love money right

688
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:57,680
there

689
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,680
fair

690
00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:17,900
i'm sorry mommy

691
00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:20,000
[Music]

692
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,720
i'm sorry

693
00:35:29,359 --> 00:35:31,040
are you all right

694
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,200
yeah

695
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,760
i just get so discouraged sometimes

696
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,760
all i want is a house and a car is that

697
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,480
asking so much

698
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,359
just takes time eddie it just takes time

699
00:35:55,359 --> 00:35:57,839
we'll get the things we want took my

700
00:35:57,839 --> 00:35:58,880
parents

701
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,280
forever

702
00:36:02,079 --> 00:36:04,640
well sometimes i wish i was back in jail

703
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,720
eddie oh that way you meet a guy who

704
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:07,760
could give you the things you really

705
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,000
need

706
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,960
you give me everything i needed

707
00:36:16,079 --> 00:36:19,079
really

708
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,560
you sure you're all right

709
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,200
yeah i'm all right

710
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:45,910
let's go back to bed okay

711
00:36:45,910 --> 00:36:49,000
[Applause]

712
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,480
oh

713
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,560
what's the matter

714
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,320
we've got to find the serial numbers on

715
00:36:58,320 --> 00:36:59,839
these

716
00:36:59,839 --> 00:37:00,960
oh

717
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,560
what four

718
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,720
so we can send them back and get new

719
00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:05,760
ones

720
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,119
you mean they're still good mm-hmm

721
00:37:09,119 --> 00:37:11,040
how do you know

722
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,000
i'm a bookkeeper

723
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,240
yeah all the time

724
00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:17,599
huh

725
00:37:17,599 --> 00:37:19,359
you'll paste that together and go get a

726
00:37:19,359 --> 00:37:22,359
beer

727
00:37:23,380 --> 00:37:27,360
[Applause]

728
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,760
he used to say that if only we had money

729
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,680
everything would be perfect

730
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,599
there was the rent in the car payments

731
00:37:35,599 --> 00:37:37,920
and paying off the bedroom suite

732
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,000
but somehow or other he always managed

733
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,880
to buy me things little presents

734
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:47,119
jewelry sometimes or cosmetics

735
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,200
i lost the baby a miscarriage

736
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,960
but we knew that there was plenty of

737
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,490
time to try again

738
00:37:56,490 --> 00:38:00,230
[Music]

739
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,760
eddie

740
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:08,640
what

741
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,400
oh he's already going home what are you

742
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:11,520
doing here

743
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:12,960
how does a dollar forty an hour sound

744
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,040
dude what dollar forty nine how does it

745
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,680
sound to you well it's

746
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,359
you talking about signed sealed and

747
00:38:19,359 --> 00:38:20,960
delivered i went over to the soto plant

748
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,800
this morning that's why you got all

749
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,640
dressed up you thought i was obviously

750
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,880
some girl in you i don't know the last

751
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,400
time i saw you in a suit the time was

752
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,640
the day we got married

753
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,240
oh mommy it was great you should have

754
00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:33,680
seen me i walked in the personnel

755
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,520
manager's office and i said sir

756
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,119
how would you like to have an xjl bird

757
00:38:37,119 --> 00:38:39,040
working on your payroll you didn't i did

758
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,280
so i said sir my wife makes the best

759
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:42,560
spare ribs in sauerkraut in all of

760
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,400
dearborn michigan and if you want to be

761
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:45,680
invited over to our house at least two

762
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,599
or three times a week you better come up

763
00:38:47,599 --> 00:38:50,720
with a job and for big money

764
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,480
you're crazy

765
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,800
oh mommy my head was spinning there was

766
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,320
a job open for a shipping clerk at a

767
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,560
[ __ ] 40 an hour and he actually gave it

768
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,800
to me

769
00:39:03,530 --> 00:39:06,649
[Applause]

770
00:39:16,079 --> 00:39:19,200
up and out of moving day

771
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,640
happy anniversary

772
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,680
you too

773
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:28,480
our first anniversary was very special

774
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,560
we just rented a new house the upstairs

775
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,240
of a duplex and that was the morning we

776
00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:34,880
were moving in

777
00:39:35,839 --> 00:39:37,040
honey

778
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,440
truck's coming

779
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,640
just always be careful taking it up will

780
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,880
you we still don't own this stuff yet

781
00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,160
nothing got broke did it no

782
00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:04,079
don't worry honey

783
00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:06,160
i gave mortars not to scratch anything

784
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:07,280
you take care of everything up there

785
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:11,079
i'll keep an eye out down here

786
00:40:11,839 --> 00:40:13,920
welcome to the neighborhood

787
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,520
thanks

788
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,200
you live around here yeah that's me

789
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,440
right smack across the street

790
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,160
george rollins hi eddie slovik that's my

791
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,960
wife up there her name's antoinette

792
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,880
yeah i've got you both on my list

793
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,119
what list well it's not quite as bad as

794
00:40:29,119 --> 00:40:31,119
it sounds i'm the civil defense ward in

795
00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:33,920
this sector oh yeah i'll be uh

796
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:35,680
pestering you about blackout curtains as

797
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,119
soon as you get settled in yeah sure

798
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:39,839
we'll put them up

799
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,800
i suppose you uh heard the radio today

800
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,560
no we've been kind of busy oh they're

801
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,640
starting to bomb the hell out of germany

802
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,560
oh yeah about time don't you think yeah

803
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,079
sure yeah nice is on his way to the

804
00:40:50,079 --> 00:40:51,440
philippines

805
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,359
won't be long now no i'll give it about

806
00:40:53,359 --> 00:40:54,400
six months

807
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,640
yeah i guess so okay thanks i'll get the

808
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,640
door

809
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,119
not much of a first anniversary dinner

810
00:41:21,119 --> 00:41:24,319
i'm afraid it's okay

811
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:25,680
i'll take y'all for dinner tomorrow

812
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,119
night we'll go down the next okay

813
00:41:29,359 --> 00:41:30,240
oh

814
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:34,000
i can't move

815
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,680
me either

816
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,300
my legs are asleep oh

817
00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:38,560
[Music]

818
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,080
at least we're almost finished

819
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,359
[Music]

820
00:41:43,359 --> 00:41:45,119
isn't the living room furniture

821
00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:48,319
beautiful it's terrific

822
00:41:48,319 --> 00:41:50,640
oh i just love it it's

823
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,440
all blonde and new

824
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,280
it's what we wanted isn't it mommy um

825
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,119
the eggs are really swell

826
00:42:03,119 --> 00:42:04,720
your tongue isn't working because i

827
00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:07,760
think i burned them uh-uh hello

828
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,720
in here margaret hi sis the door was

829
00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:12,400
open and i brought the mail how do you

830
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,640
like the

831
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:15,640
love place

832
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,520
and you're all unpacked let me show you

833
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,760
around no sit still you both look like

834
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,400
you're ready to drop

835
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,200
some coffee fine

836
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,359
you gotta tell the post office about

837
00:42:29,359 --> 00:42:30,400
your new address

838
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:31,920
okay

839
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:33,599
i cannot get over what you two have done

840
00:42:33,599 --> 00:42:35,680
with this place you just use sugar don't

841
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,000
you just create a bag

842
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,359
and there's a front sun porch where

843
00:42:39,359 --> 00:42:41,920
eddie can feed his pigeons

844
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,760
and in the daylight you should see the

845
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,520
light that floods this place oh

846
00:42:48,319 --> 00:42:51,200
eddie what's wrong

847
00:42:57,359 --> 00:43:00,319
but that's impossible

848
00:43:00,319 --> 00:43:02,800
they told us that what is it

849
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,200
it's from his draft board

850
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,040
they've changed his classification to

851
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,560
one a he's to report for a fascicle for

852
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,560
f

853
00:43:14,079 --> 00:43:15,839
wouldn't you know it

854
00:43:15,839 --> 00:43:16,880
i mean wouldn't you just know that pick

855
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,119
a time like this

856
00:43:19,119 --> 00:43:20,319
year and a half ago when i got out of

857
00:43:20,319 --> 00:43:21,440
jail i didn't have nothing they wouldn't

858
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,680
touch me with a 10-foot pole

859
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,040
now when i'm a married man i got all of

860
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:26,319
this now i want me to go in the army

861
00:43:26,319 --> 00:43:28,319
wouldn't you just know it

862
00:43:28,319 --> 00:43:30,560
it's it's it's got to be a mistake i'll

863
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,480
call the draft board tomorrow i'll go

864
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,040
down there

865
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:42,079
mommy i'm lost without you

866
00:43:42,079 --> 00:43:43,599
i think i'm going to have a lot of

867
00:43:43,599 --> 00:43:44,720
trouble

868
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:47,920
army life doesn't agree with me

869
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,720
i just arrived in camp walters

870
00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:52,960
the name of the town we are near

871
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,680
is mineral wells texas

872
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,920
you can find it on the map and you'll

873
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,680
see just how far i am from you

874
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:03,680
everybody has to have

875
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,640
17 weeks of infantry

876
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,440
that's what we call basic training

877
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,839
the fellas are all razzing me

878
00:44:11,839 --> 00:44:14,079
because i write you so much

879
00:44:14,079 --> 00:44:16,079
this is the third letter i have written

880
00:44:16,079 --> 00:44:18,079
you today

881
00:44:18,079 --> 00:44:20,400
it's the only way i can feel close to

882
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:21,760
you

883
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,560
i haven't got anybody to warm their feet

884
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,480
when i get in bed

885
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,960
remember darling how close we used to

886
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,119
sleep together

887
00:44:31,119 --> 00:44:34,640
if anything happens to you i'll go awol

888
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,480
and that's just what i feel i'm doing

889
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,560
now

890
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,720
this army life doesn't give you time to

891
00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:43,359
do anything for yourself

892
00:44:43,359 --> 00:44:46,400
you have to be on the jump all the time

893
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,160
you know what i feel like doing don't

894
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:49,359
you

895
00:44:49,359 --> 00:44:51,599
i don't have to tell you

896
00:44:51,599 --> 00:44:54,560
but i'll try my best

897
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,599
today we were out for reveille

898
00:44:57,599 --> 00:44:59,920
the band was out there too

899
00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:02,319
we had to salute the flags

900
00:45:02,319 --> 00:45:06,000
it was swell i wish you was here to see

901
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:06,720
it

902
00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:08,800
when i think of all the times we had

903
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,560
together mommy

904
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,800
it makes me mad

905
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,440
i can't understand why they did this to

906
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:16,880
us

907
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,240
i miss your homemade cakes and pies

908
00:45:20,240 --> 00:45:22,319
and i miss the fruit you always had on

909
00:45:22,319 --> 00:45:23,839
the dish for me

910
00:45:23,839 --> 00:45:26,400
i miss the good coffee you make and most

911
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:27,440
of all

912
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,640
i miss sleeping with you

913
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,079
now you gentlemen

914
00:45:36,079 --> 00:45:38,560
are the lowest

915
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,520
your replacements

916
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,960
you'll be trained with one group

917
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,200
shipped with another

918
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,240
assigned to a replacement depot

919
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:51,760
and then you'll be led to the front one

920
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,400
night and told to dig in

921
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,160
you won't even know the names of the men

922
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,319
beside you now most of you don't think

923
00:45:58,319 --> 00:46:00,880
you should be here

924
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,160
you figure you're the bottom of the

925
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,400
barrel

926
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:05,680
well

927
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,280
the heat's on

928
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,400
the army needs warm bodies now

929
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,000
and even the bottom of the barrel looks

930
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,560
good

931
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,119
and i'll tell you something

932
00:46:17,119 --> 00:46:19,920
you're gonna be damn gun soldiers

933
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,640
you know why

934
00:46:24,079 --> 00:46:26,720
because i'm gonna kick ass

935
00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:29,119
from dawn to taps daylight to dark day

936
00:46:29,119 --> 00:46:31,839
in and day out

937
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,079
we understand each other

938
00:46:38,079 --> 00:46:40,160
good old sarge since it's in the rain

939
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,480
and tells us what a bunch of crud we are

940
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,079
listen to donna drafting three-year-old

941
00:46:44,079 --> 00:46:46,160
midgets now hey they're not examining

942
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:47,839
eyes anymore they're just counting them

943
00:46:47,839 --> 00:46:49,280
how does it feel being the bottom of the

944
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:50,160
barrel

945
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:51,440
you know something i could have beat it

946
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:52,800
oh yeah you could have kissed the doctor

947
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:54,480
huh no i ain't kidding i still had six

948
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,119
months probation time left so what so

949
00:46:57,119 --> 00:46:58,480
one parole violation that's all i

950
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,319
would've took i could've got picked up

951
00:47:00,319 --> 00:47:01,760
for driving without a license of being

952
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,200
drunk and disturbing the peace anything

953
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:04,000
that would have sent me back to the

954
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,920
reformatory for six months

955
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,480
damn you you could have beaten me

956
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,090
yeah i know

957
00:47:10,090 --> 00:47:13,300
[Music]

958
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,640
so

959
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,119
every time i shoot my rifle

960
00:47:41,119 --> 00:47:45,040
it jumps and kicks me in the cheek

961
00:47:45,359 --> 00:47:47,839
my score is pretty bad

962
00:47:47,839 --> 00:47:50,400
i don't think i'll make it

963
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:54,000
you don't mind if my score is bad do you

964
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,359
you'll still love me won't you

965
00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:04,720
another bolo slovic

966
00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:07,359
well i'm ready to peace downrange son

967
00:48:07,359 --> 00:48:08,319
yes sir

968
00:48:08,319 --> 00:48:09,440
sergeant

969
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,200
yes

970
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:12,400
uh

971
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,559
i think it's this uh damn windage thing

972
00:48:14,559 --> 00:48:18,839
i i can't seem to get the hang of it

973
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:22,240
well you'll have to come back and fire

974
00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:24,800
again on sunday

975
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,079
one way or another you're going to be a

976
00:48:26,079 --> 00:48:27,920
marksman

977
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:31,079
yes sir

978
00:49:01,599 --> 00:49:04,160
i finally made it honey

979
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,319
you know how

980
00:49:06,319 --> 00:49:09,119
i cheated

981
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,480
i was down to see the co this morning

982
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,480
about a discharge

983
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,800
he's a pretty nice guy

984
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,200
but he said he couldn't do anything

985
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:22,720
until he had

986
00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:23,760
three

987
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:28,920
affidavits and a red cross report

988
00:49:31,839 --> 00:49:34,079
it's up to you mommy

989
00:49:34,079 --> 00:49:35,760
go see them

990
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,240
maybe you can get me out i'm sorry mrs

991
00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:40,240
slovik there's nothing we can do

992
00:49:40,240 --> 00:49:42,079
but he's entitled to dependency

993
00:49:42,079 --> 00:49:44,240
discharge his commanding officer told

994
00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:46,319
him if he just got the right papers i'm

995
00:49:46,319 --> 00:49:49,520
afraid it's not that simple

996
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,800
do you need more i can get more

997
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,800
but how many letters from doctors do you

998
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,720
need

999
00:49:56,720 --> 00:49:58,559
i've been sick i've not been able to

1000
00:49:58,559 --> 00:50:00,640
work

1001
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:04,880
my eyesight uh has been going on me and

1002
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,880
it's all in there

1003
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:12,240
shall i have them call you

1004
00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:16,559
mrs slovik excuse me i have a um

1005
00:50:16,559 --> 00:50:19,040
i have a history of epileptic attacks if

1006
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,200
i could go back to work

1007
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:22,800
i would

1008
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:23,760
but

1009
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:25,760
but how can i live on eddie's 55 dollars

1010
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:28,240
a month i'm sure it's difficult for you

1011
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:29,920
but this is war time and we all have to

1012
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,920
make sacrifices

1013
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:33,599
i suggest you cut down on your rent

1014
00:50:33,599 --> 00:50:34,640
payments

1015
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:35,599
you'll have more money from the

1016
00:50:35,599 --> 00:50:38,000
allotment for food but then i'd i'd have

1017
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,280
to move

1018
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,920
perhaps that's not a bad idea

1019
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,119
you could

1020
00:50:43,119 --> 00:50:44,880
sell off some of your furniture and take

1021
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,359
a single room or else move in with your

1022
00:50:47,359 --> 00:50:48,480
family

1023
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,480
or your in-laws

1024
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,240
but what would my husband have to come

1025
00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:53,440
home to

1026
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,200
you can imagine what this apartment

1027
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,359
means to him he was in prison for five

1028
00:50:57,359 --> 00:50:59,680
years he's never had a home before i'm

1029
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,160
sorry mrs slovik really but there's

1030
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,880
nothing i can do

1031
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,079
mr slovik

1032
00:51:20,559 --> 00:51:23,839
are you all right

1033
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,920
you sure you're all right

1034
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:29,440
yeah well i get so mad at you sometimes

1035
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:30,319
because i know you don't tell me

1036
00:51:30,319 --> 00:51:32,720
everything

1037
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,200
uh-huh

1038
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:38,640
okay

1039
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,800
well what about the draft board i tried

1040
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,520
them and the social welfare and i even

1041
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,880
went back to the red cross

1042
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:48,880
i don't think it's going to work eddie

1043
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:50,160
well there's got to be somebody we can

1044
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,319
go to

1045
00:51:52,319 --> 00:51:53,440
if i don't get out soon they're going to

1046
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:54,880
ship me overseas you know what'll happen

1047
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:56,240
then though

1048
00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:57,520
i'll get killed over there and you marry

1049
00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,760
somebody else eddie don't

1050
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:01,599
judge back in jail

1051
00:52:01,599 --> 00:52:04,880
i said i wish i was back in jack

1052
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:08,240
you'll be home on furlough soon

1053
00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:11,359
i'll make you feel better

1054
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,880
i promise

1055
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:16,319
well i already miss you too you know

1056
00:52:16,319 --> 00:52:19,319
that

1057
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,880
i love you so much

1058
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,200
all the other guys have gone home on

1059
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:30,880
furlough

1060
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,400
i don't know why they're holding me here

1061
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,760
maybe they're processing my discharge

1062
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,000
i sure hope so

1063
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:41,920
all i know mommy

1064
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,400
is that ever since i was born

1065
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,640
i've had hard luck

1066
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,599
then i lived 15 months with my darling

1067
00:52:49,599 --> 00:52:50,640
wife

1068
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,839
and was so happy with her

1069
00:52:53,839 --> 00:52:56,240
now they break up my happiness

1070
00:52:56,240 --> 00:52:58,559
and try to kill us both

1071
00:52:58,559 --> 00:53:02,079
and take everything we got

1072
00:53:02,079 --> 00:53:04,720
why don't they leave us alone

1073
00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:08,000
we didn't do anything to anybody

1074
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,400
did we

1075
00:53:11,119 --> 00:53:12,839
eddie came home in

1076
00:53:12,839 --> 00:53:17,200
july we had 12 days together

1077
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,839
eddie

1078
00:53:19,839 --> 00:53:22,160
come on

1079
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:28,040
that's a boy that's a boy

1080
00:53:28,079 --> 00:53:30,240
on

1081
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:33,510
come on

1082
00:53:33,510 --> 00:53:36,579
[Music]

1083
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:49,280
there's a whole new generation of birds

1084
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,680
how can you tell

1085
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,160
i just can

1086
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:55,520
i haven't seen any of the old ones all

1087
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:56,800
morning

1088
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,200
come on

1089
00:54:01,839 --> 00:54:06,119
after i go you keep feeding him okay

1090
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:14,960
i hadn't worked since february so i

1091
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,200
pawned some rings for movie tickets and

1092
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,119
dinners

1093
00:54:19,119 --> 00:54:20,240
and eddie

1094
00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:21,760
worked a little in the plumbing shop in

1095
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,760
order to make some money

1096
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,160
and the rest of the time we just stayed

1097
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,400
with each other

1098
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,280
didn't even talk much

1099
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:33,119
the next morning he left for fort meade

1100
00:54:33,119 --> 00:54:35,440
maryland

1101
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:39,280
i never saw him again

1102
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:40,880
they told me that he died under

1103
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,630
dishonorable circumstances

1104
00:54:43,630 --> 00:54:44,880
[Applause]

1105
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:46,559
but i didn't know till 8 years later

1106
00:54:46,559 --> 00:54:50,200
that they killed him

1107
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,640
i met eddie slovick at camp kilmer

1108
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:58,319
and we were both poli so i guess it was

1109
00:54:58,319 --> 00:55:01,580
only natural we paired off

1110
00:55:01,580 --> 00:55:04,640
[Music]

1111
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,330
what the hell's going on

1112
00:55:06,330 --> 00:55:09,730
[Music]

1113
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:11,520
hey slovic they're gonna blow us out of

1114
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:12,880
the water and you're writing a letter ah

1115
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:14,160
they ain't gonna hit us we're zig

1116
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:15,920
zagging can you tell yeah we can tell

1117
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:17,760
slovik and sucking a meter who's firing

1118
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,440
at us well ain't much we can do about it

1119
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:26,799
[Music]

1120
00:55:26,799 --> 00:55:28,799
i thought he was a swell guy and he

1121
00:55:28,799 --> 00:55:31,040
never talked about desserting

1122
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:32,640
and he sure didn't ever seem to me like

1123
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,640
somebody that was yellow eddie was

1124
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,720
pretty much like the rest of us

1125
00:55:36,720 --> 00:55:38,640
he griped about being drafted but so did

1126
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:41,119
a lot of guys

1127
00:55:41,119 --> 00:55:42,559
the only thing that worried me was

1128
00:55:42,559 --> 00:55:44,559
something he said one day

1129
00:55:44,559 --> 00:55:46,240
you know something jimmy

1130
00:55:46,240 --> 00:55:47,520
i don't know why i'm bothering to clean

1131
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,559
this thing i'm never gonna fire

1132
00:55:50,559 --> 00:55:52,640
yeah you don't know what you're gonna do

1133
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:53,920
but you watch yourself you can get in

1134
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,240
trouble that way

1135
00:55:56,240 --> 00:56:00,040
we borrow a patch from

1136
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:07,920
we had come from scotland and england to

1137
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:09,520
omaha beach

1138
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,440
and now we were on our way to join g

1139
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:13,359
company in a little french town called l

1140
00:56:13,359 --> 00:56:14,720
booth

1141
00:56:14,720 --> 00:56:16,880
and we were finally in it now

1142
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:18,240
any of us

1143
00:56:18,240 --> 00:56:20,400
not germans we've been strafing hell out

1144
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,280
of the seventh army

1145
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,400
hey why the horses maybe they're short

1146
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:27,520
of gas

1147
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:29,119
has anybody heard anything about g

1148
00:56:29,119 --> 00:56:32,480
company don't ask why not part of the

1149
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,119
28th the ts division they took a lot of

1150
00:56:35,119 --> 00:56:37,280
casualties somebody at fellas told me

1151
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:38,400
they had three different commanding

1152
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,960
generals in 12 hours the hell you say i

1153
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:42,720
was pretty lucky aren't we well you're

1154
00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:45,119
luckier than those guys yeah

1155
00:56:45,119 --> 00:56:48,440
so far

1156
00:56:54,850 --> 00:56:59,460
[Music]

1157
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,119
under the truck take cover

1158
00:57:05,119 --> 00:57:08,000
get out of the truck

1159
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:10,799
what the hell do we do now sorry stick

1160
00:57:10,799 --> 00:57:12,400
together now stick together

1161
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:14,240
okay we've gotta find our outfit how are

1162
00:57:14,240 --> 00:57:15,920
we gonna find ourselves

1163
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:18,319
come on

1164
00:57:19,599 --> 00:57:23,640
come on we're gonna get killed jimmy

1165
00:57:26,319 --> 00:57:30,440
come on let's get out of here

1166
00:57:36,810 --> 00:57:39,940
[Music]

1167
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:45,520
come on up the hill up here come on

1168
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,520
okay i'm okay

1169
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:51,839
hey

1170
00:57:51,839 --> 00:57:57,079
here's some caves come on come on

1171
00:58:15,599 --> 00:58:18,160
eddie and me never did find g company by

1172
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,559
midnight we ended up in some caves

1173
00:58:20,559 --> 00:58:22,000
and i tell you it was the worst night of

1174
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,000
my life listening to those shells going

1175
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:25,440
off and just lying there waiting for one

1176
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,920
to hit me

1177
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,119
i guess it really got daddy

1178
00:58:33,119 --> 00:58:34,720
maybe he made up his mind that night i

1179
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,319
don't know but after that first time i

1180
00:58:36,319 --> 00:58:37,680
think he finally decided that what's

1181
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,640
under fire was enough

1182
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:48,799
[Music]

1183
00:58:48,799 --> 00:58:50,400
well somehow while it was still dark

1184
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,400
mostly other guys moved off and found g

1185
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:53,599
company

1186
00:58:53,599 --> 00:58:55,200
and me and slovick were the only ones

1187
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,280
left

1188
00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:59,520
i guess if you go by the book

1189
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:02,839
we were deserters

1190
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:16,799
hey

1191
00:59:16,799 --> 00:59:20,799
oh it's okay we're americans

1192
00:59:21,599 --> 00:59:24,079
slovak

1193
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:26,079
eddie eddie hey

1194
00:59:26,079 --> 00:59:26,880
hey

1195
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:28,319
hey come on come on there's canadians

1196
00:59:28,319 --> 00:59:30,960
out here come

1197
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,240
oh on you guys good to see you good to

1198
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:36,160
see you we're with the 109th infantry

1199
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:37,599
the 28th division we're looking for g

1200
00:59:37,599 --> 00:59:39,359
company we got separated under under

1201
00:59:39,359 --> 00:59:41,200
fire last night yeah we're from the 13th

1202
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:42,960
provo yeah come on down and have some

1203
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:45,520
coffee okay stop it do you want a cup of

1204
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:47,839
coffee

1205
00:59:50,319 --> 00:59:52,640
hey hey how are you

1206
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,319
doing

1207
00:59:54,319 --> 00:59:57,040
hey phoenix

1208
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,599
the canadians kind of adopted us

1209
00:59:59,599 --> 01:00:01,520
we were with them for 45 days and their

1210
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:03,520
job was to follow combat troops and post

1211
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:05,040
notices explaining the provisions of

1212
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:07,760
martial law

1213
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:10,079
we helped them out with kp and found

1214
01:00:10,079 --> 01:00:11,440
food for them i guess we were their

1215
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:15,319
mascots for a while

1216
01:00:21,119 --> 01:00:22,559
come on now you can do it i know you can

1217
01:00:22,559 --> 01:00:24,720
do it it's like a triplet it's like that

1218
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,640
that that that

1219
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:28,880
that

1220
01:00:35,599 --> 01:00:38,079
we were all over the place kalei balone

1221
01:00:38,079 --> 01:00:40,240
and then into belgium

1222
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:41,920
but we weren't awol as far as we were

1223
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:43,040
concerned

1224
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:44,880
we kept sending letters and radiograms

1225
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,390
to the 109th

1226
01:00:47,390 --> 01:00:50,550
[Applause]

1227
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:53,839
okay

1228
01:00:53,839 --> 01:00:55,280
we'll get the sergeant major to put his

1229
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:56,640
john hancock on this and we'll send it

1230
01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:59,920
right out you throw my name right

1231
01:00:59,920 --> 01:01:01,200
how many times do i have to tell you i

1232
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:02,799
spell your name right well let's people

1233
01:01:02,799 --> 01:01:04,720
spell it a case that i can't why could i

1234
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,440
k let me see

1235
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:10,110
okay

1236
01:01:10,110 --> 01:01:11,680
[Applause]

1237
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:12,960
not that it matters half the time i

1238
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:15,040
don't think they're getting these things

1239
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:17,599
yeah we'll catch up with

1240
01:01:17,599 --> 01:01:19,040
yeah lots of guys are separated from

1241
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:21,040
their outfits besides we're helping out

1242
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:24,040
here

1243
01:01:24,079 --> 01:01:26,160
supposed to be killing germans already

1244
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:29,760
nobody's signed us to permanent kp

1245
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:32,079
hey jimmy you got yesterday

1246
01:01:32,079 --> 01:01:35,319
oh yeah

1247
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:41,920
all the letters you're at home i guess

1248
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:45,200
you need all the paper you can get

1249
01:01:48,799 --> 01:01:50,799
what are you doing

1250
01:01:50,799 --> 01:01:52,640
what happy ammo

1251
01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:54,620
i got rid of it

1252
01:01:54,620 --> 01:01:56,799
[Applause]

1253
01:01:56,799 --> 01:01:58,480
you got what

1254
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:01,200
i just got rid of him

1255
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:04,319
you just got rid of it

1256
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:06,480
i suppose we get pinned down you're

1257
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,680
gonna shoot paper wads adam

1258
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:11,670
i ain't gonna shoot at all

1259
01:02:11,670 --> 01:02:14,829
[Applause]

1260
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,440
okay

1261
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,520
everything was fine except for the food

1262
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:35,920
it was bully beef all the time

1263
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:38,000
so eddie and me being good polox well we

1264
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:39,520
decided we'd make the canadian some

1265
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:41,359
potato pancakes

1266
01:02:41,359 --> 01:02:43,119
trouble was nobody in france ever heard

1267
01:02:43,119 --> 01:02:46,760
of a potato grater

1268
01:02:49,010 --> 01:02:52,640
[Applause]

1269
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:53,680
uh they probably don't have one around

1270
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:55,760
here anyway back to building dog gone it

1271
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:57,119
now wait a minute and they may not have

1272
01:02:57,119 --> 01:02:58,240
a potato grater but they sure as hell

1273
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:02,039
got a coffee can uh

1274
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:03,920
get a hammer nail meet me in the kitchen

1275
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:05,520
get a wife hammer the nail meet me in

1276
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:09,480
the kitchen remember to nail

1277
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:19,200
[Music]

1278
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:22,240
give me that bomb there

1279
01:03:27,119 --> 01:03:30,359
all right

1280
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:36,720
potato grater

1281
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:38,000
by the time the war is over we'll have

1282
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,480
enough to dig here

1283
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:52,400
can a man get some tea at this hour well

1284
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:57,079
no sir we do have coffee though

1285
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,480
what's that

1286
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:02,640
something new for chad you're gonna love

1287
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:04,720
it

1288
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,440
oh we're gonna miss you yes

1289
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:09,440
why are we going somewhere we finally

1290
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:11,440
got word from your outfit

1291
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:12,960
they want you to report to regimental

1292
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,520
headquarters

1293
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:20,319
wednesday

1294
01:04:20,319 --> 01:04:23,119
as soon as possible the report reads on

1295
01:04:23,119 --> 01:04:25,839
or about 7 october where to arrange your

1296
01:04:25,839 --> 01:04:29,119
transportation to rochroth

1297
01:04:30,799 --> 01:04:32,640
we've enjoyed having you with us but i'm

1298
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:33,920
sure you want to get back to your own

1299
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:36,160
people

1300
01:04:38,559 --> 01:04:42,000
yeah i guess it's about time isn't it

1301
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:50,160
well we better get started on this we

1302
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:53,880
want these ready for supper

1303
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,119
eddie was going back to the war

1304
01:04:59,119 --> 01:05:00,559
one thing that scared him the most but

1305
01:05:00,559 --> 01:05:01,839
he was still worried about making those

1306
01:05:01,839 --> 01:05:04,400
potato pancakes for his friends

1307
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:08,520
how can you shoot a guy like that

1308
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,319
we reported to regimental headquarters

1309
01:05:18,319 --> 01:05:20,319
we had been carried as missing or absent

1310
01:05:20,319 --> 01:05:22,480
without leave on the rolls but no

1311
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:24,720
charges have been filed they sent us on

1312
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:27,599
over to g company

1313
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:31,440
private speed deck and slovak reporting

1314
01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:34,599
for duty

1315
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:39,680
you boys were lost for a little while

1316
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:41,760
weren't you yes sir don't call me sir

1317
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:43,359
son call me sergeant haven't you learned

1318
01:05:43,359 --> 01:05:48,119
that yet yes sergeant right this way

1319
01:05:51,039 --> 01:05:52,559
now let me tell you something before you

1320
01:05:52,559 --> 01:05:54,720
see the captain a lot of you guys think

1321
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:56,799
the war is over it's not

1322
01:05:56,799 --> 01:05:58,880
but this outfit is just starting you

1323
01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:00,400
guys are green so if you listen to your

1324
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:01,839
buddies you might stay around for a

1325
01:06:01,839 --> 01:06:03,760
while but while you're breathing we

1326
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:05,760
expect you to soldier is that clear yes

1327
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:08,160
sergeant

1328
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:12,000
yes

1329
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:14,559
those two replacements are here sir

1330
01:06:14,559 --> 01:06:17,559
cinnamon

1331
01:06:21,119 --> 01:06:22,559
private speed deck and slovak reporting

1332
01:06:22,559 --> 01:06:25,760
for duty sir that is

1333
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:30,599
uh you minhead chow yes sir

1334
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:34,720
i uh i won't give you a pep talk i'll

1335
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:36,960
just say this is a good company

1336
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:38,480
all we expect is you get up on the line

1337
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:39,920
and kick hell out of the enemy so

1338
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:41,599
everybody can go home

1339
01:06:41,599 --> 01:06:42,880
i'm assigning you both to the fourth

1340
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:44,319
platoon the sergeant will turn you over

1341
01:06:44,319 --> 01:06:47,920
to your platoon leader dismissed

1342
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:51,680
uh

1343
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:53,359
excuse me sir

1344
01:06:53,359 --> 01:06:54,880
yes

1345
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:56,240
uh

1346
01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:59,039
i have something to tell you

1347
01:06:59,039 --> 01:07:01,039
uh

1348
01:07:01,039 --> 01:07:02,960
i'm too nervous and too scared to serve

1349
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:05,200
in a rifle company sir what

1350
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:06,559
i'd really appreciate it if i could be

1351
01:07:06,559 --> 01:07:10,280
kept in a rear area

1352
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:23,280
what's your name private slovak sir

1353
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:25,119
eddie slovik private slovak you will

1354
01:07:25,119 --> 01:07:26,960
report to the fourth platoon and i'll

1355
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,119
forget we had this conversation but i

1356
01:07:29,119 --> 01:07:31,599
wouldn't do a good job up there sir

1357
01:07:31,599 --> 01:07:33,039
i'm just too nervous

1358
01:07:33,039 --> 01:07:34,640
after we got pinned down all night at l

1359
01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:36,640
booth i don't think i can ever fire my

1360
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:40,039
rifle sir

1361
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:44,480
private this isn't easy for anybody

1362
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:46,319
especially the soldier in the field but

1363
01:07:46,319 --> 01:07:48,240
i can't make exceptions or give special

1364
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:49,839
treatment you know that

1365
01:07:49,839 --> 01:07:51,440
well

1366
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,760
i'll run away then sir

1367
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:55,280
private i'll have you place an arrest

1368
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:57,760
now report to your platoon hey eddie

1369
01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:00,480
come on let's go uh sir

1370
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,280
i uh we were with the canadians while

1371
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:04,400
the

1372
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:07,440
13th provost corps and uh

1373
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:09,039
the way i look at i was supposed to be

1374
01:08:09,039 --> 01:08:10,960
here see so

1375
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:13,200
can i be tried for being awol i don't

1376
01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:15,520
know i'd have to check into it

1377
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:17,198
well

1378
01:08:17,198 --> 01:08:19,279
if i leave now would it be desertion

1379
01:08:19,279 --> 01:08:22,158
absolutely

1380
01:08:22,158 --> 01:08:24,158
well i guess that's what i'm gonna have

1381
01:08:24,158 --> 01:08:26,879
to do sir

1382
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:28,799
private report to your platoon that's an

1383
01:08:28,799 --> 01:08:29,679
order

1384
01:08:29,679 --> 01:08:32,719
i'm sorry sir i can't

1385
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:34,880
soldier you better stop your buddy he's

1386
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:36,880
getting himself into serious trouble yes

1387
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:39,198
captain

1388
01:08:39,198 --> 01:08:40,479
eddie

1389
01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:42,158
eddie come on back you don't want to do

1390
01:08:42,158 --> 01:08:45,838
this i know what i'm doing jimmy eddie

1391
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:50,600
teddy come on back

1392
01:08:52,399 --> 01:08:55,439
that was the last time i saw him

1393
01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:57,359
a month later i got hit by shrapnel in

1394
01:08:57,359 --> 01:08:58,960
hertkin forest and they kept me in the

1395
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:00,319
hospital for

1396
01:09:00,319 --> 01:09:02,960
almost a year

1397
01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:05,279
it wasn't until 1953 that i found out

1398
01:09:05,279 --> 01:09:07,439
what happened to him

1399
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:09,920
you know i couldn't believe it

1400
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:11,600
even after all that time it made me sick

1401
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:15,000
for two days

1402
01:09:21,359 --> 01:09:23,120
i was the tail as a cook that day for

1403
01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:25,198
the military government attachment 112th

1404
01:09:25,198 --> 01:09:26,319
infantry

1405
01:09:26,319 --> 01:09:28,880
it was about 8 30 in the morning

1406
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:31,439
anyway this guy came up in the chow line

1407
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:32,560
looked at me like he spent the night

1408
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:34,799
sleeping out in the fields

1409
01:09:34,799 --> 01:09:37,199
morning

1410
01:09:41,759 --> 01:09:43,359
can i have some of these eggs

1411
01:09:43,359 --> 01:09:45,279
that's what they're there for

1412
01:09:45,279 --> 01:09:48,279
thanks

1413
01:09:53,609 --> 01:09:56,759
[Music]

1414
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:58,159
i'll give you hand cleaning up if you

1415
01:09:58,159 --> 01:10:00,000
want

1416
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:00,840
what

1417
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:02,880
for i don't know who looks like you can

1418
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:04,880
use some help can you

1419
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:08,239
yeah i guess so

1420
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:09,920
what's your name

1421
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:11,360
brockmayer

1422
01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:12,800
i'm slobby

1423
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:14,719
nice to meet you

1424
01:10:14,719 --> 01:10:17,360
can you do me a favor yeah

1425
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:21,400
will you give this to somebody for me

1426
01:10:30,159 --> 01:10:33,040
hey what'd you give this to me for

1427
01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:34,000
you know you give it to one of the

1428
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:37,040
officers you know what to do with it

1429
01:10:37,440 --> 01:10:38,480
look uh

1430
01:10:38,480 --> 01:10:39,840
sloping

1431
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:41,040
why don't you tear this up and go back

1432
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,600
to your unit

1433
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:46,880
i think you better give it to somebody

1434
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:52,640
you got to be crazy they'll put you in a

1435
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:56,760
stockade i know

1436
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:02,719
you

1437
01:11:02,719 --> 01:11:04,480
go get the lieutenant he's probably

1438
01:11:04,480 --> 01:11:07,199
signed in the morning report

1439
01:11:07,199 --> 01:11:09,920
on a double

1440
01:11:11,440 --> 01:11:12,400
i

1441
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:14,400
private eddie d slovak confessed to the

1442
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:18,000
desertion of the united states army

1443
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:19,520
at the time of my desertion we were at

1444
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:21,679
elbuf in france i came to albert as a

1445
01:11:21,679 --> 01:11:23,600
replacement they were shelling the town

1446
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:27,440
and we were told to dig in for the night

1447
01:11:27,440 --> 01:11:28,880
the following morning they were showing

1448
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:31,120
us again i was so scared and nervous and

1449
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:32,480
trembling

1450
01:11:32,480 --> 01:11:34,640
that at the time the other replacements

1451
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:38,239
moved out i couldn't move

1452
01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:40,880
i stayed there in that hole till it was

1453
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,920
quiet and i was able to move

1454
01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:45,920
the next morning i turned myself over to

1455
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:49,120
the canadian provo corps

1456
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:51,040
after this i told my commanding officer

1457
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:52,960
my story

1458
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:54,400
i said if i had to go out there again

1459
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:56,159
i'd run away he said there was nothing

1460
01:11:56,159 --> 01:11:58,800
he could do for me so i ran away again

1461
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:00,719
and i'll run away again

1462
01:12:00,719 --> 01:12:03,199
if i have to go out there

1463
01:12:03,199 --> 01:12:07,520
signed private eddie d slovik asn 368

1464
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:08,719
five

1465
01:12:08,719 --> 01:12:11,120
you slovak yes sir

1466
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:12,719
sure you want us to have this

1467
01:12:12,719 --> 01:12:14,640
yes sir

1468
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:16,719
you realize how damaging a written

1469
01:12:16,719 --> 01:12:18,480
confession can be

1470
01:12:18,480 --> 01:12:20,960
yes sir

1471
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:23,600
i'll tell you what

1472
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:24,800
why don't you take it back and destroy

1473
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:26,960
it

1474
01:12:27,120 --> 01:12:29,920
no sir i can't

1475
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:35,000
all right

1476
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:53,199
will you read this private yes sir

1477
01:12:55,199 --> 01:12:57,520
allowed

1478
01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:58,800
yes sir

1479
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:00,560
i have been told that this statement can

1480
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:02,880
be held against me and that i make it of

1481
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:05,120
my own free will and that i do not have

1482
01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:07,520
to make it

1483
01:13:08,159 --> 01:13:09,600
if you agree with that will you sign it

1484
01:13:09,600 --> 01:13:12,640
please yes sir

1485
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:15,679
lieutenant i think we should both

1486
01:13:15,679 --> 01:13:19,800
witness this yes sir

1487
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:24,080
sergeant

1488
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:27,040
put this man in custody

1489
01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:28,239
you'll be confined to the division

1490
01:13:28,239 --> 01:13:32,280
stockade thank you sir

1491
01:13:34,480 --> 01:13:36,400
slovak was transferred to the division

1492
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:38,640
stockade at rock germany that's where i

1493
01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:39,760
met him

1494
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:41,440
it wasn't much of a prison just an old

1495
01:13:41,440 --> 01:13:43,280
barn but it was easy duty and i didn't

1496
01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:46,280
mind

1497
01:13:46,719 --> 01:13:48,159
slovak was just one of those kids

1498
01:13:48,159 --> 01:13:49,679
bucking for a court-martial so he could

1499
01:13:49,679 --> 01:13:51,520
stay out of the line and we had our

1500
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:54,320
share of them he's a good-hearted kid do

1501
01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:56,320
anything i told him to

1502
01:13:56,320 --> 01:14:00,040
what you making sarge

1503
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:02,880
swagger stick

1504
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:07,199
boy i'd like to give me one of them

1505
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:09,760
well hell i'd give you this one

1506
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:11,280
but i don't imagine you'll be here that

1507
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:12,400
long

1508
01:14:12,400 --> 01:14:13,679
you mean i ain't coming back here after

1509
01:14:13,679 --> 01:14:14,880
my trial

1510
01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:18,000
depends on the sentence

1511
01:14:18,159 --> 01:14:20,000
yeah they might send you to the stockade

1512
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:23,440
in paris paris

1513
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:29,840
you kidding sarge

1514
01:14:31,199 --> 01:14:34,640
hey i'll bet that's ronnie coming back

1515
01:14:36,880 --> 01:14:40,840
come on manny ronnie's back

1516
01:14:54,480 --> 01:14:57,120
oh i settled for 20 years right now i

1517
01:14:57,120 --> 01:14:59,240
i bet you would slovak

1518
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:00,480
[Applause]

1519
01:15:00,480 --> 01:15:01,840
i don't even think i have to stay in

1520
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:03,360
after war's over

1521
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:04,880
maybe six months

1522
01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:08,320
uh six months like you lucky dog

1523
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:10,080
i remember the day slovak came back

1524
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:12,320
after his court-martial he wasn't so

1525
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:14,159
happy he and those kids around figured

1526
01:15:14,159 --> 01:15:16,080
he might be stuck in jail for two or

1527
01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:17,520
three years

1528
01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:19,440
of course it never occurred to him even

1529
01:15:19,440 --> 01:15:20,719
after he got the sentence that he'd

1530
01:15:20,719 --> 01:15:24,080
actually be shot

1531
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:25,920
darling

1532
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:27,040
i'm in

1533
01:15:27,040 --> 01:15:29,040
a little trouble

1534
01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:31,040
please don't worry

1535
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:32,480
about me

1536
01:15:32,480 --> 01:15:35,840
because i'm all right

1537
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:37,520
please mommy

1538
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:40,640
i beg you to wait for me

1539
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:42,480
i'll let you know

1540
01:15:42,480 --> 01:15:46,480
just as soon as i know how much i get

1541
01:15:46,480 --> 01:15:48,719
if it's too much

1542
01:15:48,719 --> 01:15:51,440
then i'll ask you

1543
01:15:51,440 --> 01:15:52,640
to get

1544
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:55,360
a divorce

1545
01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:05,280
i had him brought to see me

1546
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:07,040
it was an unusual case and i felt i

1547
01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:10,600
should talk to him

1548
01:16:20,159 --> 01:16:23,600
you're private slovak yes sir

1549
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:25,920
okay

1550
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:29,760
you know who i am

1551
01:16:29,760 --> 01:16:31,280
no sir i'm sorry

1552
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:32,960
i'm colonel leacock

1553
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:34,800
division judge your advocate

1554
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:37,120
yes sir

1555
01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:39,679
you like bird sir

1556
01:16:39,679 --> 01:16:40,640
yeah

1557
01:16:40,640 --> 01:16:42,960
me too

1558
01:16:47,199 --> 01:16:48,719
i'm sure you realize you're in a great

1559
01:16:48,719 --> 01:16:52,239
deal of trouble yes sir i know

1560
01:16:52,239 --> 01:16:54,080
well

1561
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:57,120
part of my job is to help you if i can

1562
01:16:57,120 --> 01:16:59,280
we don't like to court-martial anybody

1563
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:01,679
we do it only as a final resort

1564
01:17:01,679 --> 01:17:04,080
i understand sir

1565
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:05,760
maybe we can settle this without a trial

1566
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:07,360
huh

1567
01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:10,800
that would be nicer how

1568
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:16,640
if you go back to your outfit i'll ask

1569
01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:19,679
the general if you'll suspend action

1570
01:17:19,679 --> 01:17:21,199
i'll even try to get you a transfer to

1571
01:17:21,199 --> 01:17:22,400
another regiment where you can make a

1572
01:17:22,400 --> 01:17:24,080
clean start no sir i'm not going back up

1573
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:25,280
there in the front line i just can't

1574
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:28,320
serve in a rifle company

1575
01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:32,960
why don't you at least give it a try

1576
01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:45,040
you hmm even been with your outfit long

1577
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:46,640
enough to know what it's like

1578
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:49,040
i know what it's like sir

1579
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:50,400
i already said i'd be willing to take a

1580
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:51,920
job away from the line quartermaster

1581
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:53,600
company or something like that

1582
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:54,960
but if i can't then give me my court

1583
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:56,800
martial if we can transfer everybody out

1584
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:58,560
of a rifle company to a warehouse or a

1585
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:00,000
supply done just because they won't

1586
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:01,120
fight

1587
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:03,600
i know that

1588
01:18:04,380 --> 01:18:05,520
[Applause]

1589
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:07,679
you do realize you'll get at least a dd

1590
01:18:07,679 --> 01:18:09,280
and a heavy sentence to confinement if

1591
01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:10,960
you go to trial

1592
01:18:10,960 --> 01:18:13,840
yes sir

1593
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:16,239
you might even get a death sentence

1594
01:18:16,239 --> 01:18:18,000
desertion in time of war as a capital

1595
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:20,480
defense

1596
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:25,840
i'm afraid you're gonna make a big

1597
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:27,199
mistake if you don't go back up there

1598
01:18:27,199 --> 01:18:28,560
and try it again

1599
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:30,800
i'm sorry sir i already made up my mind

1600
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:33,920
i want my court marching

1601
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:37,840
okay

1602
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:40,239
take him back

1603
01:18:40,239 --> 01:18:42,960
thanks anyways

1604
01:18:47,280 --> 01:18:49,199
i wasn't particularly surprised by his

1605
01:18:49,199 --> 01:18:50,400
attitude

1606
01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:52,480
i had heard too many like him say i want

1607
01:18:52,480 --> 01:18:55,360
my quad marshal and why shouldn't they

1608
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:57,199
no american soldier had been shot for

1609
01:18:57,199 --> 01:19:00,640
desertion since the civil war

1610
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:06,840
the question is why did he do

1611
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:09,760
it i was one of the doctors who examined

1612
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:11,199
him

1613
01:19:11,199 --> 01:19:12,960
it wasn't my job to determine his

1614
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:14,640
motives but

1615
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:16,159
when you probe a man's body you

1616
01:19:16,159 --> 01:19:17,760
sometimes wish you could enter his mind

1617
01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:18,560
and

1618
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:21,520
i just couldn't help speculating

1619
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:23,679
i think he he desperately wanted to go

1620
01:19:23,679 --> 01:19:25,760
back to jail

1621
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:27,840
it was the the one place that had been a

1622
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:30,560
safe harbor for him a refuge

1623
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:32,640
it was almost a womb

1624
01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:34,400
and naturally there was a self-serving

1625
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:37,199
calculation involved but

1626
01:19:37,199 --> 01:19:38,800
in the final analysis he may have been

1627
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:40,320
telling the truth

1628
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:42,159
a truth that the military for its own

1629
01:19:42,159 --> 01:19:43,920
necessary reasons was compelled to

1630
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:45,760
ignore

1631
01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:47,520
perhaps he

1632
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:49,679
he was simply unable physically and

1633
01:19:49,679 --> 01:19:52,480
mentally to go back under fire

1634
01:19:52,480 --> 01:19:54,000
in my report i said he was in good

1635
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:55,040
health

1636
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:56,880
the division north psychiatrist also

1637
01:19:56,880 --> 01:19:58,320
filed a report

1638
01:19:58,320 --> 01:20:00,800
a much more important one

1639
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:03,199
he stated that the prisoner was sane

1640
01:20:03,199 --> 01:20:06,800
and responsible for his actions

1641
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:13,920
the general court martial in the slovak

1642
01:20:13,920 --> 01:20:15,679
case was one of the shortest such

1643
01:20:15,679 --> 01:20:17,840
proceedings in our history the court was

1644
01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:21,440
convened at 10 a.m november 11 1944 and

1645
01:20:21,440 --> 01:20:24,239
at 11 40 a.m the verdict had been

1646
01:20:24,239 --> 01:20:28,000
returned and the court adjourned

1647
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:31,199
i was presiding we were all staff men

1648
01:20:31,199 --> 01:20:33,520
not one of us was a combat officer

1649
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:35,440
there was a reason for this

1650
01:20:35,440 --> 01:20:37,280
every available combat officer in the

1651
01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:39,760
28th division was under fire some felt

1652
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:42,239
this would be helpful to the defendant

1653
01:20:42,239 --> 01:20:44,800
staff officers are likely to be more

1654
01:20:44,800 --> 01:20:46,960
lenient

1655
01:20:46,960 --> 01:20:48,960
lieutenant cramer as a law member would

1656
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,360
you inform the accused of his rights yes

1657
01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:53,520
sir

1658
01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:56,400
private slovak

1659
01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:59,840
a prisoner does not salute

1660
01:20:59,840 --> 01:21:01,120
slovak

1661
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:02,400
you have the right to challenge any

1662
01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:04,880
member of this court for cause

1663
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:06,560
you may also exercise the right to one

1664
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:08,239
preemptory challenge against any member

1665
01:21:08,239 --> 01:21:10,239
except the law member

1666
01:21:10,239 --> 01:21:12,080
you are charged with violating the 58th

1667
01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:13,920
article of war desertion to avoid

1668
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:16,159
hazardous duty the two specifications

1669
01:21:16,159 --> 01:21:18,000
are elbaf and rockarat

1670
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:20,080
how does the accused plead

1671
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:21,520
we plead not guilty to each of the

1672
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:23,199
specifications as well as the general

1673
01:21:23,199 --> 01:21:25,280
charge the court please prosecution will

1674
01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:26,840
call its first

1675
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:29,440
witness we heard from the commander of g

1676
01:21:29,440 --> 01:21:31,040
company

1677
01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:33,040
from an nco who was present at the elbow

1678
01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:34,320
faction

1679
01:21:34,320 --> 01:21:35,760
from the cook

1680
01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:38,400
and two other officers

1681
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:40,080
slovak's confession was admitted in

1682
01:21:40,080 --> 01:21:43,719
evidence without objection

1683
01:21:47,440 --> 01:21:48,960
accused understands his rights as a

1684
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:50,080
witness

1685
01:21:50,080 --> 01:21:52,560
but has elected to remain silent

1686
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:54,320
however defense requests that the law

1687
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:55,760
member advise the accused of his rights

1688
01:21:55,760 --> 01:21:57,360
as a witness

1689
01:21:57,360 --> 01:22:00,000
lieutenant

1690
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:03,679
private slovak

1691
01:22:03,679 --> 01:22:06,000
you have the legal right to one

1692
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:07,600
be swan as a witness and testify on your

1693
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:09,280
own behalf in which case you'll be

1694
01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:11,600
subject to cross-examination

1695
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:13,440
to make an unsworn statement either

1696
01:22:13,440 --> 01:22:14,800
written or oral on which you cannot be

1697
01:22:14,800 --> 01:22:17,360
cross-examined three remain silent

1698
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:19,040
in which case no inference of your guilt

1699
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:22,560
or innocence will be drawn by the court

1700
01:22:23,199 --> 01:22:25,520
take your time private confer with

1701
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:26,800
council

1702
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:30,080
decide what you want to do

1703
01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:33,520
did you understand all that eddie

1704
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:35,199
uh-huh

1705
01:22:35,199 --> 01:22:37,120
well

1706
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:40,480
i will remain silent

1707
01:22:43,199 --> 01:22:46,239
the defense rests

1708
01:22:50,719 --> 01:22:52,960
we found private slovak guilty of both

1709
01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:54,639
specifications

1710
01:22:54,639 --> 01:22:57,520
as well as the charge

1711
01:22:57,520 --> 01:22:59,199
another secret ballot was taken for the

1712
01:22:59,199 --> 01:23:01,520
senate

1713
01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:05,679
well it's unanimous gentlemen

1714
01:23:05,679 --> 01:23:07,840
death

1715
01:23:09,040 --> 01:23:11,840
if no one objects i suggest we

1716
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:14,400
stretch our legs have a cigarette and

1717
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:18,040
take a second ballot

1718
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:22,639
he had confessed

1719
01:23:22,639 --> 01:23:24,159
he'd run away from his duties as a

1720
01:23:24,159 --> 01:23:26,320
rifleman and he stated he would run away

1721
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:28,560
again

1722
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:30,320
given a division locked in bloody battle

1723
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:32,880
and taking heavy casualties

1724
01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:34,239
i don't think we had the right to let

1725
01:23:34,239 --> 01:23:36,960
him get away with

1726
01:23:37,120 --> 01:23:39,520
death

1727
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:41,760
death

1728
01:23:44,159 --> 01:23:46,639
gentlemen

1729
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:48,239
this is something we'll have to live

1730
01:23:48,239 --> 01:23:51,600
with for the rest of our lives

1731
01:23:52,239 --> 01:23:56,120
let's take a third ballot

1732
01:24:22,239 --> 01:24:25,600
again the third ballot was unanimous

1733
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:28,600
death

1734
01:24:32,159 --> 01:24:34,719
private eddie d slovic

1735
01:24:34,719 --> 01:24:36,960
these are the findings of this court

1736
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:39,520
of specification one of the charge

1737
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:41,520
guilty

1738
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:44,320
of specification two of the charge

1739
01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:46,639
guilty

1740
01:24:46,639 --> 01:24:48,560
of the charge

1741
01:24:48,560 --> 01:24:50,960
guilty

1742
01:24:50,960 --> 01:24:52,400
you are hereby sentenced to be

1743
01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:54,880
dishonorably discharged to forfeit all

1744
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,199
pay and allowances to you or to become

1745
01:24:57,199 --> 01:24:59,600
to you and to be shot to death with

1746
01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:02,239
musketry

1747
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:07,639
this court is now adjourned

1748
01:25:12,290 --> 01:25:12,930
[Applause]

1749
01:25:12,930 --> 01:25:15,600
[Music]

1750
01:25:15,600 --> 01:25:17,520
in all honesty i don't think a single

1751
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:19,120
member of the court actually believed

1752
01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:21,600
that slovak would ever be shot

1753
01:25:21,600 --> 01:25:23,920
i know i didn't believe it

1754
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:26,480
i had no reason to believe it i knew

1755
01:25:26,480 --> 01:25:28,159
what the practice had been

1756
01:25:28,159 --> 01:25:29,679
i thought that the sentence would be cut

1757
01:25:29,679 --> 01:25:30,960
down

1758
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:32,880
i don't say this is what i thought

1759
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:34,800
should happen

1760
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:36,960
i say it is what i felt sure would

1761
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:38,800
happen

1762
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:40,960
and i thought that after the war ended

1763
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:42,719
two or three years maybe

1764
01:25:42,719 --> 01:25:45,920
slovak would be a free man

1765
01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:49,520
december 9 1944

1766
01:25:49,520 --> 01:25:52,000
dear general eisenhower

1767
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:54,960
i led slovic was convicted by general

1768
01:25:54,960 --> 01:25:56,239
court-martial

1769
01:25:56,239 --> 01:25:59,199
to be shot to death for desertion

1770
01:25:59,199 --> 01:26:01,040
i have nothing against the united states

1771
01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:02,719
army whatsoever

1772
01:26:02,719 --> 01:26:04,639
i merely wanted to transfer from the

1773
01:26:04,639 --> 01:26:05,920
line

1774
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:08,560
i feared hazardous duty to myself

1775
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:10,639
and because of my nerves

1776
01:26:10,639 --> 01:26:13,360
i'll admit i have some awful bad nerves

1777
01:26:13,360 --> 01:26:17,120
which no doubt in my mind we all have

1778
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:18,800
as division judge advocate i was the

1779
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:22,560
first of the legal reviewing authorities

1780
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:24,239
the fbi furnished me with private

1781
01:26:24,239 --> 01:26:26,960
slovak's civilian criminal record

1782
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:28,560
it was one of the reasons why i did not

1783
01:26:28,560 --> 01:26:30,639
recommend clemency

1784
01:26:30,639 --> 01:26:32,639
general kota commander of the 28th

1785
01:26:32,639 --> 01:26:37,000
division approved the sentence

1786
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:39,679
i suppose i was the first to believe

1787
01:26:39,679 --> 01:26:41,600
he'd be shot

1788
01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:44,480
but if i hadn't signed if i'd let slovik

1789
01:26:44,480 --> 01:26:47,040
accomplish his purpose

1790
01:26:47,040 --> 01:26:48,719
then i don't know how i could have gone

1791
01:26:48,719 --> 01:26:50,560
up to the line and looked a good soldier

1792
01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:52,719
in the face

1793
01:26:52,719 --> 01:26:54,239
i assume

1794
01:26:54,239 --> 01:26:56,880
you have my records of my past criminal

1795
01:26:56,880 --> 01:26:58,320
life

1796
01:26:58,320 --> 01:27:00,800
after being released from jail

1797
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:05,600
i was put on a two-year parole

1798
01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:07,360
in them two years

1799
01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:09,840
i got myself a good job

1800
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:12,159
i have a swell wife now

1801
01:27:12,159 --> 01:27:15,280
and a good home too

1802
01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:18,960
i was with the military justice section

1803
01:27:18,960 --> 01:27:21,280
in paris headed by general betts the

1804
01:27:21,280 --> 01:27:22,800
legal authority closest to general

1805
01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:24,480
eisenhower

1806
01:27:24,480 --> 01:27:26,960
my responsibilities were to read

1807
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:30,239
and review cases for legal sufficiency

1808
01:27:30,239 --> 01:27:32,320
there was no recommendation for clemency

1809
01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:34,080
in this case and none is hearing

1810
01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:36,080
recommended

1811
01:27:36,080 --> 01:27:38,239
well i guess that does it huh unless

1812
01:27:38,239 --> 01:27:40,560
they reverse my decision

1813
01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:41,440
why

1814
01:27:41,440 --> 01:27:44,400
do you think he deserves clemency

1815
01:27:44,400 --> 01:27:47,040
i don't know frank but i'll bet the

1816
01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:48,480
court that sentenced him assumed he

1817
01:27:48,480 --> 01:27:50,239
wouldn't be shot isn't that a dangerous

1818
01:27:50,239 --> 01:27:52,480
assumption if able-bodied soldiers know

1819
01:27:52,480 --> 01:27:54,560
they can avoid hazardous duty how do you

1820
01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:57,040
fight a war come on frank able-bodied

1821
01:27:57,040 --> 01:27:58,639
men have been avoiding hazardous duty

1822
01:27:58,639 --> 01:28:01,120
for years we haven't shot any of them

1823
01:28:01,120 --> 01:28:04,400
maybe it's time we started

1824
01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:06,159
well i suppose it makes it easier the

1825
01:28:06,159 --> 01:28:08,159
fact that he's a confirmed felon

1826
01:28:08,159 --> 01:28:09,920
he isn't

1827
01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:12,239
he was a petty criminal bad boy type

1828
01:28:12,239 --> 01:28:15,360
lots of them make good soldiers oh

1829
01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:17,120
figured his criminal record was working

1830
01:28:17,120 --> 01:28:19,199
against him how did you figure that

1831
01:28:19,199 --> 01:28:20,560
it wasn't even mentioned in the court

1832
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:22,560
martial it's beside the point you know

1833
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:23,920
about it

1834
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:25,679
the other reviewing authorities all know

1835
01:28:25,679 --> 01:28:27,280
about it i mean his record didn't

1836
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:29,440
influence me

1837
01:28:29,440 --> 01:28:31,360
and the others

1838
01:28:31,360 --> 01:28:34,639
they'll have to speak for themselves

1839
01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:39,040
how can i tell you how humbly sorry i am

1840
01:28:39,040 --> 01:28:41,760
for the sins i've committed

1841
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:45,280
i beg of you deeply and sincerely

1842
01:28:45,280 --> 01:28:47,600
for the sake of my dear wife

1843
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:49,440
and mother back home

1844
01:28:49,440 --> 01:28:52,080
to have mercy on me

1845
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:54,960
to my knowledge i have a good record

1846
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:56,800
since my marriage

1847
01:28:56,800 --> 01:28:59,280
and as a soldier

1848
01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:01,440
i'd like to continue to be a good

1849
01:29:01,440 --> 01:29:02,960
soldier

1850
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:04,159
anxiously

1851
01:29:04,159 --> 01:29:06,480
awaiting your reply

1852
01:29:06,480 --> 01:29:10,480
which i earnestly pray is favorable god

1853
01:29:10,480 --> 01:29:11,679
bless you

1854
01:29:11,679 --> 01:29:14,639
and in your work for victory

1855
01:29:14,639 --> 01:29:17,600
i remain yours for victory

1856
01:29:17,600 --> 01:29:23,480
private eddie d slovik asn 36896415

1857
01:29:26,090 --> 01:29:29,180
[Music]

1858
01:29:31,180 --> 01:29:34,890
[Applause]

1859
01:30:03,199 --> 01:30:06,480
private slovak just arrived

1860
01:30:06,480 --> 01:30:08,320
yes sir thank you sir i'll call you back

1861
01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:09,600
in a few hours

1862
01:30:09,600 --> 01:30:12,840
yes sir

1863
01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:32,719
private slovic

1864
01:30:32,719 --> 01:30:36,719
yes sir at ease

1865
01:30:36,719 --> 01:30:38,719
i'm major feldman

1866
01:30:38,719 --> 01:30:40,800
this is chaplain stafford

1867
01:30:40,800 --> 01:30:42,719
your people held up in the snow yes sir

1868
01:30:42,719 --> 01:30:43,600
sir

1869
01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:45,120
all right go get some coffee thank you

1870
01:30:45,120 --> 01:30:46,320
sir uh you'll have to sign for the

1871
01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:48,560
prisoner sir all right

1872
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:52,719
meantime take off those cuffs yes sir

1873
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:03,840
did you uh you had the keys

1874
01:31:06,080 --> 01:31:08,000
maybe you left them in the truck no i

1875
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:11,520
must have left them back at the stockade

1876
01:31:15,199 --> 01:31:18,320
i'm sorry sir i don't have the keys

1877
01:31:18,320 --> 01:31:20,960
no duplicates uh i guess so sir but uh

1878
01:31:20,960 --> 01:31:23,840
they'd be in paris

1879
01:31:25,440 --> 01:31:26,639
all right

1880
01:31:26,639 --> 01:31:28,840
somebody find a

1881
01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:32,960
hacksaw move it over to the right

1882
01:31:34,880 --> 01:31:38,400
you all right slovak yes sir

1883
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:41,600
how you doing

1884
01:31:41,679 --> 01:31:45,239
almost got it sir

1885
01:31:46,159 --> 01:31:48,320
i'm sorry about this slovik

1886
01:31:48,320 --> 01:31:51,120
it's all right sir

1887
01:31:53,060 --> 01:31:56,119
[Music]

1888
01:31:56,960 --> 01:31:58,320
there's no reason for you men to hang

1889
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:00,480
around go get some chow yes sir

1890
01:32:00,480 --> 01:32:01,679
sir uh

1891
01:32:01,679 --> 01:32:04,080
i'd really like to apologize don't

1892
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:08,280
we're all pretty nervous this morning

1893
01:32:16,400 --> 01:32:18,400
excuse me sir

1894
01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:20,560
the major said you're a chaplain

1895
01:32:20,560 --> 01:32:23,040
that's right are you a priest

1896
01:32:23,040 --> 01:32:24,639
yes i am

1897
01:32:24,639 --> 01:32:26,080
i thought i was sent here in case you

1898
01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:30,000
want him well yes sir i guess i do

1899
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:35,199
will you hear my

1900
01:32:36,320 --> 01:32:37,720
will you hear my confession

1901
01:32:37,720 --> 01:32:39,760
[Music]

1902
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:40,600
of father

1903
01:32:42,239 --> 01:32:44,800
and can may i go to mass and communion

1904
01:32:44,800 --> 01:32:45,600
too

1905
01:32:45,600 --> 01:32:46,960
i'll be with you every minute of your

1906
01:32:46,960 --> 01:32:48,719
life

1907
01:32:48,719 --> 01:32:51,199
yes sir that would be swell

1908
01:32:51,199 --> 01:32:54,199
thanks

1909
01:32:58,080 --> 01:33:00,530
how much time i have

1910
01:33:00,530 --> 01:33:02,080
[Music]

1911
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:05,800
about two hours

1912
01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:16,920
thank you sir

1913
01:33:22,960 --> 01:33:24,320
feel better

1914
01:33:24,320 --> 01:33:25,440
yes sir

1915
01:33:25,440 --> 01:33:28,400
i almost got used to

1916
01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:32,080
is there somewhere where uh private

1917
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:34,080
slovak and i can be alone sergeant yes

1918
01:33:34,080 --> 01:33:36,320
sir there's a room upstairs but

1919
01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:37,520
are we through here

1920
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:38,639
well i'm supposed to read them in

1921
01:33:38,639 --> 01:33:40,159
general court martial order but i

1922
01:33:40,159 --> 01:33:41,440
imagine you've heard him a few dozen

1923
01:33:41,440 --> 01:33:42,719
times already

1924
01:33:42,719 --> 01:33:44,400
yes sir i have all right we'll forget it

1925
01:33:44,400 --> 01:33:45,840
for now and you can go along with father

1926
01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:47,920
stafford he tells me he has some letters

1927
01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:51,840
for you from your wife

1928
01:33:51,920 --> 01:33:53,600
can i read them father sure there's

1929
01:33:53,600 --> 01:33:56,920
plenty of time

1930
01:34:10,159 --> 01:34:14,840
i was so happy that when i woke up

1931
01:34:30,480 --> 01:34:33,280
you know something father

1932
01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:36,080
what eddie what is it

1933
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:37,760
this girl was the only break i ever got

1934
01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:40,320
in my life

1935
01:34:40,560 --> 01:34:43,040
but no one lost her

1936
01:34:43,040 --> 01:34:46,159
i just want to let us be happy

1937
01:34:46,159 --> 01:34:47,760
eddie i wish i could say something to

1938
01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:49,040
you

1939
01:34:49,040 --> 01:34:52,800
there would be some consolation time

1940
01:34:54,880 --> 01:34:57,280
i can't

1941
01:34:57,840 --> 01:35:00,800
think about this madison

1942
01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:04,159
think about that wife of yourself

1943
01:35:04,960 --> 01:35:06,480
that'll help

1944
01:35:06,480 --> 01:35:08,960
yes sir

1945
01:35:12,719 --> 01:35:14,239
we want you to do something for me today

1946
01:35:14,239 --> 01:35:15,280
huh

1947
01:35:15,280 --> 01:35:18,000
what's that thought

1948
01:35:21,360 --> 01:35:24,639
i want you to go out there and

1949
01:35:25,440 --> 01:35:28,920
die with courage

1950
01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:31,280
will you be with my father i'm going to

1951
01:35:31,280 --> 01:35:33,119
be right there okay then i'll be all

1952
01:35:33,119 --> 01:35:35,360
right

1953
01:35:38,719 --> 01:35:42,000
what is it

1954
01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:45,040
well i'm going to break it

1955
01:35:45,679 --> 01:35:47,679
all the guys don't get

1956
01:35:47,679 --> 01:35:49,199
i mean i'm allowed to sit here and talk

1957
01:35:49,199 --> 01:35:51,440
to you

1958
01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:53,840
i know i'm going to get it

1959
01:35:53,840 --> 01:35:57,679
i know i want to die in a few minutes

1960
01:35:57,679 --> 01:35:59,040
but up on the line you never know when

1961
01:35:59,040 --> 01:36:01,520
it's coming

1962
01:36:02,560 --> 01:36:04,639
and it's not

1963
01:36:04,639 --> 01:36:06,719
not knowing that

1964
01:36:06,719 --> 01:36:10,119
it gets too

1965
01:36:10,400 --> 01:36:11,360
i guess

1966
01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:12,159
that's

1967
01:36:12,159 --> 01:36:13,440
really what i

1968
01:36:13,440 --> 01:36:15,440
just couldn't take

1969
01:36:15,440 --> 01:36:18,159
but not knowing

1970
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:24,400
how much time now for

1971
01:36:24,400 --> 01:36:28,040
that's a while yet

1972
01:36:38,080 --> 01:36:41,199
my hands are not on fire

1973
01:36:50,880 --> 01:36:52,880
did you uh

1974
01:36:52,880 --> 01:36:54,320
did you meet the fellas on the firing

1975
01:36:54,320 --> 01:36:56,639
squad

1976
01:37:01,600 --> 01:37:04,239
what are they like

1977
01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:06,719
i mean uh

1978
01:37:06,719 --> 01:37:08,639
how do they feel about it

1979
01:37:08,639 --> 01:37:11,679
they're under orders eddie

1980
01:37:13,679 --> 01:37:15,040
he'd rather be someplace else this

1981
01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:16,480
morning

1982
01:37:16,480 --> 01:37:17,840
they got a job to do and they're gonna

1983
01:37:17,840 --> 01:37:21,480
do the best they can

1984
01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:23,440
you tell him i don't hold it against him

1985
01:37:23,440 --> 01:37:26,000
will your father oh sure

1986
01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:27,280
right

1987
01:37:27,280 --> 01:37:28,880
and uh

1988
01:37:28,880 --> 01:37:30,480
would you ask him to please shoot

1989
01:37:30,480 --> 01:37:34,360
straight so i don't have to suffer

1990
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:39,920
and father

1991
01:37:40,960 --> 01:37:42,960
i want you to

1992
01:37:42,960 --> 01:37:44,800
tell the fellows in the regiment that

1993
01:37:44,800 --> 01:37:46,840
eddie slovak wasn't a

1994
01:37:46,840 --> 01:37:50,320
card least not today

1995
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:53,960
will you tell him father

1996
01:38:04,159 --> 01:38:07,520
you think i had a shave huh

1997
01:38:14,560 --> 01:38:16,320
what's this what do you think it is

1998
01:38:16,320 --> 01:38:19,719
firing squad

1999
01:38:22,720 --> 01:38:30,499
[Music]

2000
01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:32,080
for these and all the sins i cannot

2001
01:38:32,080 --> 01:38:34,000
remember i asked penance and absolution

2002
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:35,520
of your father

2003
01:38:35,520 --> 01:38:37,920
or your penance see one rosie all right

2004
01:38:37,920 --> 01:38:39,119
father i will

2005
01:38:39,119 --> 01:38:40,960
i'll help you with all right

2006
01:38:40,960 --> 01:38:42,800
okay fine

2007
01:38:42,800 --> 01:38:45,360
i make a good act of condition

2008
01:38:45,360 --> 01:38:47,119
oh my god i am hardly sorry for having

2009
01:38:47,119 --> 01:38:49,440
offended day and now you test all my

2010
01:38:49,440 --> 01:38:51,440
sins because of their just punishments

2011
01:38:51,440 --> 01:38:52,880
but most of all because the offending

2012
01:38:52,880 --> 01:38:53,760
ego

2013
01:38:53,760 --> 01:38:56,000
was all good and deserving of all those

2014
01:38:56,000 --> 01:38:57,679
i finally resolved the help of thy grace

2015
01:38:57,679 --> 01:38:59,440
to say no more to avoiding your occasion

2016
01:38:59,440 --> 01:39:02,080
of sin even

2017
01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:07,400
good peace god bless you thank you

2018
01:39:28,320 --> 01:39:30,800
sergeant

2019
01:39:30,880 --> 01:39:34,679
sergeant's serving the mess

2020
01:39:50,159 --> 01:39:51,679
the lieutenant and i will load your

2021
01:39:51,679 --> 01:39:53,840
weapons while you're out of the room

2022
01:39:53,840 --> 01:39:56,080
we will be using one blank round so

2023
01:39:56,080 --> 01:39:57,920
there'll be a reasonable doubt in the

2024
01:39:57,920 --> 01:40:00,000
mind of each and every one of you as to

2025
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:01,920
whether or not you participated in the

2026
01:40:01,920 --> 01:40:04,239
actual killing of the prisoner

2027
01:40:04,239 --> 01:40:06,239
any questions

2028
01:40:06,239 --> 01:40:09,480
wait upstairs

2029
01:40:14,159 --> 01:40:16,880
honestly

2030
01:40:18,000 --> 01:40:20,400
dominic

2031
01:40:20,800 --> 01:40:23,840
nominee nonsense

2032
01:40:23,920 --> 01:40:27,040
dominate on something

2033
01:40:28,320 --> 01:40:31,320
officer

2034
01:40:47,360 --> 01:40:50,360
thanks

2035
01:40:59,119 --> 01:41:00,800
what are you thinking

2036
01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:02,880
i don't know

2037
01:41:02,880 --> 01:41:05,760
wondering if i'll get the blank i guess

2038
01:41:05,760 --> 01:41:07,920
nothing to wonder about

2039
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:09,199
what do you mean

2040
01:41:09,199 --> 01:41:11,119
just wait for the recoil

2041
01:41:11,119 --> 01:41:13,679
if it's a blank there won't be any kick

2042
01:41:13,679 --> 01:41:15,280
yeah

2043
01:41:15,280 --> 01:41:16,960
anybody fires a live round today you'll

2044
01:41:16,960 --> 01:41:19,840
know it

2045
01:41:23,679 --> 01:41:24,719
man

2046
01:41:24,719 --> 01:41:26,639
you can pick up your weapons now they've

2047
01:41:26,639 --> 01:41:27,840
all been locked but you better double

2048
01:41:27,840 --> 01:41:31,080
check them

2049
01:41:35,520 --> 01:41:36,280
b

2050
01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:41,560
14789 faster l 60251

2051
01:41:41,630 --> 01:41:49,589
[Music]

2052
01:41:51,600 --> 01:41:53,199
follow me to the front door sir the

2053
01:41:53,199 --> 01:41:57,159
officers are on the second floor

2054
01:42:07,840 --> 01:42:11,719
for just about three days

2055
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:27,280
gentlemen may i have your attention

2056
01:42:27,280 --> 01:42:29,600
please i'm major fellman we'll begin in

2057
01:42:29,600 --> 01:42:31,600
a few minutes would you all please move

2058
01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:33,280
down to the courtyard would you follow

2059
01:42:33,280 --> 01:42:36,440
me sir

2060
01:43:00,159 --> 01:43:02,960
take it easy eddie

2061
01:43:03,440 --> 01:43:06,719
would you hold these phones no sure

2062
01:43:07,600 --> 01:43:11,400
try to make it easy on yourself

2063
01:43:13,040 --> 01:43:14,639
i'm okay

2064
01:43:14,639 --> 01:43:17,520
i'm just about finished

2065
01:43:18,159 --> 01:43:20,000
you know something

2066
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:22,159
they're not shooting me for desertion

2067
01:43:22,159 --> 01:43:24,239
lots of guys have done that they just

2068
01:43:24,239 --> 01:43:25,600
need to make an example and i'm in it

2069
01:43:25,600 --> 01:43:28,400
because i'm an ex-con

2070
01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:31,679
are your wrists huh

2071
01:43:31,679 --> 01:43:33,360
haven't cut off the circulation ever oh

2072
01:43:33,360 --> 01:43:35,520
no they're fine i used to steal things

2073
01:43:35,520 --> 01:43:37,040
when i was a kid

2074
01:43:37,040 --> 01:43:38,719
that's what they're shooting me for

2075
01:43:38,719 --> 01:43:39,840
they're shooting me for the bread and

2076
01:43:39,840 --> 01:43:41,360
gum i used to steal when i was 12 years

2077
01:43:41,360 --> 01:43:43,600
old

2078
01:43:46,480 --> 01:43:48,639
we'll have to get going eddie

2079
01:43:48,639 --> 01:43:50,239
where's father

2080
01:43:50,239 --> 01:43:53,040
right here

2081
01:43:53,040 --> 01:43:54,480
i'm afraid i'll have to read the order

2082
01:43:54,480 --> 01:43:56,239
when we get outside and it's

2083
01:43:56,239 --> 01:43:58,080
when it's pretty damn cold

2084
01:43:58,080 --> 01:43:59,600
that's okay major

2085
01:43:59,600 --> 01:44:02,960
but would you read it fast please

2086
01:44:02,960 --> 01:44:05,360
let's go

2087
01:44:05,360 --> 01:44:08,320
can i have my rosemary

2088
01:44:12,080 --> 01:44:13,679
eddie

2089
01:44:13,679 --> 01:44:16,639
this will keep you warm

2090
01:44:17,520 --> 01:44:19,119
thank you hey i'm married full of grace

2091
01:44:19,119 --> 01:44:20,400
the lord is with you to start the home

2092
01:44:20,400 --> 01:44:21,520
i'm gonna bless the fruit of that one

2093
01:44:21,520 --> 01:44:24,719
jesus holy name of god pray for yourself

2094
01:44:24,719 --> 01:44:26,480
amen hail mary full of grace lord is

2095
01:44:26,480 --> 01:44:27,920
with you blessed are thou among women

2096
01:44:27,920 --> 01:44:29,679
blessed through thy womb jesus holy mary

2097
01:44:29,679 --> 01:44:31,280
mother of god pray first sin is not the

2098
01:44:31,280 --> 01:44:32,880
opera hail mary full of grace the lord

2099
01:44:32,880 --> 01:44:34,400
is with thee let's start though my will

2100
01:44:34,400 --> 01:44:36,159
bless the fruit of thy womb jesus mary

2101
01:44:36,159 --> 01:44:38,719
mother of god pray for us

2102
01:44:38,719 --> 01:44:40,560
hail mary for grace lord with you bless

2103
01:44:40,560 --> 01:44:42,000
our thumb and lord bless the fruit of

2104
01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:45,000
jesus

2105
01:44:50,159 --> 01:44:51,280
hail i'm here for the grace of lords

2106
01:44:51,280 --> 01:44:52,560
with you blessed are thomas and bless

2107
01:44:52,560 --> 01:44:53,920
the fruit of the womb jesus holy mary

2108
01:44:53,920 --> 01:44:56,080
mother of god

2109
01:44:56,080 --> 01:44:57,360
hail mary full of grace the lord is with

2110
01:44:57,360 --> 01:44:58,400
you if i start though my women will

2111
01:44:58,400 --> 01:45:02,040
bless the root of thy womb jesus

2112
01:45:13,920 --> 01:45:15,280
hail mary full of grace lords with the

2113
01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:16,400
blessed art thou among one blessed be

2114
01:45:16,400 --> 01:45:17,679
the devil in jesus holy mary mother of

2115
01:45:17,679 --> 01:45:19,040
god pray for sinners not the outward

2116
01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:20,239
death of amen

2117
01:45:20,239 --> 01:45:21,199
for marriage for the grace lord is

2118
01:45:21,199 --> 01:45:22,239
worthy of blessed art thou among women

2119
01:45:22,239 --> 01:45:23,360
will bless the fruit of the womb jesus

2120
01:45:23,360 --> 01:45:24,560
holy mary mother of god pray for our

2121
01:45:24,560 --> 01:45:26,080
sinners now at the hour nothing man no

2122
01:45:26,080 --> 01:45:27,280
miracle grace lord is with you let's

2123
01:45:27,280 --> 01:45:28,320
start that one we'll bless the fruit of

2124
01:45:28,320 --> 01:45:29,840
that one jesus holy mary mother god pray

2125
01:45:29,840 --> 01:45:30,880
for a sinner's name at the all right i

2126
01:45:30,880 --> 01:45:32,159
think no miracle agrees to lord he

2127
01:45:32,159 --> 01:45:33,280
blessed our time i want to bless the

2128
01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:34,960
truth of thy word jesus christ of god

2129
01:45:34,960 --> 01:45:36,320
pray for singers and have the already

2130
01:45:36,320 --> 01:45:37,440
amen

2131
01:45:37,440 --> 01:45:39,840
praise the lord

2132
01:45:39,840 --> 01:45:42,239
jesus christ of god pray for sinners

2133
01:45:42,239 --> 01:45:44,800
amen no matter

2134
01:45:44,800 --> 01:45:46,560
it is my duty as officer in charge to

2135
01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:48,000
read you the general court martial

2136
01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:50,239
orders

2137
01:45:50,960 --> 01:45:53,840
general court martial order number 27.

2138
01:45:53,840 --> 01:45:56,320
the action of the convening authority is

2139
01:45:56,320 --> 01:45:59,040
headquarters 28th infantry division

2140
01:45:59,040 --> 01:46:01,280
in the foregoing case of private eddie d

2141
01:46:01,280 --> 01:46:04,400
slovik three six eight nine six four one

2142
01:46:04,400 --> 01:46:07,679
five company g 109th infantry ever

2143
01:46:07,679 --> 01:46:10,880
borrow a rifle from a cook hmm

2144
01:46:10,880 --> 01:46:13,040
you

2145
01:46:13,840 --> 01:46:16,560
european theater of operation an article

2146
01:46:16,560 --> 01:46:18,639
of war 50 in one half

2147
01:46:18,639 --> 01:46:20,639
having been complied with will be

2148
01:46:20,639 --> 01:46:23,760
carried into execution on 31 january

2149
01:46:23,760 --> 01:46:28,000
1945 at 109th infantry area france by

2150
01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:31,520
command of general eisenhower

2151
01:46:31,760 --> 01:46:33,600
slovak do you have a statement to make

2152
01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:34,960
before the order directing your

2153
01:46:34,960 --> 01:46:38,239
execution is carried out

2154
01:46:39,040 --> 01:46:41,840
no sir

2155
01:46:42,400 --> 01:46:45,119
private slovic

2156
01:46:45,119 --> 01:46:46,800
your last statement to make to me as a

2157
01:46:46,800 --> 01:46:49,600
chaplain before your death

2158
01:46:49,600 --> 01:46:52,600
yes

2159
01:46:54,719 --> 01:46:58,400
prepare the condemn for execution

2160
01:46:58,639 --> 01:47:00,639
our father lord heaven

2161
01:47:00,639 --> 01:47:02,560
be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be

2162
01:47:02,560 --> 01:47:04,480
done on earth as it is in heaven give us

2163
01:47:04,480 --> 01:47:05,679
to stay our daddy brian if you give us

2164
01:47:05,679 --> 01:47:07,600
our trespasses so you hear

2165
01:47:07,600 --> 01:47:09,520
against us and he is not in temptation

2166
01:47:09,520 --> 01:47:11,679
but deliver us an evil amen hail mary

2167
01:47:11,679 --> 01:47:12,639
full of grace the lord is with you

2168
01:47:12,639 --> 01:47:13,840
blessed are those women in the blessed

2169
01:47:13,840 --> 01:47:15,520
fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother

2170
01:47:15,520 --> 01:47:16,719
of god pray for sinners now at the end

2171
01:47:16,719 --> 01:47:18,239
of our death amen hail mary full of

2172
01:47:18,239 --> 01:47:19,360
grace the lord is with thee blessed art

2173
01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:20,719
thou among us the fruit of thy womb

2174
01:47:20,719 --> 01:47:22,480
jesus holy mary mother god pray first

2175
01:47:22,480 --> 01:47:24,320
sin is not the almighty death amen hail

2176
01:47:24,320 --> 01:47:25,520
mary full of grace the lord is with thee

2177
01:47:25,520 --> 01:47:26,800
blessed art thou among the blessed fruit

2178
01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:28,639
of thy will jesus holy mary mother god

2179
01:47:28,639 --> 01:47:30,080
pray for sinners not the outright death

2180
01:47:30,080 --> 01:47:31,840
amen hail mary full of grace the lord is

2181
01:47:31,840 --> 01:47:32,960
with thee blessed are we willing to

2182
01:47:32,960 --> 01:47:34,560
bless the fruit of thy womb jesus holy

2183
01:47:34,560 --> 01:47:35,920
mary mother of god pray for us sinners

2184
01:47:35,920 --> 01:47:37,920
not the alpha death amen hail mary full

2185
01:47:37,920 --> 01:47:40,239
of grace the lord is blessed with thy

2186
01:47:40,239 --> 01:47:42,080
own jesus holy mary mother of god pray

2187
01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:43,119
for us sinners not at the hour of our

2188
01:47:43,119 --> 01:47:44,960
death amen hail mary full of grace the

2189
01:47:44,960 --> 01:47:47,760
lord is blessed through thy one jesus

2190
01:47:47,760 --> 01:47:49,360
only mary mother of god pray for sinners

2191
01:47:49,360 --> 01:47:52,480
now at the outright death amen

2192
01:47:57,360 --> 01:48:00,239
when you get up there

2193
01:48:00,320 --> 01:48:03,280
say a little prayer for me

2194
01:48:03,280 --> 01:48:05,280
i will find

2195
01:48:05,280 --> 01:48:06,639
i'll pray that you don't follow me too

2196
01:48:06,639 --> 01:48:09,639
soon

2197
01:48:45,199 --> 01:48:46,960
holy moon one of god pray for sinners

2198
01:48:46,960 --> 01:48:48,960
now the almighty death amen hail mary

2199
01:48:48,960 --> 01:48:50,080
full of grace the lord is with you

2200
01:48:50,080 --> 01:48:51,679
blessed are you and i must live for thy

2201
01:48:51,679 --> 01:48:53,520
one jesus holy mary mother of god pray

2202
01:48:53,520 --> 01:48:55,520
for sinners

2203
01:48:55,520 --> 01:48:56,719
hail mary

2204
01:48:56,719 --> 01:48:59,719
father

2205
01:49:27,119 --> 01:49:28,480
the lord is with you blessed are them

2206
01:49:28,480 --> 01:49:29,679
the woman and blessed the food i

2207
01:49:29,679 --> 01:49:32,239
remember holy mary mother of god bring

2208
01:49:32,239 --> 01:49:35,360
my sinners that happy squad hold on for

2209
01:49:35,360 --> 01:49:37,119
grace the lord is with me blessed are

2210
01:49:37,119 --> 01:49:39,159
the hammers the

2211
01:49:39,159 --> 01:49:43,320
truth of god

2212
01:49:46,800 --> 01:49:49,119
jesus holy mary mother of god pray for

2213
01:49:49,119 --> 01:49:51,360
us sinners not the awkward ethnic man

2214
01:49:51,360 --> 01:49:53,040
when women bless through them jesus holy

2215
01:49:53,040 --> 01:49:54,639
mary mother god pray for sinners now

2216
01:49:54,639 --> 01:49:55,679
they are

2217
01:49:55,679 --> 01:49:57,840
one

2218
01:50:00,860 --> 01:50:04,020
[Applause]

2219
01:50:11,040 --> 01:50:14,040
i'm

2220
01:50:58,480 --> 01:51:00,880
is he still alive

2221
01:51:00,880 --> 01:51:02,639
barely

2222
01:51:02,639 --> 01:51:03,920
they must have been nervous they did a

2223
01:51:03,920 --> 01:51:07,840
lousy job not one wound in the heart

2224
01:51:08,239 --> 01:51:11,199
surely fire again

2225
01:51:11,199 --> 01:51:13,280
i don't know by that time he'll probably

2226
01:51:13,280 --> 01:51:16,440
be dead

2227
01:51:30,880 --> 01:51:33,520
reload that's right give her another

2228
01:51:33,520 --> 01:51:35,840
volley do you like it so much

2229
01:51:35,840 --> 01:51:37,280
take it easy padre none of us is

2230
01:51:37,280 --> 01:51:40,679
enjoying this

2231
01:51:45,590 --> 01:51:48,709
[Applause]

2232
01:51:51,730 --> 01:51:54,639
[Applause]

2233
01:51:54,639 --> 01:51:56,800
be careful lieutenant let's not kill one

2234
01:51:56,800 --> 01:51:58,800
of our own accidentally this morning

2235
01:51:58,800 --> 01:52:00,560
yes sir

2236
01:52:00,560 --> 01:52:03,800
sorry sir

2237
01:52:05,440 --> 01:52:07,119
either pronounce him dead or stand back

2238
01:52:07,119 --> 01:52:10,760
for the second volley

2239
01:52:27,679 --> 01:52:29,199
the second volley won't be necessary

2240
01:52:29,199 --> 01:52:33,639
major but it's lovely his dad

2241
01:52:49,599 --> 01:52:53,040
sentence has been carried out

2242
01:52:55,360 --> 01:52:56,560
dismissed

2243
01:52:56,560 --> 01:53:02,880
[Applause]

2244
01:53:02,880 --> 01:53:04,750
right

2245
01:53:04,750 --> 01:53:06,320
[Applause]

2246
01:53:06,320 --> 01:53:07,920
right shoulder

2247
01:53:07,920 --> 01:53:09,860
ah

2248
01:53:09,860 --> 01:53:13,160
[Applause]

2249
01:53:16,239 --> 01:53:18,560
come on

2250
01:53:18,850 --> 01:53:21,800
[Applause]

2251
01:53:21,800 --> 01:53:23,850
left right

2252
01:53:23,850 --> 01:53:30,089
[Applause]

2253
01:53:38,500 --> 01:53:41,569
[Applause]

2254
01:53:45,119 --> 01:53:46,880
you take off his shoe so i can anoint

2255
01:53:46,880 --> 01:53:49,280
his wood

2256
01:53:49,920 --> 01:53:52,560
i can't figure him

2257
01:53:52,560 --> 01:53:54,400
if he was a coward

2258
01:53:54,400 --> 01:53:57,280
he didn't show it

2259
01:53:57,520 --> 01:53:59,440
eddie slovak was the bravest man here

2260
01:53:59,440 --> 01:54:02,440
today

2261
01:54:02,960 --> 01:54:13,079
[Applause]

2262
01:55:19,199 --> 01:55:20,880
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2263
01:55:20,880 --> 01:55:22,560
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2264
01:55:22,560 --> 01:55:25,199
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01:55:25,199 --> 01:55:27,360
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2266
01:55:27,360 --> 01:55:29,760
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2267
01:55:29,760 --> 01:55:32,239
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2268
01:55:32,239 --> 01:55:35,239
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