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Traitor to his country
- Hey, is that it? - I think so.
My husband is coming on that plane, Four years in Korea.
- Wait for your husband? - No, he died in the war.
- I'm sorry. - I wait for your brother.
- Is this your son, colonel? - Yes, he is my son.
We are about to take land. Speed 160 km.
We have taken land, without novelty on board. All in order.
My husband was a prisoner of war for two years.
- My son too. - They'll be happy to come back.
Excuse me.
What happens?
They shrink your heart These receptions.
Come on, everything is ready. Down.
There it is, isn't that it?
No, I don't think so.
Sergeant, do you want to deliver this? to the wounded of that stretcher?
A lady from there asked me I gave him this.
Ed!
Are you a boy? Ed!
- Does your leg hurt, captain? - No, my leg is fine.
We better go to hospital.
Yes
Keep in mind that these men they just went through circumstances
extraordinary than ever They leave their mark.
If you want to talk, do it. But don't ask them anything,
Don't push them.
They must remember that, although of moment, it seems they don't want
honey, now they need it especially.
The best way to express it is having patience with them
and accepting them as they are.
Now they are before the officers of the investigation service
telling the incidents from captivity
before your impressions be deleted.
Hi, Captain Hall. Come in, my name is Byron Phillips I am a psychiatrist.
- Do you have to close it? - No, it is not necessary.
Let me turn it on.
Leave it, it's the same.
I'm interested in talking with everyone because I know
the fact of being a prisoner It causes emotional problems.
I can help you. Tell me what division belonged in front.
- What? - What was your division?
Field number five, Piokton.
I mean before of being taken prisoner
The division 24.
Well, can you tell me something of what happened at that time?
When was he captured?
Everything is confusing.
He feels better this way, with the hand in front of the mouth?
No, leave it if you want. Only I asked him if he felt better.
- Yes, that's right. - Do you try to hide something like that?
The denture, I lost several pieces during my captivity.
- Many? - Half of the molars.
It is unfortunate. He is ashamed that people notice?
Do not.
Then he doesn't put his hand in front from the mouth to hide it.
It won't be maybe to shut up something who doesn't want it to be known?
And of the field? Can you tell me anything?
Well...
there was a ...
a man...
who gave me a cigarette and turned it on.
Was he a companion in captivity? Who was it then?
An interrogator was Chinese.
That's why he's scared that you light the cigarette?
What happened next of having turned it on?
You don't want to tell me?
Ok There will be no lack of occasions So we can continue chatting.
�You need help now on something?
Maybe there is a question What special do you want to record?
I'm scared.
I do not want to go home.
Son, what a joy!
- Hey, there is Ed. - Wow, finally.
- Hi. - Can I say hello?
Wow, let me see you.
�You know that at the airport did you scare us? You are great.
- It is admirably. - Yes, admirable, great.
- What you need is a ... - A steak from Kansas City.
- Good steaks. - It's all I need.
Happy to see you at home? How are you?
- Calm down, I'm fine. - We've brought you these candies.
Do you know what I would do if Wouldn't there be public here?
- What, kiss me too? - Square me.
- Square before you. - Would you do it?
- I would, yes, sir. I would do it. - Well, let's sit down, huh?
Aggie, I imagined that now you would be waiting for a baby,
- Where is Peter ...? - You didn't receive our letter, right?
Yes, I remember now ... I'm sorry, Aggie.
- I take responsability. - I'm not sorry. I...
Well, the only thing I remembered To come back
it was that Peter owed me 3 turkeys of a ...
Shut up, let it go, We must not explain anything.
Do you know how much has happened? It has been more than three years.
Clear, And is my room still the same?
Three years you have been hidden in an oriental tea house
and here we go crazy. You didn't write ...
Father.
- What have those done to you, Ed? - Father, please.
I don't know what I'm saying. I know you don't have to ask him,
- But it's so hard. - I'm sorry I fell prisoner.
Don't say that, you couldn't help it, They are war zones.
- I would like to compensate you in some way. - Now it's all over,
It would be best to forget it.
Forget it.
Ed, we understand.
I do not...
I didn't want you to see me like that.
- We must go. - Yes.
Hey, we will come often even if only for ...
No. You don't have to come, father.
Now I want to recover, and when It's all right I'll come home.
- Did we send you anything? - No, it's not necessary.
I will be in touch with the doctors every day
and as soon as you are in condition We will come looking for you.
It's a great idea, thanks.
- Well, bye. - Goodbye, son.
These things do not make him No grace, I already told you.
TRAITOR
Hey, wait a minute!
Hey, let me explain!
Hey, wait a minute!
What did you want me to do? What could he do?
Good afternoon, sir. I will tell the colonel that he is here.
- Would you like a soda? - No thanks.
- Do you want a cup of coffee? - The colonel is waiting for you, sir.
- Do you want some coffee? - No thanks.
What's up, there's a conspiracy not to let me sleep?
Yes
That does not worry me, I am used to it.
- Do you know what I made you come for? - Rumors have wings.
And this has flown.
I've been chatting with the nurse from his living room
- He doesn't sleep either. - I just saw him.
When someone wants to play us a mischievously, we all present it.
�You think they played you a trick?
- Yes, I think so. - Why?
You will have time to find out before of celebrating the war council.
Find out what, about rumors of some talk
- About some complaints? - It's something more serious than all that.
It's not about rumors.
- Can you give me a cigarette? - Fix it yourself.
I told Colonel Harvey that you would come to take charge
from the summary this morning and that You would start acting right away.
Tell me what you need.
Value is what it takes.
Nobody likes it set precedents.
Well, this is not the first case of collaboration that is judged.
- I know. - Well, remember it.
- You're very nervous. - Of course I'm nervous.
A man goes to war being lieutenant and returns from captain
with the silver star and with mention.
- Your general gives you a complimentary letter. - I know all that.
But you think loyalty ends to fall prisoner?
According to the ordinances, no.
Hey, Sam, in everything you affects the army act with caution
and he wants it done strict justice.
Do you know how many cases like this one? have they been tried?
Forty. Only forty between hundreds in which there were signs
for maximum rigor. This is one of them.
- I already know. - We are both lawyers.
Our duty is to contribute That true justice be done.
To be found guilty or not It's something we don't have to decide.
- The jury will. - In agreement.
But I say to accuse You have to be well convinced.
Those who judge him will have to probe their own souls,
Analyze your doubts.
A judge always has to clear your doubts, Sam,
or else you don't have right to judge.
Condemn with doubts and without guarantees of Justice
It wouldn't be judging, it would be an iniquity And nobody wants that.
I'm going to show you something, Sam.
Sergeant, call security and say that I'm going there with the commander auditor.
Come on.
- Is this the Hall file? - Yes, that is.
Well, my son is not that tall.
It is what the army has collected in 6 months among prisoners
who lived with him. Everyone had something to say.
Could I sleep here tonight?
Sam, naturally, this case It has to give you some grief,
But no regret.
- Do you need anything? - Yes.
Coffee.
- Goodnight. - Nice gift.
God help me tonight.
Good night, Sam.
Aggie?
Aggie, are you out there?
It's you, Aggie. Hi.
What's up? Is something wrong with you?
- If you were going to sleep, say it and I'll go. - Oh no.
Al said that tonight he wanted go to bed earlier
- To change system. - I need to talk to someone.
- Honey! - I'm coming right away, Al.
- Come in, I'll make some coffee. - Wouldn't it be better to talk out here?
Good.
- Why don't you read a book, Al? - Read a book?
Well, to instruct you. I go right away.
- How is Roger? - If you saw him an hour ago.
Ed will come home Tomorrow night.
- Well, finally. - I don't know what I'm going to do.
- I thought I knew, but I don't know. - What do you want to do, stay the same?
I can't go on like that, that's the problem. Do you not realize?
Caroline, do you want to do the favor? to come at once?
Now I go, honey.
You better tell me sooner.
- I don't want to bother you. - You don't bother. Come on, tell me.
I thought I had forgotten all These things a long time ago.
But when I enter the room Now and I'm going to turn on the lamp
and put some flowers, right away Peter's memory comes to mind.
How much I miss Peter tonight!
Of course I do.
I thought I had forgotten what it was a husband, and now
- Everything reminds me. - I know.
- Why is life not the same? - Because there is nothing eternal in it.
Aggie?
What can I do now?
If you want, you can stay a few days with us. Roger will be happy.
- And Al won't mind. - I know, not even you.
Sorry, I wouldn't want to interrupt,
But when are we going to fix that library of Ed?
Now, I'll go right away.
I better go, Don't you think?
- Aggie. - Yes, sincere.
Yes, I think it's the best. Ed will come back to his home from a hospital,
I will need all the help that they can give him,
Don't you think?
Yes
Honey, I'm done reading.
- Captain Hall, sir. - Let it happen.
- Do you want to sit down, captain? - Thank you.
I don't intend to entertain you, so I will do without formalities.
- Would you like to give me your affiliation? - My name, grade and number?
It is pure procedure.
Edward W. Hall, captain, 4969001.
It is my duty to inform you that they weigh about you serious charges,
and that must appear before a war council.
Ok
Here I have a copy of your service sheet.
- If you want, you can check it. - No, I'm sure it's accurate.
Clear. I want to remind you that before the law he has, as the accused,
The same rights as a civilian. He will be considered innocent
as long as it is not proven otherwise.
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Wasnick He has been charged with his defense.
If you want, you can name another, and can appoint a civil lawyer.
No, it's fine.
I'll take care that this afternoon have a copy of the statements
of witnesses and may act right away
�Wish me to visit you to his house?
Yes, but ...
I would like to prevent my father before. Now ignore what's against me.
Well, it can be left for tomorrow.
I will tell you tonight.
I must remind you that whatever you say since Now it can be used against you.
- Will you take charge of accusing me? - Yes.
Meanwhile, I have issued orders for other than you arrested
and so that they don't bother you of any kind.
It would not be fair considering Your service sheet.
Thank you, I appreciate how much you have done.
- All right. - Is that all, sir?
Everything. You can leave now.
I appreciate your attention.
And your pins?
Here in the pocket.
They are part of his uniform, captain
Do not judge yourself.
Thank you.
Well, then until the advice.
Is no one home?
Welcome!
Hey, save me, will you?
Can you give me a drink?
- What do you think of the boy, Aggie? - I'll make you a drink.
Well, soldier, how are you? How much has passed, 6 years?
Don't get heavy, Frank, Don't play jokes.
- This is wonderful. One never ... - We have to sit down and talk.
- Do you have claustrophobia? - Do not.
Neither do I, when There are no bars on the doors.
I try to tear myself away from people, but I don't want to be alone.
We wanted to show you our joy and we thought this surprise
It would be a good idea.
Well, I don't like surprises, But everything is fine.
- Looks like something happened to you. - That's right.
I want to say something other than the penalties of captivity.
- Looks like you've changed. - Oh yes? Why?
You didn't communicate to anyone what you felt or what you wanted.
- No one, not even your father. - How's your health, Aggie?
- Immovable. - I like that, I'm glad.
Nothing affects you, I don't know how he manages
That is acquired in the army.
- Do you know what happens to me? - Do not.
My mother was not in the army And that's why I'm half done.
I still don't know you well. Is that your way of being or is that now
- Do you laugh at yourself? - Oh no.
Do you remember those beings half man and half horse?
Well, something like that is me. Half of my father ...
Half of my father, the disappointments
Half of my mother, hopes.
You have not disappointed your father.
You know what I did this afternoon when leaving the hospital?
I went to the cemetery and I stayed for a while before my mother's grave.
I said "Mother, I'm sorry. I've become understanding, as you wanted,
but it has already been out of time. "
That is the change you notice. It's funny, isn't it?
- No, I don't like it. - See, when I was a child
and did some mischief, I needed then talk to someone, explain ...
My mother always listened to me, But my father never.
Well i'm drinking And I haven't had dinner yet.
What worries you now, Ed?
- Are you perhaps impassive, Aggie? - No, I don't think so.
Listen, I know what you are ...
It would have been better than instead of I could come, Pete could have come.
I say how I feel, and we both think the same.
We would have liked you to welcome Out for someone else.
It is something we share.
I would like to stay here just a moment. Soon it will come out.
You'll understand it all later, Aggie
- Do you want to turn off the light? - All right.
Say?
Who is it, Aggie? I’m Dudley Smith.
What a surprise, I thought I was still in Korea.
No, I arrived this afternoon.
- How is the old man? - It's fine.
- Colonel Smith? - Tell him I'll go see him later.
It might take a while, but I will go as soon as I can.
Well, I'll see you later.
Guess who will come. Colonel Smith
- But when have you returned? - He has returned this afternoon.
I hope it's still on time to the party. Have you seen Ed?
- I think it's in the kitchen. - In the kitchen?
- Are you there, Ed? - Yes, here I am.
I want to drink with you. Look, button caught the enemy.
- Don't turn on the light, father. - Are you feeling bad with so much noise?
- I'm not well. - And why are you hiding here?
You don't know everyone Have they come to see you?
Yes, I already know.
Do you want to try this one? It smells, it has a hearth.
When everyone leaves, we we will sit in front of the fireplace
and we'll talk about our stuff. Do you think it's okay?
Yes, very good.
Say, how about you?
You already know that when you get to certain age, they send you for a ride.
But everything went well.
Of course, it's not like having command.
Remember what they say about Old soldiers, who never die.
I don't hide that I was about of sinking a couple of times.
Because of Peter?
And for you.
For you.
- Peter died without suffering. - Was lucky.
The high command sent me a letter. Above is in a frame.
Your younger brother He was also a good soldier.
Did you think I would come back?
I had got used to it Not to think about anything.
Long time ago Stopped doing it.
But I expected.
For a hope come true, the one about my son Ed coming back.
Well, don't you want to say anything?
Yes, I want to toast for you, father.
For my father, the unbreakable optimistic. God bless you.
I'm sorry, it's necessary more whiskey out there.
Do you mind if I go to bed? I am Tired and I don't want to spoil the party.
You can't spoil anything. Today is the happiest day of my life.
- Goodnight. - Good night boy.
- Excuse me, what did you want? - Whiskey
- What a beautiful party, Aggie. - Yes, a very beautiful party.
- I think everyone has had fun. - Of course I do.
You want me to make coffee for you And for Colonel Smith?
Surely you will pass The night talking.
- I think it's an excellent idea. - In agreement.
Stay here and rest.
You make me very happy, Aggie.
- You make me so happy. Did I tell you? - Yes, you told me.
Are you singing, father?
No, I am dancing.
Smith!
Ed, old fox.
- Are you going to leave me out here? - Come in, go inside.
- Now it's all free. - I'm sorry I was so late.
Never mind. You are made an oak.
You don't know how glad I am You visit.
Sit down so I can see you better. Take that chair, it's comfortable.
Good.
Friend, we must recognize that You keep well, very well.
The country air does it all.
You are not bad either To be an old man.
The gray hair gives you an appearance colorful and distinguished.
Do you know what it is? The brain, which goes up.
I can only tell you One thing: you still have guts.
My current destiny demands me I have it.
Do you know what they have done with me? Reduce myself to be a species
of school boys instructor.
- What do you want to drink? - Anything.
I think I have Napoleon co�ac and I opened the bottle only a few days ago.
I'm glad you take it With such a good disposition.
What else can I do, scream, cry?
It would be a way to let off steam. Did he tell you himself?
Tell me what?
What?
Well, what about that mystery?
- Are you kidding? - Kidding what?
- You are welcome. - Go on, you shouldn't hide anything from me.
Why don't you sit still and you sit? You make me nervous.
Feel there. Now tell me everything What you thought I knew.
Ok
When I landed on Travis, I found Colonel Hansen
- Who is it? - A military judge.
- Where is Ed? - Upstairs in your room, why?
- I think they will process him. - Process him?
What has he done, forget about greeting a superior,
- Or have you been surprised without a uniform? - Do not.
It seems that he has collaborated with the enemy
Are you crazy?
Colonel Hansen has said it. Three charges, nine specifications.
I can't believe it!
- Ed, I thought you already knew. - I can't believe it!
What have you collaborated with? Ue That my son Have you collaborated with the enemy?
What kind of disgusting gossip are you trying to tell me?
- Ask him. - I don't have to ask!
What damage are you trying to do to me?
That boy has won a silver star! Did you know?
- And other decorations. - It's not me who wants to prosecute him.
It is my pride. My son has honored my name.
- Ed! - Calm down.
- Ed! - Father, leave it now.
Father, not now.
- What time is it? - Get up!
- What happens? - Get up!
Well, I have a question for you.
I want you to answer me simply "yes" or "no".
Have you collaborated with the enemy?
Have you collaborated with the enemy?
Yes, I did.
Why didn't they kill you? Why? Didn't they kill you like your brother?
I would have preferred so be it!
Father!
Father!
That is what I would have preferred also, such a death:
Clean, honorable and dignified. What have you imagined?
That only tremendous reasons They have been able to drag you into betrayal,
to the vileness of forgetting loyalty that you owed us to your homeland and to me.
You? And what about me?
You know what I won by dragging me before them as you say?
Do you know what they gave me, father? Now you will know!
All I won was a blanket smelly, radada and disgusting!
�And three hours scarce of uninterrupted sleep!
And hey this, Colonel: that day I told myself what I had done
a great business!
- Good morning, sir. - Good morning.
Can you tell me the room from Mr. Hall?
Room 316. It has not risen, Last night I left no notice.
- Where is the dining room? - Next to the lobby.
Room service, please.
Room service? Room 316. Bring a Bloody Mary.
A Bloody Mary
Wait a moment. Do not hang up.
- Who are you? - Your lawyer, my name is Wasnick.
They wait for me on the phone. Pass.
Yes, it's whiskey with tomato. Do you want another one?
How, they don't open the bar until nine?
- No, I don't want breakfast. - Excuse me, captain.
I have already ordered your breakfast. Orange juice, eggs with ham
and a double coffee well loaded. You have to eat.
I would rather drink.
- What did he say his name is? - Wasnick. W-A-S-N-l-C-K.
It is a Polish surname.
Nice to meet you.
- How did you know I was here? - I come from your house.
Your sister has told me. It is very nice.
Yes Was my father there?
It will be strategically withdrawn Knowing who I was.
Aggie has told me what happened Last night between you and your father.
Yes, poor Aggie. It is between two fires.
I don't think so.
Well, what are we going to do with this from you?
We have two weeks to prepare us
- I don't know. - It's a curious attitude.
Colonel, what kind of lawyer is it?
He has a predilection for the lost causes?
I don't like that one judges himself. I don't think so constructive.
- Do you not know? I'm guilty. - We don't believe that either.
We both know he had his reasons to act that way.
Both?
I am a man of laws, captain. I have never won a silver star
I have not been in a field of prisoners.
Therefore I don't know how I would have ported in place.
But I think little more or less I would have done the same.
In such a situation I think we would all do it.
It must be breakfast. Ahead.
Ok, come in.
- I serve you, sir? - Needless. Leave it here.
Is that our conversation
Do not want to comment?
Why don't you plead me guilty and we forget this?
Let's be practical, Captain Hall, at the risk of sacrificing your appetite.
He knows what they would condemn if he Will they plead guilty to all charges?
I have a slight idea.
Then we should not pave them the way.
Come on, I beg you.
This morning, at nine, the whole nation will be pending
from the city of San Francisco, where will be judged on war council
Captain Edward Hall. To the son of colonel of the same name
he is accused of having collaborated with the enemy
when he was a prisoner in Korea.
- I'm going to the council. - Go away.
- Have you changed your mind? - Do not.
I will not beg you.
� Come home on time Or will I have to eat out?
I'll call you later.
- Sergeant. - I'll have to wait for a turn.
- I am the captain of Captain Hall. - Come please.
The council is constituted.
All who have been asked cited as witnesses in this case
leave the room until Be called to appear.
All charges listed in the targeting are
by collaboration with the enemy.
If the accused consents, omit the reading of the pointing.
A copy of it is found before each member of the court,
- The auditor and the accused. - The accused consents.
The reading is then skipped of the aim.
The charges were presented by me to the accused on March 6, 1954.
Captain Hall, Do you have anything to claim?
Captain Edward W. Hall declares that the accusations are not true
filed against him. Is innocent.
The accusation recuses The words of the defense.
The accusation will prove that the accused, when he was a prisoner,
in North Korea, in the period between January 51
and July 53, proportion� consciously and willingly
Help the enemy.
According to the law, it cannot be accepted that by doing it work
under duress or abuse.
The accusation requires the presence of his first witness,
Mr. Millar Cassidy.
Raise your right hand.
He swears what he declares in this advice will be the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the the truth with the help of God?
I swear.
- Sit down, Mr. Cassidy. - Thank you.
Say your name and what job is dedicated please.
My name is Millard Chilson Cassidy, I am a mechanic.
- Where do you live, Mr. Cassidy? - Block 5, district 2, Carlina del Sur.
- Do you know the accused? - Yes, sir.
If you are in the room, Can you point it out?
Yes, he is sitting there.
Where did he first see The accused?
- In field 5, in Piokton. - When was that?
Well, I don't remember exactly, Did I ask Captain Hall?
No, you can't ask.
Little more or less in the winter from 1951, as far as I remember.
�I observed in the behavior of the Captain Hall some special detail?
Yes, one day he threatened a boy That slept next to me.
He knew that boy I was sick,
but told him to get up right away or he would be thrown into the hole.
Then slapped him. I never believed that An American officer did something like that.
He says I slapped him, And did the boy get up?
No, sir, I was very sick and could not move.
Describe other relative details to the conduct of Captain Hall.
One morning they took us out of the barracks to hear some doctrinal monsergas.
The instructor said there was a special guest and then
- Captain Hall introduced himself. - What did I talk about?
He wanted to convince us that The Chinese were great.
He said they wanted to be our friends
And then add that we would appreciate the good food they gave us.
That made us all laugh.
He said the Chinese didn't hate to simple people,
but to the rich people of Wall Street that had induced the US UU.
to invade Korea.
He said: "I feel happy and happy to declare the truth here
- Before all of you. " - I protest.
The witness has cited a sentence attributed to the accused
and I ask you to ratify it, or contrary to the record.
�I can beg the defender What point a little more?
Yes, I mean specifically the words "I feel happy and happy."
Mr. Cassidy, Captain Hall Did I say exactly those words?
Yes, sir, sure. Of course They are not part of my language.
The witness confirms that the Captain Hall uttered the words
"I feel happy and happy." Do them appear in the minutes in quotes.
- Thank you for the clarification. - You're welcome.
- Did you think what Captain Hall said? - No, sir.
I didn't believe any of that because I was sure it wasn't true.
But some boys They started to doubt.
Because it was not a Chinese who He spoke, but Captain Hall,
One of our officers. I mean it was easy to be fooled
Seeing that he spoke sincerely.
- I protest. That is an opinion. - Do not write down the word "sincerely."
He had the impression that the captain Hall was so convincing
when he talked like when hit the boy
and threatened to throw to the hole?
Yes, sir. I think in both Sometimes he worked the same way.
Nothing more.
This is one of the tests most important we have.
Sergeant Pahnke, please, Do you want to read this?
- Out loud? - Yes, please be heard.
"Attention, comrades, partners in division 24,
I speak on behalf of everyone those who are under my command.
As prisoners we have learned the truth about you
since they captured us.
We ask you to give up immediately.
Turn your weapons against the officers who are directing them
in this war unfair and murderous. "
- Signed? - "Edward W. Hall, son."
Aloud.
"Edward W. Hall, son, infantry captain, division 24 ".
- The prosecutor has no more questions. - The defense wants to ask.
Sergeant Panhke ... I'm sorry, is Panhke or Pinhke?
- Panhke, sir. - Thank you, sergeant. Where was he born?
- I was born in Campbell. - Let's see, sergeant,
How do you know that Captain Hall signed that?
How do I know?
Yes, he doesn't think it could be a forged signature?
- Do not. - No?
We would have to be a graphologist Very expert to ensure it. Is it?
No, but I know it's his signature because he told me.
- Are you sure he told you? - Yes, sir.
I forced myself to sign it
and threatened to punish me If I refused.
Did you sign?
It goes against my principles.
`` Captain Hall order '' to be punished?
- Not me. - No, I see it.
I had seen the defendant before I asked him to sign the manifesto?
Yes, I saw him once. When he made the announcement of the manifesto.
But since I announced the manifesto until I asked him to sign it,
You say you didn't see him Why?
Because after the conference disappeared
And how long did that disappearance last?
I would say ... I'm not sure, 4 � 6 months.
- Do you know where he was? - Do not.
So he doesn't know under what Circumstances signed the manifesto.
I appreciated some difference in his appearance when I saw him again?
- Yes. - Would you say it was unrecognizable?
Yes He looked scared.
I had seen a state before horror like that in someone?
Yes, I saw it a few years before. I was very young.
- In Dahau. - Dahau, German crime camp.
I protest, I am suggesting that the American countryside was a countryside
- Of crimes like Dahau? - It is accepted.
There are no more questions.
Proceed the witness to take an oath
Raise your right hand.
He swears that everything he declares to be the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, with God's help?
- I swear. - You can sit down.
Say your name, graduation and military body.
John R. Miller, army captain of Earth.
- Captain Miller, do you know the defendant? - Of course I know that traitor.
I protest. It is inadmissible That test.
The protest accepted.
Just answer the questions without exposing your opinion.
Captain Miller, being you prisoner of war in Korea,
specifically in Piokton, it was part of the reactionary group?
- Yes. - What was a reactionary doing there?
Create problems. It was a concern constant for koreans.
- Were you many? - There were several groups?
In mine we were 20 men and certainly no traitor like Hall.
- I protest! - The protest is accepted.
He existed in his prison camp a leak commission?
Yes, there was.
- And you were the boss. - Yes.
Dangerous matter, isn't it?
- Someone had to take over. - A position for a brave man.
Why did I accept that responsibility?
Because I didn't like it the treatment he was the subject of.
- You managed to escape. - Yes, but they captured me again.
- Why didn't he get away? - There was someone who denounced me.
- How did you know? - I saw a report.
- Signed by who? - For Captain Hall!
I know your signature well.
Captain, in addition to frustrating your escape, yours and two men,
because it was a group of three, right?
Yes, I was accompanied by sergeants Scalpon and Jorgensen.
In addition to frustrating your escape, what must have been a hard blow,
The report the defendant gave had other repercussions on you?
- They killed Scalpon. - Did you resist?
- Yes. - And what happened to you?
Sergeant Jorgensen and us they took to a house called
"Pak's palace".
I wish he told the court what happened in "Pak's palace".
Well, we were held incommunicado.
They soon began the interrogations.
They wanted to know the names of those who planned to escape.
They were interrogating me all day long
Maybe more, I don't know.
- Then Pak started. - Then Pak started?
Who was Pak?
Among those men He was the boss. A psychiatrist.
- I ordered them to chain me. - Did his hands or feet chain him?
The feet.
They tightened the chains to the maximum.
My ankles began to bleed.
They kept squeezing Until you reach the bone.
Then they undressed me and they hung me from a roof beam,
but they hung me upside down As if it were a pig.
Then one of them He began to whip me.
Did you lose knowledge?
It may be, but it would only be a moment, because I vaguely remember
They were wetting my face.
What did you tell them?
I was enraged. I told them things They didn't need to translate.
What else did they do to him?
Pak told his men that no don't put out cigarettes
on the ground, they could Do it on my body.
- And they did, right? - Yes.
- How many times? - They smoked a lot.
Captain, what happened to you Sergeant Jorgensen?
- They also subjected him to torture? - Yes, his thing happened.
They broke his jaw with the butt of a rifle.
- Then they were taken back to the field. - Yes,
but they kept us apart. Then we didn't have such a bad time.
When they were torturing him, �Pak and his henchmen managed
tear the names of the Who had managed to escape?
Didn't you reveal anything to them?
Yes, My name, graduation and number!
Did they mistreat you after that?
No, never again.
Although his body was brutally wounded,
resisted to the limit of his forces the penalties imposed, right?
Yes
Captain, you would be so kind to take off your shoes,
the socks and shirt
and show the footprints to the court of the tortures that ...?
I protest!
Tortures that are the result of the information given by the accused.
- I protest! - The protest is rejected.
It is proof of declaration of the witness.
Wake up, It is dawning.
It is not possible that it is so late. Where have you been?
Over there What do you carry in that package?
Clean shirts, I thought that you would need.
Oh thanks. How about home? I find you worse.
I didn't even try last night dinner.
- I didn't see dad in the living room. - Suffer a lot, Ed.
I understand, he has made you come To take me home
- A full-fledged reconciliation. - He doesn't know I've come.
Already. So you came to bring me this. Do you want to have a drink?
- It's not a bad idea. - Let's go up to my room.
Come on.
I liked that wrinkle of yours. Prove that I am still a man.
Don't worry, if the concierge Say something I will tell you that you are my sister.
Over here.
All right.
All right.
- All I have is whiskey. - I don't feel like it.
- You said you'd have a drink. - Yes, but then.
Well, as you want.
I have come because I have Something to tell you.
- The shirt thing is a pretext. - What is it about?
Today in the room you said no ...
How long have you been married to Peter?
I never imagined that he dared to ask you ... we were both embarrassing.
I know, but I haven't come To talk about Peter.
You should get married again With a good boy.
Once I found myself before An old abandoned farm.
I saw a very curious thing: apple trees They knew it was abandoned.
However they flourished as always.
The trees were full of fruits.
But nobody picked the apples.
Do you understand?
- You have changed conversations. - No, you have not understood me.
I want to say that apple trees
they were still alive despite that nobody picked apples.
Oh my god! What a horror, A life that does not take advantage!
Tell me, this seems logical to miss A life this way?
Do not speak. We have to End that hiccup.
- With a glass of water? - No, that's better.
- You hurt me. - It has to hurt you.
Take a breath and hold your breath. Didn't you hear me?
- Now you're not in court. - I don't like that ...!
I told you not to breathe!
Although during the trial you did not say Nothing, I guessed what you thought
by the way you sit, and I don't understand How do you accept what they say about you?
Why do you say that?
The hiccup will not pass you over If you keep talking
- I have no hiccups! - Yes, you still have.
What you did, you would do for some reason.
If you say it in court, It may be favorable.
You changed there because You think you're more human now.
But humans can Do something more than collapse.
Humans They also fight.
Why don't you fight now? Before You did it because they sent it to you.
Now you have to do it because you want.
He passed the hiccups.
It's late, I have to go.
Will you be there tomorrow?
- In agreement. - Bye.
- Thank you. - Bye.
Order in the room.
Keep silence.
The advice is resumed.
All the jurors They are present in this session.
The accusation has nothing to add for now.
The defense wishes to expose Your first report.
Do you have copies of the telegrams included in the summary as evidence.
They are from the general in chief and other senior officers.
They testify to the behavior from Captain Hall.
It follows that the accused he is a military man who has distinguished himself
for his behavior and that is considered by his superiors
Like a courageous man. Hold That is worthy of those concepts.
All our laws are based in principles that we believe immutable.
One of them is that there is a level determined moral
that society is obliged to respect.
But we have reached a point in which this moral level
they don't recognize it anymore All the men.
Because a part of humanity he has banished it,
replacing it with violence and the torture,
not of the flesh, but of the mind, To get what you want.
We are willing to judge a man
that committed certain acts
under the influence of this new moral situation in which the mind
is subject to a constant torture that knows no mercy.
Our military code does not collect this new situation
because it was not planned.
And Captain Hall, for being a of his first victims,
has to be judged With the current laws.
We all know that resistance of each human being
It has a limit in its processes of depression.
And that without suffering bodily harm that limit can be reached.
The defendant reached that point.
Therefore, even if he does not have denied participation
in the acts that are judged in this advice,
he denies that he did voluntarily, deliberately
or consciously.
I think few of us would have resisted in those circumstances.
As the only person familiar with the facts is the defendant himself,
you want to present to the court your testimony
�You know exactly the accused your witness obligations
and that everything I declare Can it be used against you?
Those obligations have been exposed and agree with them.
Then proceed To take an oath.
The defense requests as a witness to captain Edward W. Hall.
Raise your right hand.
He swears what he says in this advice It will be the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth with God's help?
- I swear. - Sit down, captain.
Say your name, grade and destination or current situation.
Edward W. Hall, captain, detachment of patients, Letterman Hospital.
- Are you the one accused of this advice? - Yes, sir.
Captain, I wish you mentally back on the day of his capture, January 2, 1951.
That day you and many prisoners they undertook a long march,
that would conclude several days later in field number 5.
He wants to tell us what Do you remember that day?
Sure, I remember it was cold.
Why do you keep that impression? so particular?
Because they had broken my pants on a fence
last night and the wind came through the holes.
The boys laughed, but soon They stopped doing it and even talking.
- What was it due to? - Some began to die.
Many were exhausted, Other injured
You were also hurt, Right?
Yes, on one leg he had lodged a piece of shrapnel.
The wounded had to drag them on sleds.
A boy who was close to me It had a huge hole in its belly.
They tried to cover it, but the bandages fell off and ...
Well, although anyone could see that he was dead,
the others were still on the sled anyway.
Then the Chinese stopped the column and they screamed
saying we were Slowly and hurry up.
But dragging the sleds It was not possible to do so.
- Did they give any solution? - Yes,
they said to all of the Sleds buried them.
It means to those who had died?
No, not just them. There was...
a lieutenant who tried to explain that the boy who took care of his group
He was not dead yet.
They gave him a hoe and forced him To dig two graves.
One for the sled boy and another for him.
- Did the lieutenant do what they said? - Yes, they put him in a gun.
I dug the graves.
And he said to his guardian: "In my land such a thing would be murder. "
And after spitting at the guard in the face made us a farewell gesture
and prayed a prayer.
Follow.
He was shot in the neck and collapsed.
Is that true after this? you picked up an injured officer
and charged with him for 4 days so they wouldn't kill him?
They healed his leg when did I get to the field?
No. They locked us in a barracks and they left us there.
In general, how they were you health?
No good. They only gave us wheat to eat And bad.
When talking about barracks, which one did he mean exactly?
That of the officers, they had us separated from the soldiers.
Could you communicate? with them?
No, officially not.
But I managed to know they were in frightening conditions
and that young people died.
I knew they ate what we and that none of us got sick,
I wanted to see what happened and I went one afternoon to visit them.
How did you manage to do it?
I bribed the jailer, I gave him my ration.
What did you discover when visiting the barracks of the soldiers?
What I saw was that they were full pigsty Of a smell that was nauseous.
There was no discipline, no command, no authority
And it was true what they had told me of the youngest, they were dejected.
It was a pathetic picture, They didn't want to eat or drink.
Those boys were sunk
I went to one of them and said: "Do you want to die?" And he told me yes
and leave him alone.
I rebuked him, slapped him and told him That would throw him into the hole.
Why did he do it?
I thought the irritation would force him to get up.
Why did he want me to get up?
Because I had the strange idea that Standing, a man does not die.
In other words, you wanted to give We encourage you to continue living
and not recreate by attacking him brutally as the accusation
- He has implied. - Yes, sir.
Tell me, captain, Did you get your purpose?
Well, some of those who were there They got up and started hitting me.
- Did the incident originate a fight? - Yes, of course.
I didn't think they had strength, but they got me into the yard.
What happened next of that mishap?
Instead of letting me go to the barracks, The Chinese took me to their barracks.
They circulated the news I was going to work for them.
And they tried to make me fat to See that he received a favor deal.
They asked me to distribute propaganda and accepted,
because it was the only way to Get in touch with the soldiers.
I got them to trust me the writing of the texts.
Why the reason?
I thought that by doing them, I would get that look fake,
I wanted to make the soldiers understand who did not believe in such patrons.
That was the reason I used the phrase "I feel happy and happy"?
Yes, I thought that with it It gave him a sarcastic tone.
From what you have just stated, it follows how much the boy incident
like the propaganda he distributed they agreed
With his military duties.
Despite appearances, it drove His behavior a high ideal.
We understand that after the propaganda distribution,
disappeared for 6 months and then it changed again.
It was at that time when it threatened to the soldiers to sign
the manifest of the surrender of form that many would consider him a traitor?
He realized that by doing did that violate military norms?
- Are you defending me? - What motives drove him?
- Were they still high ideals? - High ideals?
What were the reasons, I tried to comply with military ordinances?
So they had changed the reasons, right?
You had also changed. Did you do all that voluntarily?
- Do not. - Deliberately?
- Do not. - Consciously?
You have changed, captain, Or had they changed them?
�It is not true that he was tormented during those six months
to the point that it is no longer Did you have your own will?
What did they do to you, captain?
They had me isolated.
- They had him isolated. Where? - In a quartet of a cellar.
How was that room?
Dark.
Water leaked and the ground was damp,
except in a small place and that was where he slept.
Every morning they entered a bucket and some rags
to clean it up. It was when they let me move.
- Did they allow you to do something else? - Do not.
He had to be sitting in the Darkness unable to support your back.
How long did they have it?
I do not know.
It started a few days later
to solve problems mentally and sing some songs
I remembered from school to entertain me
But they didn't let me go on, They said it made a lot of noise.
What happened next?
Then they gave me paper and a candle saying I could write
If I did it on myself.
They continued to question him during this period?
Yes, they entered at midnight, When I tried to sleep.
What did they want?
I wanted him to sign that leaflet of surrender.
And he signed it?
I resisted for a long time.
What happened during that long time?
They had me in the basement. One night they went to look for me.
I had to walk through the snow.
I was ice cream, I felt nothing I didn't even know what was happening to me.
So, over a puddle,
They said I had to sign them that leaflet,
or I would spend only the rest of my life.
- Did he sign it? - Do not.
Did you get punished?
Yes, they locked me in the basement again.
They no longer wore rags To clean the floor.
It was all a huge puddle and when I wanted to sleep
I had to throw it out in the dirt
My members were numb and the dirt pours me to the bone.
It was like being buried in life.
They were approaching the skylight
and they told me that if I liked it being alone.
I had to bite my tongue not to answer
I don't know how long I was there.
So, I remember one night, one voice said he had a letter for me.
At first I ...
I didn't believe them, because nobody wrote to me or destroyed the letters.
They told me it was because ...
Why?
Because nobody remembered me.
What did that letter say?
Was...
A very short letter. It was from my father.
I was wondering why I hadn't written to him again.
And that was all?
Do not.
I said ...
He said ... He said my brother Peter was dead
and at that moment I understood that I couldn't anymore.
I was sad and something said a voice of some blankets and a place to sleep.
He said that, or signed then the leaflet,
or I would spend only the rest of my life.
And I said okay, yes.
I told them to tell me what I had to do.
Bacteriological warfare, propaganda, drug trafficking, whatever they would like
in exchange for not following alone and be able to sleep for a few hours.
Then they took me out,
they gave me a pen and signed everything.
In other words, you collapsed.
Yes
Among the things I signed the night of its collapse,
there was an informative note about Miller's escape project,
- Is it or isn't it? - Yes.
It is not true that there was have you been locked up for 6 months
and that it was humanly impossible I was aware of the plans
- Leaking Captain Miller? - Yes.
Captain, he said that when I was in the basement,
they gave him a day paper and a candle to write about himself.
It was about writing an autobiography?
- Yes. - How was it? Could you remember her?
When I was young I worked like buttons in an office,
washing dishes and washing cars.
I lit floors, I did everything.
I couldn't fool them, They always knew.
�Wrote during your isolation What they now call "your manifesto"?
Yes, I wrote a 20. They forced me.
If I forgot anything or add something new,
they told me what a lie and they forced me to write again.
What did they propose with all that, do you suppose
I think they wanted to find out of my life.
In order to use some detail against you, right?
Some special thing that could demoralize him.
And finally he gave them the key, Right?
Finally you provided them What they were looking for.
Here I have the A test of defense, identified, accepted
and included in the summary, Captain Hall
Is it an authentic copy or not? of his autobiography,
of which he wrote the night he they locked him in the basement again?
Where did he get that from?
It is not true as before of receiving the letter announcing
the death of his brother, every time who presented the leaflet
refused to sign it?
I have underlined a paragraph to read it yourself.
He wants to read it out loud for the court to hear?
- No, I do not want to. - Page 17. Read it, please.
No I can not.
� Consider that document part of the testimony?
- Yes, that's right. - The witness is obliged to read it.
"Being still a child, I remember that our house was ... "
Nothing is heard. Remove that hand from the mouth.
"... a place where you could barely talk and you had to close the doors
very carefully, Because my mother was sick.
It was a sad time for Peter and for me.
We longed for our mother He will heal so he can be with her.
But then he died. After We had nothing left of that.
I was 12 when it happened.
My father was in the barracks Busy almost all the time.
He left us a detailed note leaving with many warnings
and the maid gave us a star every day if we had been good
and my father checked The stars coming back.
He taught us many things that all soldiers should know:
how to have a clean room, comply Orders and never complain.
I can't remember ...
I do not succeed to ... I can't remember ...
that my father would give us Someday kiss,
to hug us ... "
"To hug us as we see that sometimes they did the other parents.
He never showed us affection and arrived To be so stubborn with myself
as he was. I think I can no longer love nobody again.
I loved my mother, but she doesn't exist anymore. I loved my brother, but he died.
I wish my father would have given me an opportunity to show you
How I loved him.
If that loneliness manages to kill me, I wish it was now. "
He wants the defense That the advice be postponed?
No, sir, there is no need.
This gentlemen has been A new method.
There was no brainwashing, They didn't use drugs.
They did not try to annihilate him the brain but
neither did they try to avoid him No suffering
In Captain Hall we have a soldier
whose service sheet allowed assume that he was able
of enduring any physical pain with fortitude,
however, this soldier, subjected to mental torture that made him suffer,
He couldn't resist it.
It is a process of gradual application.
First an atmosphere is created of terror and uncertainty,
then heads away, attacking health and morale.
Spies are introduced among the prisoners
and if there are not, it is made to believe somehow they exist.
They make an army a school ghost and they get the soldiers
become anxious children of reward and fearful of punishment,
forcing them to be alone and to be distrustful.
Then they choose the loneliest,
to destroy him even more.
They make him believe that only They can forgive you and help you.
Find out after his secret more intimate,
and once discovered, they make use of it.
We all have our secret.
The defense is over.
It's 4 o'clock. With the permission of the court, the accusation will not interrogate the accused
- See you tomorrow morning. - The council is postponed until tomorrow.
- What do you want? - Talk to you a little.
- It is late. - It will only be a moment.
I don't intend to entertain you much. Please.
In agreement.
Enters.
- No, I'm fine here. - Grant me the attention of entering.
This ... is difficult for me, you will understand.
Good, What do you want to talk to me about?
Of what you have read in court. From that autobiography.
- It made me think a lot. - He wrote it more than 3 years ago.
Yes, I understand.
But it is quite a matter prickly anyway.
You said about me things that I myself I ignored. You have crushed me.
It has been a real dissection.
But when one discovers how it is in reality in the eyes of their children ...
I guess Peter would feel it Same for me. So it was, right?
It was like that.
How much I have lost.
It has been a hard lesson. And I suppose
that your mother believed that I didn't want her either, huh?
Well, tomorrow is the last day, right?
You ... think back home telling With everything ending well.
We wait for you, of course.
Thank you.
This is always going to exist distance between us?
I do not know.
So what can I do?
I have to lose you at three?
Please tell me What can I do?
You have to give in. Please, you have to try.
Is that all you want?
Oh God, God ...
Captain, during the period of isolation that I described yesterday,
Did they torment him or beat him?
I mean that if he was subjected to some kind of physical torture.
�When they interrogated him, he was always in unfavorable conditions?
Yes
He gave the report accordingly from Captain Miller.
- I ignored that he had run away. - It doesn't matter if I knew it or not.
Sign a document knowingly What did he mean?
A document that could be used for the enemy to break
- The mood of those who wanted to flee? - Yes, I did.
- How many officers were in the field? - About 70.
Some of them signed documents, did you advertise or threaten others?
Not that I know.
It is not true that most of the officers, when asked
that will collaborate voluntarily, they gave only their affiliation,
as they were taught what would they do?
How did Captain Miller do to be tortured
Yes, I think so.
It is not true that those who they had with the enemy
Only the indispensable contact, allowed by ordinances,
that did not give facilities to the Chinese, no test opportunities,
- They spent their captivity better? - Yes.
In other words, captain, all the penalties that I endured
They were a consequence of their actions. He was willing to collaborate,
- Isn't it true? - Maybe.
It is possible, of course, that at the beginning had honorable reasons,
- Was it like that or not? - Yes.
Despite his good intentions, you have been one of the few officers
that has lent itself to betray To his homeland.
- I protest! - The protest is accepted.
Very good.
Now let's examine what has been called here "its collapse",
the process of his deep depression,
as the defense has qualified poetically.
He judges his resistance Did you reach the limit?
- Yes. - What was the cause?
We know they gave him some Feeding, right?
Yes
- Was it because he was dying of cold? - Do not.
- Or because of the pain in the leg? - Do not.
- The risk of death? - They said he was a war criminal.
- Once they said they were going to kill me. - They threatened to execute him?
That was never notified. Do not.
No. And, of course, we know it lacked of some amenities,
- But that wouldn't force him to give up. - How did he say? Comforts?
No one had comfort, we know.
No. It was none of those causes. What forced him to crumble
It was only loneliness. Isn't that what you said?
I think that issue of loneliness It is an interesting detail.
If you think we will examine it together...
Can I drink some water?
Clear.
- Thank you. - You are welcome.
Captain, can you quote me some other special moment when loneliness
it became unbearable before That was sent to Korea?
- Do you mean a day of grief? - Yes, that is.
Well, I don't know. A few days would be Better than the others, I guess.
Do not remember if there was a day when loneliness was so heinous
- Who couldn't resist it? - Seems to refer to physical pain.
- Someday it would be unbearable. - What do you mean?
What has been the day of greatest loneliness that you remember?
- The day my mother died. - The day your mother died.
We have read in your autobiography that the Chinese forced him to write
and they realized that it was you a very lonely child
- And they took advantage of it, right? - I recognized that I was always alone.
- Did you recognize him before himself? - Yes, and for the first time.
Until that moment, there was never said to himself
- "Ed, frankly, I'm alone." - Yes, I had.
Well, since I knew, It was not a new thing for you.
Why did you go to choose just that night to give up?
I don't choose it!
It was the night I knew The death of my brother.
- Was his name Peter? - Yes, Peter.
- Did that make you feel even more alone? - Yes.
Suddenly, it made me believe That it was all over.
- It was a feeling of abandonment. - Yes, like when my mother died.
When your mother died, you I felt the same, like
If I couldn't anymore, right?
But then he saw that he could resist it and continued living.
He had to do it.
And he couldn't do it too after Peter's death?
- I could do it, maybe. - He could do it, maybe.
Why didn't he do it? Do you think there was reached the limit of its resistance?
Or just afraid to get to that end?
He could not have resisted a little more?
One day, one hour, one minute even?
Think about it, captain. Did you reach the limit?
Did you actually reach the limit?
No. I did not arrive.
I don't have to ask more questions.
Does the defense wish to interrogate back to the witness?
It is not necessary.
- Does the court want to question you? - No, neither.
The witness can withdraw.
Tell the defense if you want to expose Some final consideration.
Yes, it is.
Gentlemen, here I have a document whose reading is not very pleasant.
It is an enemy report which describes
certain aspects of behavior observed by some prisoners.
"One: many prisoners reveal lack of affection for their relatives,
to society or the army.
Two: as soon as they are isolated, they feel discouraged
and give up fighting to survive because they have lost faith in themselves. "
Keep telling the report that until university training soldiers
they have precarious knowledge of American history
and of the advantages and disadvantages of democracy.
Add that many of them they have no idea of communism,
because nobody has bothered of trying to instill it.
The entire propaganda program of the enemy
has been based on all These insights.
And in some cases it was successful, because what was observed was true.
Now we are judging to Captain Hall.
Gentlemen, guilt, if any, Who has it?
Only the few who claudicated under pressure like him?
We won't have something, at least everyone those that we have contributed to form
so to this generation, capable of collapse, weak, ill-disposed,
as in the case of Captain Hall, lacking resources
to resist to the limit, because I had not received the love
What should I hold him to the end?
Now, at the time of judging him,
we must ask ourselves if we have not taken part in the moral collapse
of this man who has passed for two wars in his youth
and who has suffered captivity in some conditions that none of us
We have met so far.
Thank you.
He has something to object to accusation to these arguments?
Gentlemen, in response as stated,
I must say that in certain aspects society can be considered
effectively responsible of the offender and his fault.
But society is not exempted of duty and responsibility
to subdue the offender to the action of justice.
Lend to collaborate with the enemy in time of war
it's a crime. And it is so planned in laws like murder.
The defense has only A legal argument.
An argument that will interest both to the public and to the press:
the moral collapse. Which It certainly has existed.
But in this case, The facts are clear.
The penalties have been described by the accused.
It wasn't they who took him to moral collapse.
Captain Hall is an officer responsible with command
Who has collaborated with the enemy.
I tried to persuade the troops in front of them to surrender.
I was willing to inform About the prisoners.
I tried to convince others to collaborate with him.
Disobeying the orders of not give more than
the name, grade and number, and in doing this
favored our enemies.
If they declare Captain Hall innocent of these accusations
must declare guilty of stupidity to all Americans
They refused to collaborate.
The testimonies have shown
that Captain Hall is guilty of the charges attributed to him.
The court withdraws to start the deliberations.
� Can I wait for the verdict with you?
- Sure, if you want. - I would like it.
In agreement. We will smoke a cigarette.
- Where is Aggie? - Outside. He has not resisted anymore.
- Excuse me, captain. - Commander,
I present to my father, Colonel Hall
- At your service. - Commander.
- Excuse me. - It's your duty.
- Frank. My father, Colonel Hall. - Delighted, sir.
I want to thank you For the defense of my son.
You are understanding, colonel.
I think I'm understanding something more since I've met Ed.
- Do you have children? - Three.
I wonder if they are so incomprehensible for you as they have been for me.
Who understands the children? I'll see you later.
Come on?
- Don't cry alone. - I'm not crying.
- Are we going to take a breath? - It's fine.
Go you I will stay here.
Order in the room. Silence please.
The session is resumed.
All court components that were present
by interrupting the session, They are in the living room again.
Sit the accused in front of the court
Captain Edward W. Hall, it is my duty inform you as chairman of the council
that the court met in session secret and by voting
two thirds of the votes of the members present
have agreed to declare to you,
in relation to the charges and specifications,
guilty, with the exception of charge of incitement to surrender.
Of that charge, the council considers him not guilty.
Before the council ends in the case of Captain Hall,
you are notified that this time can expose the circumstances
mitigating before if read sentence.
I will speak under oath. - All right. He is still under oath.
What I wish to expose will not be� a mitigating, but I want to say it.
Captain Miller was at my hotel This early morning.
He is the witness who suffered torture.
He said he had read the documents, who had witnessed my statement
and that he wanted to talk to me. We sit and talk
about the companions of captivity that we had
He said that, in his opinion, all beings they have in their life
A decisive moment.
If they choose correctly, They feel proud then.
If they choose to make a mistake,
a remorse invades them that I will no longer abandon you in your life.
I want every soldier,
I want all people to feel what I feel now.
Because if so, they would understand what what does it mean for a man
have betrayed his homeland,
spoiling a moment Of pride and glory.
I pray to God that all
They are right to choose.
A.M
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